Posted in Uncategorized, tagged charleneli, forrester, groundswell, jeremiahowyang, joshbernoff, mountholyoke, reunion, socialmedia, strategy on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been watching Beth Kanter traipsing across the globe over the last couple of weeks, as she traveled to Australia to give some workshops and a keynote on social media for nonprofits. She’s been blogging and twittering and uploading pictures to Flickr the whole time, and I’ve checked in with her updates a couple [...]
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Jeremiah Owyang woke me up this morning (on Twitter) to a fascinating, instructive tale of a major brand getting drawn in to a major international crisis, against their will and to their detriment, and responding to it in a predictable, though shortsighted way. Somewhere, a PR department is having a very bad Sunday.
Yes, I check [...]
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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 [...]
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Brian Oberkirk’s recently posted advice to brands considering launching their own social networks (in short: don’t) has made the rounds in the nonprofit technology blogosphere, mostly thanks to the incredibly useful nptech tag (add this to your RSS feed now if you want to follow other practitioners and thinkers in this field).
It’s another volley in [...]
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There’s been a lot of discussion lately about what we mean when we talk about the importance of transparency and authenticity, as organizations doing business in social media space. Jeremiah Owyang just gave this question prominence on his web strategist blog, as part of his Social Media FAQ series.
He lists these signs that an [...]
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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 [...]
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Do social networks mostly promote inclusion or exclusion?
It depends, of course, on the user. Like The Force, social media can be used for good or ill.
And some will say that it depends on what your objectives are. I’m going to take a stand and say that inclusion - and openness - is [...]
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Thanks to all who helped me cement my ideas for my upcoming course for artists. It’s really starting to take shape - but I don’t want to write about the specifics until I have a conversation or two with the specialists I’m trying to recruit to help me pull it all together. I [...]
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Nonprofits all around us are making decisions RIGHT NOW about how to engage in social networks, and many of us in the field have to fight a desperate feeling of running hard just to keep up - the overwhelming conviction that everybody else is winning friends, donors, hearts and minds through the savvy use of social networking [...]
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I’ve been thinking about Jeremiah’s recent Utter, his post on paying yourself first and about how we get where we eventually go.
Jeremiah asks if we are moving too fast in the Social Media Sphere. My answer - for me - is (1) No, and (2) Maybe.
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As Chris Brogan urged us to recently, I took a moment to step back, [...]
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