Time Spent With Personal Email Unchanged From Last Year : eMarketing & Commerce (eM+C)

Time Spent With Personal Email Unchanged From Last Year : eMarketing & Commerce (eM+C): "Despite the growth in the number of people using social networking sites to communicate with each other, time spent with personal email to friends and family is unchanged from last year, with 71 percent of respondents spending 20 minutes or more weekly."

What It Takes to be a (Successful) Social Media Manager - The DelCor Connection Blog

What It Takes to be a (Successful) Social Media Manager - The DelCor Connection Blog: "What It Takes to be a (Successful) Social Media Manager

When a person's job is to be responsible for social media on behalf of their organization, it is bound to be frought with unique challenges and oportunities others in their association would not likely see. The Social Media Manager is often a hybrid of public relations/marketing/membership/customer service. My friend, Maddie Grant, has a great series of interviews with some Social Media Managers and the interviews provide great insight into how these individuals do their jobs."

http://joetrippi.com/blog/?p=3094

http://joetrippi.com/blog/?p=3094: "n a project that could revolutionize international communication, Google is working to create mobile phone software that will build on voice recognition and automatic translation technology to provide almost instantaneous voice translations. Google says the project should be ready in a couple of years. The UK Times reports:"

Dell Social Innovation Competition

Dell Social Innovation Competition: "Welcome to the Dell Social Innovation Competition

The University of Texas and Dell are looking for college students from around the world who want to improve areas of critical human need through innovation.

Providing a vehicle for taking student innovations from idea to reality, Dell’s Social Innovation Competition is a real-world exercise for perfecting your skills in:

* Project/business plan development
* Pitching ideas to investors
* Building resource networks"

Why My Mom Is My Fundraising Guru | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network

Why My Mom Is My Fundraising Guru | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "he challenge in online fundraising today is that it's more than just email: it's Facebook, and Twitter, and e-mail, and widgets, and your website, and your blog, and your supporters blogs, and... well, you get the idea.

During the course of the 2009 fundraising campaign, the task ahead of me often felt like Medusa: if I stared directly into any of those serpentine eyes, I was frozen. Thinking too hard about any one tactic meant I was lost for hours. But we managed to meet the challenge (by the skin of our teeth)."

Facebook | Beth Kanter: Win A HP Computer and Printer: What's Your Theory of Change for Social Media Use?

Facebook | Beth Kanter: Win A HP Computer and Printer: What's Your Theory of Change for Social Media Use?: "HP is giving away laptop and printer bundles as part of its HP’s Create Change program which is an example of 'embedded giving.' That's a buzz word coined by Lucy Bernholz to describe the common practice of building a philanthropic gift into another, unrelated, financial transaction. Embedded giving is easy for individuals to do, and probably gives them an added psychological boost to know that spending money on purchasing something is not just an act of commerce, it's an act of generosity."

Introducing the New NTEN.org | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network

Introducing the New NTEN.org | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "hile the new look has thrown off a few of us here at NTEN HQ -- years of habituation to click the same spot to go the the NTC pages, undone! -- we hope it will make the process of finding things on our site more intuitive for everybody else. The new 'Resources by Topic' section, in particular, should make it easier for you to find some of our once-hidden information.

The new look will be introduced to our Groups site and the My NTEN pages over the next few weeks. If you're bored, you can also compare the new site to the old: http://yekk.pair.com/nten.

We're certain there are issues and stylesheet-related funkiness here and there, and we hope you'll tell us about them, along with your general impressions, using our new commenting system. Thanks to Marshall K for sending the fine folks at JSKit.com our way, and thanks to Chris Saad for letting us use Echo. We think it's a terrific system."

Conversation Agent: Blogging at Work if You Don't Have a Blog

Conversation Agent: Blogging at Work if You Don't Have a Blog: "Many companies and marketing communications professionals are thinking about social media. But starting a blog seems daunting. If you're among them, I'm certain you've considered who's going to write consistently, who will moderate comments, how closely you will need to watch to see if anyone comes, and you probably also worry that nobody will come at all.

Blogging doesn't need to happen on blogs alone."