Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bethemedia, bethkanter, blogging, friendfeed, twitter, utterz on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve got very little time to spare these days and for the next little while, as we are fast approaching the date of my organization’s major event on Sunday, August 3, at the same time as we are getting ready to launch our new website (about to launch in beta in about ten days - [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, chrisbrogan, blog, capecod, geekgirlcamp on April 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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I gave a presentation on blogging — should you blog? why and how? — at Geek Girl Camp Cape Cod Thursday night. It was a first-time event, this Geek Girl Camp thing, and so it was hard to know quite what to expect.
I knew that it was sold out. There were [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, brianoberkirk, georgecolony, jeremiahowyang, policy, socialmedia on April 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
More organizations are making the move into social media, either by starting a CEO blog, a customer Facebook group, or just by allowing employees to blog openly about their work lives.
As a result, more organizations are finding it necessary to draft a social media policy, or at least a set of principles, meant to guide [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, chrisbrogan, socialmedia on March 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I took a week off from writing, for several very good reasons, and now I’m back.
Miss me?
Of course you didn’t.
One of the reasons I took a brief sabbatical was my reaction to this post by Chris Brogan on what it felt like to not have a blog for eight days.
In it, he talks about how [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, readwriteweb, social media on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Check this out from Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb: “Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond“
1. I suffer from information overload already.
2. So much of what’s discussed online is meaningless. These forms of communication are shallow and make us dumber. We have real work to do!
3. I don’t have the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arts 2.0, blogging on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been hearing a lot from artists and cultural organizations that they’d like to start a blog, but they’re unsure what they should write about. They seem convinced that since a blog is a good marketing tool, it’s really just another place to put press releases and event announcements.
Not so.
Blogs are a particular type [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged americasgiving, bethkanter, blogging, twitter on February 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I was glad to see that the New York Times picked up on the final stages of the America’s Giving Challenge. The contest is over, and the cause I’ve been flogging/blogging appears to have (unofficially) emerged victorious. It’s pretty exciting, no doubt, that the Sharing Foundation is likely to receive a decent sum [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, blogs, communications, donors, nonprofit, nptech, PR, theater on January 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Do you think your organization needs a blog? Or is it just a “someday” thing — a back-burner item that you feel just has to wait until you can get more on track with fulfilling your mission, becoming better known and better respected, building your donor base, getting the press to cover you, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awards, blogging, community, conniebensen, jeremiahowyang, lenedgerly on December 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Beth Kanter, from Beth’s Blog (of course), presented the Bloggers Who Create Community Award to Small Dots!
Beth named three bloggers to receive the award — the other two are Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NpTech and Michele Martin, The Bamboo Project. If you don’t know these blogs, I strongly encourage you to check [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, facebook, myspace, nptech, social networks, techevangelism on November 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Interesting. I made a presentation on web 2.0 tools for nonprofits, mostly just touching on blogs, photosharing, and social networks. Before the presentation, I would have predicted that the most readily adopted tool would be blogging, then photosharing, then social networks.
This was based mostly on my perception of the current mainstream comfort level with these [...]
