Blogs, Youtube videos, Twitter, Powerpoint presentations: what do they have in common? Story telling.
If your non-profit is working on a social media plan, you’re going to need to think about how your non-profit tells stories. If you fundraise, you already know that the best collateral a non-profit produces are stories about their audience. Here’s an [...]
This week on Social Ch@nge we’re looking at getting visual and we need your input. How do you get the big picture across to your coworkers? Ever used mind maps, charts, brainstorming webs or stick figures to get across your strategy? When, exactly, do you need to get visual at your organization?
There are – literally [...]
It seems that there’s a bit of a thread out there on a few blogs, something in the air, a terrible question that’s being asked: are social networks actually a useful fundraising strategy?
The Pew Research Center published a report this week on the changing demographic profile of social networks. I would, ahem, modestly point out [...]
We’ve written about games and non-profits on Social Ch@nge before (and here.) Some more recent news from this front:
Electronic Arts (EA), the gaming behemoth, has entered into the fundraising world. The Xbox live version of NHL ‘09 rewards players who raise $100 for the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation by allowing them to compete in special [...]
Here’s the news you’re waking up to this morning. Reading the news any day of the week can leave you clenching your fists. But you can do more about this than shake your head while you drink your coffee. Here’s how you can do something about news that makes you angry – get online and [...]
Alex Steed’s recent connective predictions post got us at Social Ch@nge thinking about the future of technology and civil society. Here’s our predictions for 2009 and beyond, based on some of the trends we’ve been watching at Social Ch@nge this year.
1) Cells will save lives
One of the things you will surely see more of is [...]
You are a Facebook goddess, the fastest Twitter tweeter on the planet. Can you take your mad social media skillz and turn it into a job? How exactly would you describe that job?
I don’t know, but I came across a job posting the other day that seemed to sum it up for me: [...]
I’m really interested in how people that do not communicate the way I do are embracing and using the web. Using 2.0 tools, they are able to connect with their own community, and with people like me. Want to see what I mean? Check out In My Language on Youtube. When you have a tool [...]
Oh, climate change. Oh, the UN. A giant concept and a giant organisation, both with limited access points for the public, guarenteed to make you feel small, disempowered and unheard. Well, it’s that time of year again: it’s the UN Climate Change Conference, and this year it’s happening in Poland!
As a Warsaw resident, I got [...]
In the 19th century, do-it-yourself x-ray kits became popular as people x-rayed their own boots, hands, and plants (not to mention weirder stuff) to find out what the invisible world really looked like. Wired’s Alexis Madrigal has a great post about this featuring links to San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art’s Brought To Light: Photography [...]
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