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Thanks, Chris. One thing I think you're sort of underscoring is that companies like Causes don't make decisions purely on where the audience is; like all for-profit companies, they have to follow investor buzz. That's what bothers me about nonprofit writers cavalierly endorsing this or that social media toy in the first place: it seems a
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Amy did a pretty great guest post on Sean Stannard-Stockton's Tactical Philanthropy blog about Causes and Ideablob. I've added a few thoughts here . Cheers, Elliot
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Thanks, Megan. Do you think that there's a sort of desperation to be the first to think of one of these events? I remember the blamedrewscancer campaign, and I also remember a few orgs trying to do silimar Twitter blitzes with much less success. Similarly, I've seen a few attempts to do something like Tweetsgiving, with very little response
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Today on the TechSoup Blog , we discussed Fab Lab Jalalabad and Beer for Data, two examples of creative strategies for dealing with infrastructural challenges in Afghanistan. If you have the time to watch it, I highly recommend this interview that Vinay Gupta conducted with Smari McCarthy. McCarthy's on-the-ground view of NGO work in Afghanistan
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Today on the TechSoup Blog , we discussed Causes' decision to leave MySpace and become a Facebook-only application. What do you think of the news? Cheers, Elliot
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Thanks for linking to this, Megan. I haven't had the chance to listen to the NPR series yet, but I'm planning to. Relatedly, Aspen Baker wrote an excellent blog post on how internet privacy impacts nonprofits . I wrote a TechSoup article on privacy issues involved with tools like Google Analytics, and a follow-up blog post about privacy legislation
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Today on the TechSoup Blog , we discussed a new article by Jeff Brooks and the possible pitfalls of working with ad agencies. What's your favorite or least favorite example of nonprofit advertising? What's your organization's advertising success (or failure) story? Cheers, Elliot
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Hi everyone, I'm reviving this topic because we just published a similar blog post . Does your organization have a social media policy for employees? Cheers, Elliot
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You win, Chris, I don't know what I mean by "social media campaign" either. I was giving into the fear some nonprofits have of using the M-word. Channing wrote a great blog post about this awhile ago. Your post reminds me of a conversation I had with a colleague recently. I was stressing the importance of developing real, lasting, two
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I just published an entry to the TechSoup Blog about what I'm calling the phone test, based on a post by Laura Quinn . The idea of the phone test is that before starting any communications campaign (old media or new media), compare its impact to the impact you'd have by spending the same amount of time calling donors. When is a social media