With the debt ceiling debate raging in our nation's capital, health care advocates have kicked into high gear and are using new social media tactics to engage elected officials in the fight to protect health care rights -- Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. Families USA is an organization fighting for affordable health care for all Americans. Their web site tools provide useful information for grassroots advocates or anyone for that matter to stay informed on health care-related … [Read more...]
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Are You Going To Adopt Google+ for Professional Learning/Networking? Why or Why Not?
What we're witnessing with the hype and geek love swirling around Google+ follows a well established pattern identified by Gartner analysts called "hype cycles." It begins with a technology trigger, followed by the peak of inflated expectations and punditry. And, of course, all the funny comics showing the demise of Twitter and Facebook anything else that stands in Google + way to getting more adoption or increasing it stock value. But remember, the platform is in its infancy and the … [Read more...]
How Networked Nonprofit Use Facebook SMARTly
How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook Smart.ly View more presentations from Beth Kanter My Facebook page is a focus group or channel for research. It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs. If don't synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my … [Read more...]
Book: A Great How-To On Creating Social Content
I picked up a copy of Content Rules by Ann Handley and CC Chapman and could not put it down. The books shares the secrets to creating good content on social channels that engages your audiences. They offer principles, how-to steps and tips, and case studies. My favorite chapter is "Reimagine: Don't Recycle: Anatomy of Content Circle of Life." Using a plant life cycle as a metaphor, they offer a framework for how to think about content that is life-giving, but also more efficient to … [Read more...]
E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism
Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project, a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here's the posts from Day 1 and Day 2) The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US … [Read more...]
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