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725 posts on careers, communication, technology and civic life, since 2005.
Our client JUST CAUSE just launched their magazine, but digitally! Back in 2007 we worked with the Seattle based team behind JustCause to create a social media and networking website for people working to make their communities and the wold a better place. From their announcement: JUST CAUSE Magazine is now available to you in 2 formats.
I like many others was completely blown away by Paul Hawken’s Blessed Unrest . The last 3rd of the book is a compendium of non profit and non governmental organizations around the world that are working on social justice, human rights, sustainability, environmental and indigenous people’s issues as well as many others. Hawken’s describes these groups collectively as a movement, the largest movement in the history of the world. A movement that is decentralized and global.
I’ve previously written about how organizations can start Tweeting , and last week found a great primer on using Twitter for Activism. The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism is a concise and informative guide that any organization looking to evaluate or deploy a Twitter strategy should read. While it is geared towards activism I think that most non profits would find it helpful.
This week I came across three interesting articles that deal with non profits, website usability and donations. Taken together, I think they can be useful and instructive to non profit organizations working on developing new websites or optimizing existing websites and communication strategies.
It seems that every year there are more and more sessions at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), and it is harder and harder to decide which sessions to attend.
Last week Mashable ran a blog post about the increasing budgets for social media marketing at big businesses. It was based on a report by the Aberdeen Groups covered in more detail on EMarketer.com . The report had two important findings: 63% of best in class businesses surveyed said they would be increasing their social media marketing budgets, 21% said by 25% or more.
In Developing A Personal Email Management Strategy I discussed the sorting, filtering and processing of the seemingly endless flow of email I receive. Recently, I took the plunge and converted my non work email to IMAP in preparation for converting work email to the same. The goal is to be able to see important direct email on my iPhone without seeing all the list traffic, commercial communications and other solicited bulk email.
At DrupalCon DC 2009 I co-presented a Panel with Ben Flinklea from Volacci and Greg Knaddison from Growing Venture Solutions . Here is our slide deck from the presentation , and a link to the SEO Presentation video .
For many years now I (and then CivicActions) have been a member of NTEN (The Nonprofit Technology Entrepreneurs Network) . Every year NTEN runs the Nonprofit Technology Conference ( NTC ) an event that brings together NPTech providers and non profits.
Back in January I posted a blog about my carbon footprint for 2007 . With 36 flights spanning nearly 70,000 miles, I had calculate my carbon footprint at a little bit more than 14 tons of CO2, turns out I had some bad numbers in there and overestimated it by maybe 2 or 3 tons.