Podcasting: An Intriguing Way to Talk

I’ve been wondering about how to get started recording audio podcasts. Just my luck, TechSoup and NTEN are at their free webinars again this week, with Corey from 501c3Cast, a podcast for non-profits. He’s covering the VERY basics. I need them!!
Great reminder–don’t just start podcasing for the heck of it. Do [...]

Telling Your Story: Inching In to Tracking Your Social Media Content

Thanks to TechSoup and NTEN as well as Amy Semple Ward of NetSquared, here are some tips on getting a non-profit started on ‘virality’:
Step 1: Listen Gosh, I’ve actually already got that one covered!
Step 2: Share
I use Zotero to bookmark online info that I’m researching, and Delicious to tag interesting things [...]

Groundswell

Groundswell: How People with Social Technologies are Changing Everything
In thinking about engaging supporters who are already online, and those that aren’t, Groundswell categorizes them into six typographs of users/non-users. The book–from Forrester Research, who’s pretty into this stuff–uses lots of data and demographics to talk about ‘markets’ and ‘trends’ that are swelling up–so we’d [...]

Step 1: Listening

One thing you can resolve to do in the new year is observe what others are talking about and doing with nonprofit social media. Just knowing what’s going on in the wide world of nonprofit social media makes you want to get on the bandwagon.
Here’s a list of tools to help you find out [...]

Twitter Tools II

Already on Twitter? Here’s some more in-depth tips & tools:
Wow–the rapid insights of TweetStats into your inner tweeter will blow your mind and are downright scary about the power of exposure that exists in this new internet age. Within SECONDS, you’ll see analysis of what time of day you tweet most, what percent [...]

Segmenting Facebook

Think about new media users as one of three types: Influencers, Advocates & Enthusiasts–do you have a strategy to reach each of these??
Good heavens, no! We all hardly know about this stuff, let alone have THREE separate strategies to reach a market on JUST ONE TOOL!
These guys recommend we get a segmented strategy:
Article from [...]

New Year, New Resolve

Want to learn? Resolve! I have a policy of only making fun resolutions–like adding things to my life instead of focusing resolutions on deprivation.
Here are a WHOLE bunch of links and ideas about what others in the social media realm are resolving to do with new technology in the new year. How [...]

Social Media for Social Good

I’m starting out the new year right, recapping Convio’s webinar on new media for nonprofits. Emily Riley of Forrester Research and Beth Kanter of Beth’s Blog discuss the vast spread of knowledge via the web and its new tools.
* It’s not just for youth! Soon, they too will have less time to spend [...]

Learn the New Web

In 12 lessons, this is a self-paced course at School Library Journal. Come learn with the librarians about 12 new tech tools. Bookmark the site and take the self-paced learning journey –one per month? one per week? with your staff?