The scene: the summer of 2009 in Tehran, Iran.
More angry protestors are beaten back by the Basiji, the Iranian regime’s oppressive militia. Neda is an innocent bystander passing through. Not even innocent bystanders are safe. A Basiji sniper bullet rips into her heart. She lays on the ground bleeding to death. Her father cries out [...]
Thank you attending Kn Moy’s and Rory Stark’s presentation on the “Age of Engage” at the Engstrom Insitute on September 24-25, 2009 in Denver, Colorado.
Here is the Download PDF of the presentation.
The following videos were also shown during the presentation:
Masterworks and Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission Multi-Channel Marketing Campaign – 1 Meal 1 Hope
Social Media Revolution
Please contact Shannon [...]
Jakob Nielsen has a great new article up on his website – Fresh vs. Familiar: How Aggressively to Redesign. For those of you who may not know Jakob, he is considered one of the world’s foremost web experts, particularly in the area of usability.
I’ll include an extended excerpt from that post here – it’s worth [...]
Megan Hawkes from Campus Crusade and I (Dave Raley) will be giving a webinar for CLA (the Christian Leadership Alliance) on Thursday, 8/27/09 at 9am PST / 12pm EST.
You can sign up online for FREE at by going to this registration page.
Here’s the CLA info about the webinar:
5 Keys to Successful New Media Campaigns:
Lessons from [...]
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 – [...]
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 amount of [...]
On Friday at 9:01pm PST, Facebook is allowing people to choose a vanity URL for their account.
So for example, instead of the URL to my Facebook page being www. facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789, it can now be www.facebook.com/daveraley. A good Facebook vanity URL will be important for organizations as Facebook becomes more and more a “hub” for their [...]
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 whole host of [...]
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 on Twitter.
Ashton [...]
Dr. Jakob Nielsen, a guru of usability known worldwide, has just released a study on Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities.
Nielsen doesn’t normally foray into nonprofit topics, and while he certainly isn’t a fundraising expert, he is a web usability expert, so when he releases a study on donation usability online, I [...]
