Social Media Guidelines – The Washington Post
I came across these social media guidelines and decided to collect those from now on. It’s fascinating to see the different takes various organizations have on the issue of social media engagement....
View ArticleTonight On The Agenda: limits of transparency and digital activism
I am looking forward to the livechat on The Agenda tonight. The topic? Limits of transparency and digital activism. I will be joining @jessebrown to moderate the online discussion, as the incredible...
View ArticleSEO for non-profits: How to write for the web
If your non-profit has a website, make sure the content on your site is optimized for the web. Some of the basic rules to keep in mind: Use keywords in your writing copy that would help people find...
View ArticleHoHoTO 3.0 is on!
Cross-posted from the main HoHoTO page: hohoto.ca and no, I didn’t write this but I do hope to write like this one day! Yes, we’re doing it again. As those of you following the tweets have noticed,...
View Article#HaiHaiTO: Helping Humanity by Helping Haiti
When I got involved with co-organizing HaiHaiTO, a twitter fundraiser for Haiti, I couldn’t imagine what the actual event would be like. All we wanted was to do more to help Haiti. Turns out, there...
View ArticleTalk is Cheap
You can catch me at the upcoming unconference at Centennial College with a cool and clever name: Talk is Cheap. Please come by, say hi, and go to as many sessions as you can. Take this great...
View ArticleFuture of Fundraising: What Haiti taught us and where we can go from here
Watch this! Haiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage from Khalid Mohtaseb on Vimeo. It’s hard to count all the fundraisers, donations, and silent auctions that went on and are still going on to help Haiti in...
View ArticleBuzz is in the air for MyCharityConnects conference
Make MyCharityConnects on June 7 & 8 your Event of the Year. This is a two-day conference that “aims to build the capacity of the Canadian charitable sector by connecting charities to the...
View ArticleMesh, Everybody
Mesh conference starts tomorrow! If you go, I hope to see you there, and I hope to meet more people whose work I follow through the *interwebs*, and see some new faces. If you can’t make it this year,...
View ArticlePR and social media events
It’s hard to keep track of them all, but these PR and social media events – many of them are free, by the way, – present a great learning opportunity. If social media interests you, stay on top of all...
View ArticleTime to learn, time to reflect
“We need time! More time,” I often hear people say. Magnitude of the long ‘to-do’ lists paralyzes, and the society presses all of us to be on, all the time. To be plugged in, be involved, do the work,...
View ArticleA love note to HoHoTO 2010: Help us help the world suck a little less
Here’s something that warms my heart every year for the last three years: seeing an incredibly generous and kind community come together to celebrate the holidays and feed the hungry. My dear Toronto...
View ArticleSocial media and other fun trends for 2011
So the social media and other interesting trends for 2011 are now coming in. I’m going to collect a few here, so that I have them all in one place – please feel free to add more in the comments. Six...
View ArticleExcellent intro into Facebook Questions for Facebook pages
How to use Facebook questions for your nonprofit: http://nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/how-to-use-facebook-questions-for-your-nonprofit/
View ArticleOn hiatus
Hi and thank you for visiting my blog. As a new mom, I decided to take some time off blogging, but I will be back! Stay tuned.
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