What Makes a Blogger Credible? | Social Media Strategy for Nonprofits and Businesses

What Makes a Blogger Credible? | Social Media Strategy for Nonprofits and Businesses

Can Technology Help Build Neighborhoods? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

Can Technology Help Build Neighborhoods? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: Watertown, Mass. is joining nine other cities across the United States in an experiment in online community organizing. Watertown has launched CommonPlace, billed as a place residents of a community can share and connect with their neighbors. Watertown residents can now trade names of babysitters, share ladders and track down lost pets using the power of technology. But the site aims to go one step further, and “connect communities on a civic organization to citizen basis.” In other words, the site offers a hub for community groups to reach all citizens rather than having to build out their following on social media or on their websites.

How A Gaming Guru Is Powering Up The New Social Philanthropy | Fast Company

How A Gaming Guru Is Powering Up The New Social Philanthropy | Fast Company: How A Gaming Guru Is Powering Up The New Social Philanthropy
BY Lydia Dishman | 07-06-2012 | 9:30 AM
Razoo CEO Lesley Mansford is an interactive entertainment and gaming veteran who’s now challenging nonprofits and individuals to raise the bar (and bigger donations) on social fundraising.

Refuge's abuse film deserved to go viral - Civil Society - Fundraising - Blogs - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits

Refuge's abuse film deserved to go viral - Civil Society - Fundraising - Blogs - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits: So Refuge should be applauded for their canny move in asking make-up artist to the YouTube audience, Lauren Luke, to front their latest campaign to combat domestic violence - 'Don't cover it up'. Their reward of going viral, with almost 500,000 hits in one week, and coverage on Sky News, Channel 5 news, Telegraph, Guardian, Huffington Post, gossip magazine Jezebel, and of course civilsociety.co.uk, is well deserved.

Facing $600K in cuts, Philadelphia-area high school seeks to raise funds through eBay listing

Facing $600K in cuts, Philadelphia-area high school seeks to raise funds through eBay listing: LANGHORNE, Pa. — Forget magazine drives and candy sales. A cash-strapped high school near Philadelphia hopes to raise money by auctioning itself on eBay.

The starting bid of just under $600,000 for The Learning Center in Langhorne, Pa., is designed to offset steep budget cuts. A tongue-in-cheek listing describes the alternative school for at-risk teens as "pre-owned" and "slightly used."

Video: Charities should be the gold standard of transparency | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional

Video: Charities should be the gold standard of transparency | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional: Video: Charities should be the gold standard of transparency

NCVO's Karl Wilding discusses the cultural shift needed for charities to embrace open data and how data can help decision-makers. From the Guardian's bringing your data to life seminar, in association with TechSoup Global, on Wednesday 13 June 2012

Consumers, i.e., Donors, Starting To Like Tumblr - TheNonProfitTimes

Consumers, i.e., Donors, Starting To Like Tumblr - TheNonProfitTimes: Tumblr, to me, is a great platform to reach a new, young audience,” said Rochee Jeffrey, FB’s social media coordinator. FB’s Tumblr has between 25,000 and 30,000 (number of Tumblr followers are not made public), compared to 22,000 Facebook fans and 20,000 Twitter followers. “The virality factor is fairly high. We’ve had more success spreading messages on Tumblr than Twitter or Facebook,” said Jeffrey.

GISuser.com GIS Location Technology - Microsoft Local Impact Map helps nonprofits illustrate the difference they make in a visual, dynamic

GISuser.com GIS Location Technology - Microsoft Local Impact Map helps nonprofits illustrate the difference they make in a visual, dynamic: To meet that need, Microsoft is making the Microsoft Local Impact Map available to nonprofits to help them share their stories in a compelling way on their websites. Originally developed to help showcase the impact of Microsoft Citizenship programs in more than 100 countries around the world, the map application is now being offered at no cost for licensing and a $15 monthly fee to host the map online via the Windows Azure platform. The Bing Maps-based user interface allows people to explore impact stories by category or by zooming in on a continent, country or region. The program includes a content management system that makes it easy for nonprofits to publish and manage their stories.