If you missed The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s June 23 online discussion Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes, the transcript is now available. The discussion featured:
Danielle Brigida, the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization’s voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, [...]
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This Tuesday The Chronicle of Philanthropy will host another free online discussion about how nonprofits can use social media. The speakers include:
Danielle Brigida, the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization’s voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon.
Wendy Harman, the [...]
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Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus’ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.” Although Karen’s advice was [...]
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The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has posted the application for the 2009 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.
The Drucker Award is given to a social-sector organization that demonstrates "change that creates a new dimension of performance. In addition, the judges look for programs that are highly effective and that have made a [...]
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This is such a lame phishing scam that I can’t imagine anyone falling for it. But I received three of these messages in the past two days so I’m passing it along. I reported this account to Google, so I hope they’ll disable it.
Dear Webmail User,
This message was sent automatically by a program [...]
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Heather Carpenter’s Nonprofit Leadership 601 blog posted a list of resources for people who are new to the field of nonprofit technolology.
This post lists books, reports, Web sites, blogs, and conferences that nonprofit techies — and not just those newbies — should know about.
We’re happy that TechSoup is listed right at the top of the [...]
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This post was inspired by my colleague Kris Putnam’s advice for new consultants (So, You Want To Be A Philanthropy Consultant? and Starting A Consulting Business? 15 Things To Do Right Now). I received the following via CharityChannel’s Consultants forum in 2003. I was just completing my first year as a [...]
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The good news from the annual GivingUSA report (PDF) on U.S. philanthropy is that total giving for 2008 was estimated to have exceeded $300 billion for the second year in a row, for a total of $307.65 billion. But, unfortunately, most of the news was bad. This was a two percent drop in [...]
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As I mentioned last week, the Chronicle of Philanthropy held a live online discussion about how nonprofits can use social networks to promote their organizations.
On the panel, was Danielle Brigida, social-media-outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation; marketing and communications consultant Nancy E. Schwartz; and Felicia Carr, director of online communications for the National Parks [...]
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy is holding another in its series of free online discussions on Tuesday, June 2 (tomorrow). Here are the details:
What: Promoting Causes on Online Social Networks
When: Tuesday, June 2, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern
Cost: Free
Where: Online. Questions are submitted via keyboard, and answers come the same way. The discussion will [...]
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