Archive for January 2010

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The Dance Floor and The Balcony Social Media Training

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki, from Global Voices. I’ve known since 2005 and I realized that…

Twitter Is A Network Weaver’s Best Friend

This past week, June Holley did a brown bag lunch at the Packard Foundation on network weaving and I was lucky enough to learn from her for a few hours! How would I describe June Holley? She’s the guru of…

Twitter Is A Network Weaver’s Best Friend

This past week, June Holley did a brown bag lunch at the Packard Foundation on network weaving and I was lucky enough to learn from her for a few hours! How would I describe June Holley? She’s the guru of…

Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Tips for Cash-Challenged Nonprofits

For useful nonprofit tips about fundraising on a budget, check out this month’s carnival here, hosted by IssueLab. Thanks to about.com for sponsoring the carnival. (What’s a carnival?)

I am hosting next month! That means right here on my blog, I’ll be linking to any great posts on the topic: Highs and Lows: Share your stories of your best and/or worst moments as a nonprofit professional – and what you learned from them. I promise to share a low - embarrassing things are more entertaining.

If you want to be featured on my blog, submit your post entry by February 25th here.

Reacting to Widening State Budget Gaps, Plus More: Thursday’s Roundup

Reacting to widening state budget gaps, plus more: Thursday’s roundup

Green Up Your Cause Marketing


How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald’s House

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called “Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks” over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. I blogged about the content last week. I had sooo much fun creating…

Charity Leader Describes ‘Fraught’ Relationship with Foundations [4]

Mock letter takes foundations to task

Guest Post by Tom Dawkins: Ashoka’s use of Twitter

Note from Beth: Ashoka’s Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for…

SMS Fundraising Campaign for Breast Cancer

Given the visible success of the Haiti text to give campaigns, SMS is bound to become one of the tools in the an organization’s fundraising bag if it isn’t already. Today I heard about Drew Olanoff’s latest fundraising campaign, a…