From Our Brains to Yours

April 2nd, 2009

Worthy goals for using social networking

If it’s Thursday, it’s time for Three Things. This week: Three worthy goals for using social networks to help your non-profits
On Monday, Shayna had a great post: “Tools are not strategies.” So true.  As Shayna said, “Neither websites nor Twitter, not Convio nor social networks, not even email will yield results for your organization if [...]

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March 9th, 2009

Return on engagement

Sarah Evans has a great checklist over at Mashable: “Social Media for Business, The Do’s and Don’t for Sharing.”

Be transparent and authentic. Be Human – Create or join a discussion, don’t yell to a crowd.
A profile pic is worth a thousand tweets – does your pic help tell your story?
Leaving a Legacy – what you [...]

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February 11th, 2009

Returning to social media: is it worth it?

A few weeks back, I navel-gazed a bit on the value of social media for outreach vs. edutainment. I argued that it could be a force for good, but only if it’s done well and deliberately, driving toward a specific outcome.
Care2, one of the largest lists of progressive activists on the internet, has gone [...]

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January 28th, 2009

Please read this.

As the economy tumbles, organizations dependent on convincing individuals to part with hard earned cash or time are doing some navel gazing in an effort to find new ways to inspire customers, clients, donors, and activists. A popular topic of navel gazing is “indirect marketing” via social networks: does energy put into being fascinating on [...]

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