Community & Social Media

Harness the Crowd to Increase Awareness, Cultivate New Volunteers, and Gather Information for Your Charity

This post was originally published on Blackbaud's site and was also shared on the TechSoup.org blog.

By: Nicole McGougan

Blackbaud produced a new whitepaper in partnership with SmallAct and the National Wildlife Federation identifying social media supporters and categorizing them into four segments:

By: Kristen Scott, TechSoup Canada Volunteer

So you have a Facebook page, a Twitter profile, a blog, an Instagram stream, and a Pinterest pinboard - but have you ever wondered if all of your fans, followers and re-pinners are actually connecting to your cause? Measuring success in social media is a hotly debated topic within the non-profit technology world and big questions persist:

So I've been slipping a bit when it comes to the Friday Feed, but reading this post from Tools for Change encouraged me to try to post a bit more regularly (since it's been 3 months since the last one, that shouldn't be too hard!). Anyway get excited - I have some great stuff in store for you this week.

By: Marnie Grona, Director of Marketing & Communications, Imagine Canada

En français - Sommet des OSBL : l’histoire des médias sociaux

This post was written by Ben Teoh, graduate project officer for online content at Connecting Up Australia. It originally appeared on the Connecting Up blog.

In order to stay up to date on what's going on in the world of technology - and nonprofit technology in particular - I follow quite a few blogs and twitter feeds. There's a lot of great content out there but if you don't have the time to stay on top of things (and even if you do!) it can be overwhelming. So, for those of you who have less time to do all this "listening" on nonprofit technology, I'm posting a blog on Fridays with the top resources I found in the last week.

Last week I got the opportunity to speak at a panel hosted by Karen Luttrell of Luttrell Communications and Amy Sept of Nimbyist Communications as part of Social Media Week.