Dr. Adrienne Burk convened an amazing conference last month on behalf of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, and I was lucky enough to get a chance to speak on one of the panels. The conference was called Witnessing the World: New Possibilities for Citizenship and Social Change, and while it was [...]
You might have noticed we’ve prettied ourselves up this week at Social Ch@nge – we’ve been listening to you and changing the site to work even better for you. There’s a share button, an option to subscribe via email, reader’s comments up front where you can see ‘em, and there’s a kinder, gentler 404 page. [...]
The internet is a joy forever, but sometimes it’s not actually helpful to your workflow. Ever worked eight solid hours and then wondered where the time went? Find yourself falling down a rabbit hole of possibly useful websites? Not getting anything from your Facebook breaks?
You clearly need to enjoy the benefits of going analog. Here [...]
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 [...]
Theory is good, but real-world examples are better. I recently interviewed Danielle Brigida, Associate Operations Coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation. The NWF has done a great job of rolling out Twitter as a social media tool – both as a listening post and a place for conversations. Danielle explains…
1) Why did NWF decide to [...]
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 [...]
Budgets are an inescapable reality of non-profit life, and they’re especially important when everyone’s panicking about economic crisis. Here’s how to make a budget, and start 2009 off panic-free.
What’s a budget for?
Your organization functions on at least two kinds, a budget that covers your organization as a whole, and smaller program or project budgets. If you’re [...]
This year’s going to be different! Tackle 2009 head on by putting these five basic resolutions into practice and kiss your non-profit office headaches of 2008 goodbye.
“New Year’s Resolutions” Original Photo by Flickr user Ian Turton, CC Licensed
1) I will back up my computer every two weeks.
Computers crash, even in the new year. Back them up.
2) I [...]
You’d think with the election over, we would shut up about Obama’s internet strategy – but not so much. Because it turns out that an oft-quoted statistic about his campaign isn’t quite right. See, I went around telling everyone that small donors formed the bulk of his campaign contributions. I bragged about [...]
Everyone was all a-flutter earlier this week when Google introduced a new feature that allows you to vote search results up or down based on their accuracy and track it on a search wiki. The implication is that from now on the web will be a giant popularity contest where, if you haven’t been voted [...]
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