40% of Association Members’ Online Time is in Professional Communities [Research]

40% of Association Members’ Online Time is in Professional Communities [Research]: A new research project from the Society of New Communication Research called, The Social Mind, examines the rise of new social behaviors and interrelationships between individuals, organizations, and influencers. The three year series of studies surveyed more than 400 professionals and highly educated people in North America who participate in social media networks.

The research found that 40% of professionals’ online time is spent engaging in peer-to-peer online communities, followed by interacting with friends at 31% and family at 13%.

Crowd-funding campaigns gaining popularity with Canadians | News | National Post

Crowd-funding campaigns gaining popularity with Canadians | News | National Post: TORONTO — A burlesque troupe, a film about female Palestinian race car drivers and a bullied American bus monitor — as diverse as those topics are, they all share a common Canadian thread.

All three projects sparked crowd-funding campaigns, an Internet-based trend thrust into the spotlight recently by a Toronto man’s wildly successful fundraising effort for a Rochester, N.Y., grandmother.

How to Raise Funds Through Crowd Funding Platforms | Social Media Today

How to Raise Funds Through Crowd Funding Platforms | Social Media Today

Razoo raises $100M for social causes without dancing, PBS, or Milton Berle | VentureBeat

Razoo raises $100M for social causes without dancing, PBS, or Milton Berle | VentureBeat: Crowdfunding-for-causes platform Razoo hit the $100 million mark today. It raised more than half of this amount in the past nine months, ever since veteran gaming executive Lesley Mansford took over as CEO and applied her unique expertise to fundraising for social good.

One Tweet from a CEO is worth 100 Tweets from Staff

One Tweet from a CEO is worth 100 Tweets from Staff

AFP Suncoast Blog

AFP Suncoast Blog: Social Media and Fundraising: Tampa Metropolitan YMCA

Humor Site Aspires to Be 'The Onion' for Nonprofits - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Humor Site Aspires to Be 'The Onion' for Nonprofits - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: John Suart wants his humor Web site to be The Onion for nonprofits. But first he must grapple with the earnestness of nonprofit workers trying to save the world.