Entries from April 2009

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Google goes to war!

Just across the newswires… uber-geeks from Google, Twitter, MeetUp and other high-tech companies have shipped out to Iraq.  No, seriously.
Between April 19-23, a gaggle of executives visited Iraq as part of a U.S. State Department tour.  The department said that “the executives would offer ideas on how new technologies could help foster transparency, strengthen civil [...]

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Political Online Action!

It’s election fever in British Columbia right now.   Interesting to see how the three major parties are handling their web presence…
The Green Party seems to have a pretty good handle on things – nice website with lots of useful tools and information, good presence on Facebook.  Looks like they’re using Drupal behind the scenes –  nice [...]

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Add one rhino- YouTube lessons from the Whipsnade Zoo

As a recent scientific study proves – many post content to YouTube, and very few succeed in grabbing eyeballs.  What’s the secret recipe to making your videos cook?
Here are three key ingredients to creating a terrific YouTube video for your nonprofit.  You can observe all of these at work in a video of a tremendously [...]

Monday, April 6th, 2009

European schools and social media: who’s teaching who?

Our European guest writer Sven Haertig checks out a  proposal to teach social media in British schools.  A committed human rights activist based in Warsaw, Sven is the leader of Amnesty International Poland’s international volunteer group. Want to connect with him about non-profits in Europe? You can find him on Facebook where he’s working on [...]

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Hang on to your hats

One of your editors is moving 9,500 km next week. So bear with us – we’ll be updating a bit erratically till we’re more settled:)