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I’ve blogged before about nonprofits taking advantage of holidays and times of the year that might be traditional pushes for for-profit orgs, but might not be on the radar for NPOs. Back-to-school is one of those times where we are bombarded by retailers to get shopping. But this year, there are more calls to give [ READ MORE ]
While group or organization pages are still not available on Google+, a great article on mashable.com last week recommends nonprofits jumping in now rather than later through employee pages. Here are 4 tips from the article on how nonprofits can jump into Google+: Host Exclusive Hangouts: Hangouts are Google+’s video conferencing feature, and is a good [ READ MORE ]
Ever since I joined the microvolunteering network Sparked.com, one of the most common queries I see coming from non-profit orgs is: We have a blog, but have no idea what to do with it or how to get people to read it. Find yourself asking a similar question? Here’s a few tips to get your [ READ MORE ]
At its worst, the Internet can leave me feeling depressed and overwhelmed, especially with the natural disasters and Charlie Sheen overload. But at its best, I come away from my computer inspired, uplifted and connected. Sparked.com gives me that second kind of feeling. Described as “the microvolunteering network,” Sparked is an online volunteering site that [ READ MORE ]
The high school dropout rate is an issue that has increasingly come to my attention in the past few months, starting with my experience volunteering in West Virginia. I came across this new campaign by Publicis Modem on Osocio.org for Ad Council and the US Army called Boostup, centered around Boostup.org A “boost” is a [ READ MORE ]
This past week, blogger Kivi Leroux Miller (of Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications Blog) discussed a consultation she had with the Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta at the Nonprofit Technology Conference: The Furniture Bank has a website, a blog, an email newsletter, a Facebook page and a Twitter account. What they didn’t have was any kind of strategy for how all [ READ MORE ]
Today as I was volunteering in Cambridge for BU’s Global Day of Service, I tweeted from my site what I was doing. It was then that I had a stroke of genius (or so I thought): what if, as a volunteer, I could check in to the service project on Foursquare? What would it mean [ READ MORE ]
Recently, I read Seth Godin’s Flipping the Funnel for my new media class. It wasn’t until after I visited Godin’s website that I discovered his Flipping the Funnel edition for non-profits. While the ideas in this edition are the same at the core, Godin proposes how to: Turn strangers into friends, Turn friends into donors, [ READ MORE ]
Today on Mashable, I stumbled upon the news of Jumo: Facebook co-founder and My.BarackObama.com alum Chris Hughes announced the soft launch of Jumo, his new philanthropic start-up that works to match do-gooders with appropriate causes. Currently, the Jumo site is merely an elegantly designed homepage that announces Hughes’s mission to “bring together everyday individuals and organizations [ READ MORE ]
Just a few weeks ago, I travelled to Beards Fork, West Virginia with the Boston University Alternative Spring Breaks program. A few towns over from our work site, the coal mine Upper Big Branch had a horrible disaster: “A huge underground explosion blamed on methane gas killed 25 coal miners in the worst US mining disaster [ READ MORE ]
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