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Showing over Telling: Collective Lens

alexsteed — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:24:36 -0500

In somewhere around 100 different ways on this blog, I've tried to stress the importance of showing over telling. Very recently I was happy to speak with Bryan Tighe of Collective Lens, a beautiful and comprehensive web-based photozine that helps small nonprofits and causes show their stories and impact in powerful and touching ways. The site does a wonderful job of realizing and putting to work the impact of the visual, especially with regard to telling the story of an initiative, a people, and/or a country, and shows a lot of potential for helping organizations find support by sharing their impact visually.

FriendRank and Fundraising?

Channing — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:42:13 -0400

Google has apparently applied for a series of patents that will enable it to a put a value on how connected you are, within your social network. Akin to the "pagerank" system used by the search giant for valuing the popularity of websites, "friendrank" would help identify individuals who are particularly influential within circles of friends.

Empowering Social Individuals - Interview with Susan Gordon from Causes

jedsundwall — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:59:15 -0400

A chat with Susan Gordon, Non-Profit Coordinator for Causes. She tells us a thing or two about how Causes works, how a medical student used Causes to create a 3.3 million+ strong campaign to fight cancer, and how to get your fumigator to join your Cause.

How to run an online fundraiser

Channing — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:37:59 -0400

I will give you some actual nuts and bolts, but let me first say this: all good online fundraisers have two basic directions they work in - in and out. ‘In’ is a webpage, where people visit you. ‘Out’ is as in reaching out, through emails, smsing, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook etc etc etc. You are aiming for flow between the two directions. Because - just like all really successful fundraising - this is not so much about asking a bunch of people for money. Actually, it’s about a personal exchange - exactly what the internet was made for. Hold that thought, here come the nuts and bolts…

(to read the rest of this post, click here!)

Should funders reward nonprofits for how much they communicate in new media?

Mazarine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:24:40 -0400

If the more you communicate, the more impact you can have, the more you potentially can create more support for your cause, get donors, etc, should funders look at nonprofits who are communicating more in a more favorable light?

And should every facebook event post, every myspace friend, be counted towards that communication quota?

Or are nonprofits in new media investing program money in something that has yet to show a serious $$ per person return?

Are funders even looking at communication as something worth supporting?

What is your experience?

Can you get in the game? -Using video to connect

Mazarine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:37:40 -0400

Engaging the youth!

What does it take? Whether you're on the board, on staff, or a volunteer, this is on every nonprofit's mind. And if you're looking around yourself at all, you're attempting to plan ahead. Developing support for your nonprofit means communicating. A lot.

What about making people laugh?
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=529102816568&ref=nf

Social Network-y Goodness from frogloop and Care2

JamesOMalleyIV — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:07:13 -0400

Care2's nonprofit online marketing blog, frogloop, recently released a dual post on social networking worthy of a read from even the most staunch social networking gurus. Both the ROI Calculator and The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes articles will help you determine whether marketing on social networking makes sense for you.

The first one, an ROI Calculator, will help you calculate an estimate of cost and return on investment for the recruitment and fundraising efforts of your staff in social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

Just enter the starting assumptions like cost per hour of staff/volunteers, social network "friends" recruited per week, and the average response rate for outreach or advocacy mailings, and the tool calculates results automatically. This is a fantastic way to help you determine whether or not developing a presence on social networking sites is worth your hard earned dollars and precious time.

The Overwhelming Power of the Summer Solstice

Rich Reader — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:36:17 -0400

Sometimes sharing stuff is better than being forever embarrassed of one’s own creative urges, regardless how critical we might be of ourselves.

Perhaps partially as a result of our explorations in the many social networking tools which have been shown to us at Net Tuesday and at N2Y2, I went nuts and joined 10 social networks on NING, while thinking about the identity of the one that I might create.

Youth-led social change org. is finalist in Impact Awards

aswanson — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:03:00 -0400

Youth Venture, sister program of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (www.ashoka.org), is one of three finalists in the MySpace Impact Awards. Youth Venture is building a global movement of young social changemakers by inspiring and investing in young people around the world to launch and lead their own social ventures. Youth Venture is using it's innovative new website, www.genv.net, to connect young people across the globe in a movement of youth-led social change. Youth who have already launched Ventures can create their own profiles of their teams and can read about and connect to other teams.

Cauzoo is Signing Up!

Cauzoo — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:25:53 -0400

We loved meeting everyone during the NetSquared frenzy- it was so great to learn about your projects.

So we definitely wanted to make this one of the first places we went to when we started signing up causes. Right now, we're building a base of nonprofits before we launch.

But I won't talk your ear off here- check out our tour and, most importantly, give us a shout out to tell us what you think (or go ahead and sign up).

http://www.cauzoo.com/cauzoo-nonprofit-info1.php .

The join page is at the end.

Good luck to the conference goers and everyone else!

~Phil, Cauzoo