Legacy Milestones
August 20th, 2010 Social Networks vs. Real Life Networks
August 20th, 2010 There is no end to the challenges of social media for nonprofits. How can we keep our personal and professional lives separate online? How can we identify the “influencers”? Which social media tools are best? Here, Paul Adams, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, shares his team’s insights into how people actually connect and behave online….(read more)
Reflections on Twitter Chat Facilitation Techniques
August 19th, 2010 Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in Twitter chat series #socialmedia. It’s been a one-hour weekly chat on Twitter for the past 10 months organized and hosted by Marc Meyer and Jason Breed. The way it works is they invite a “host” to ask 3 compelling questions, 20 minutes each, that revolve around a topical subject within the business of social media, but that play to their strengths or backgrounds.
As host
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LightWord
August 19th, 2010 Simply clever theme with two or three columns, adsense support, fixed-width, widget-ready and threaded comments. Compatible with WordPress 2.8+ (including 2.9.x), valid XHTML & CSS. Cufon text replacement is back!
In Defence of Jargon
August 18th, 2010 The buzzwords of business-speak have evolved, in part, as a shorthand way of letting us refer to complex ideas with just a few words. Annoying as the overuse of jargon may be, the specialized language of the nonprofit sector may actually serve a useful purpose….(read more)
Top 35 WordPress CMS Plugins
August 15th, 2010 Review of 35 WordPress plugins that will make wordpress better suite for CMS. Great plugins that can make wordpress fit for your NGO or Non-profit.
Emergency Social Data Summit: We Can All Participate Remotely
August 13th, 2010 The Red Cross is hosting the Emergency Social Data Summit today Thursday, August 12, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM (ET). This is a hybrid event which means you don’t have to be in Washington, DC to participate.
You can participate remotely. There are two ways:
