As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits, I've been working with grantees on a variety of capacity building projects - from coaching to workshops to peer trainings. One of the grantees I'm working with is The National Summer Learning Association and I will be doing trainings at their national conference in November. I did a TwitterChat with them to help promote the conference, but in the process discovered it was even more valuable to help design … [Read more...]
Twitter's Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause
Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I've seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. The Sharing Foundation started this Khmer Literacy program for young children of farm workers in Cambodia - that helped these children learn to read and write in their native language and enter school. I've followed Claire's work in Kenya and her passion for literacy programs - and invited her to share her … [Read more...]
How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook
How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Introduction One of the very first bloggers I started reading and having conversations with about social media was Alan Levine (aka CogDog Blog). Over the years, we have supported each other's professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person. Last year, Alan invited me to keynote the New Media Consortium's virtual conference to talk about the future of social and nonprofits. It was … [Read more...]
How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit
Note from Beth: Here's another terrific guest post from Manny Hernandez. What has been your experience getting a Wikipedia Page for your nonprofit? Guest Post by Manny Hernandez Because it was such a painfully long process and because I couldn’t find too many complete articles when I googled “Wikipedia nonprofits“, I decided to share the lessons we learned so that you may not make the same mistakes we made. Build your reputation and “notability” first No matter how important you think your … [Read more...]
Chasing the Squirrels Out of Your Email Box: Gmail Priority Inbox
I like to joke about how using social networks like Twitter can give you "ADOLAS" (ADD, Oh, look at Squirrel!). The reference is from the Disney/Pixar movie UP - the scenes where the talking dogs can't finish a sentence because they get distracted by a squirrel. I've tried to come up with some manual ways to avoid this on Twitter. For example, colleagues using the #squirrel hashtag and we remind each other to focus or suggest other techniques. But to tell you the truth, I've had a major … [Read more...]
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