A few weeks ago, I posted that the Facebook demographics are getting older every day and posited a few implications: Facebook may be around awhile. Facebook will continue to become the killer application more and more. There is hope for fundraising on Facebook. If you want to read more of my thinking on these implications, [...]
Read more...Michael Hoffman over at See3 had a great blog post yesterday – Viral Video for Nonprofits – A Rethinking. You should read it. No really, you should. Ok, now that you’ve hopefully read it, think about what that means for your organization — have you fallen to the “siren song of viral?” As nonprofits are [...]
Read more...While I am very bullish on Facebook as a platform for engagement, I’m a bit more bearish about its ability to solicit donations. The poster-child for donations on Facebook is the Causes application. Last week, the Causes folks posted that the application has passed $10 million in fundraising in two years. For this they should [...]
Read more...Clay Shirky, professor, speaker and author of the new book Here Comes Everybody, gave a TED Talk last month entitled “How Twitter can make history.” He focuses on Twitter specifically, but it’s clear the general framework of what he talks about is much more about the broad implications of social media. It’s a great presentation [...]
Read more...The shifting demographics of Facebook There have been a plethora of articles in the last few days about the shifting demographics of Facebook. To quote one such article: …Facebook’s seen its 35-54 demo membership blow up by 276.4 percent between June 2008 and January 2009. The 55-and over contingent grew 194.3 percent in the same [...]
Read more...Twitter. It’s all a buzz. Maybe you’re asking yourself the question that many are – “but what really is Twitter?” Mashable comes to the rescue with Top 7 Twitter Tutorials on YouTube. Check it out. And if you’re feeling especially lazy, I’ve grabbed one of those tutorials and placed it just below. Happy tweeting.
Read more...Megan points us to an interesting article on the NonProfit Times website — Social Networks Are Red Hot, Web Sites Are Diddlysquat. Great article. You should check it out. Here’s one takeaway…. Beware the siren song of social media. In NO WAY am I encouraging you to ignore social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and a [...]
Read more...The mainstreaming of Twitter It’s official — Twitter is mainstream. While the microblogging service has been around since 2006, it’s just now reaching mass appeal. Case in point — last week saw a well-publicized “battle” between Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) and television network CNN (@cnnbrk) to see who would be the first to one million followers [...]
Read more...In January, we gave a webinar on Following Conversations in a Web 2.0 World. It was one of our most popular to date. But just knowing the conversation is happening on the web likely isn’t enough to get busy people like you and I to do something about it. A few weeks later, Beth Kanter [...]
Read more...Following Conversations in a Web 2.0 World People are talking about you every day – are you listening? Tune in to learn how to keep up with various “conversations” on the web – conversations about you! Download Presentation Slides Watch presentation
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