1.What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter?
Baratunde Thurston ponders #MLK in Vanity Fair, and comes up with a solid quote: “All too often, Twitter encourages shallow understanding even from those who have your best interest at heart.”
2. Which charities spend the most on administration?
A pretty simplistic approach – the author doesn’t pick apart the different [...]
Traditionally, the roll-over into the new year is marked by a large serving of predications galore. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been digesting pundits across the blogosphere, and happily regurgitating / synthesizing their collective advice. What’s our conclusion, after all this (burp) research?
In the coming year, non-profits should…
1. Resist the Shiny Toys
This is not a good [...]
Oh, climate change. Oh, the UN. A giant concept and a giant organization, both with limited access points for the public, guaranteed 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!
Kidding. That’s an excerpt from last [...]
There’s something about the grey depressingness of Hallowe’en in Canada that brings out the zombie in everyone. Trying to make your next presentation a thriller? Need some (ahem) braaaaaains to help you through your new duties as social media champion?
Help is on the way.
First, Social Signal (full disclosure: I’m their social media strategist) has launched [...]
The wonderful Alexandra Samuel and I were both interviewed about how one goes about becoming a social media strategist – you can check out the Toronto Star version of it here.
For more advice, you might want to check out the earlier post that I wrote when I first started working at Social Signal, which links [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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:)
One day to go till I see Obama’s election campaign new media director Joe Rospars speak in Warsaw. I’m headed there with German social media activist (and Social Ch@nge guest writer) Sven Haertig. Have you got any ideas for us about what we can ask him? Email us at editor@netfornonprofits.org
Also, Social Ch@nge is working on [...]
Guest writer Sven Haertig looks at European fundraising both on and offline. 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 Amnesty International Poland’s Page, or [...]
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