Friday, March 28, 2014

Hacktivation event seeks ways for tech to help S.F. homeless - SFGate

Hacktivation event seeks ways for tech to help S.F. homeless - SFGate: Technology whizzes, nonprofit workers and others will converge this weekend in San Francisco to try to cook up new tech-savvy ways to help the homeless in a series of get-togethers organizers are calling Hacktivation for the Homeless.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The six types of Twitter conversations | Pew Research Center

The six types of Twitter conversations | Pew Research Center: Have you ever wondered what a Twitter conversation looks like from 10,000 feet? A new report from the Pew Research Center, in association with the Social Media Research Foundation, provides an aerial view of the social media network. By analyzing many thousands of Twitter conversations, we identified six different conversational archetypes. Our infographic describes each type of conversation network and an explanation of how it is shaped by the topic being discussed and the people driving the conversation.

10 Non-Social Media Skills of Great Online Community Managers

10 Non-Social Media Skills of Great Online Community Managers: Do You Have the Non-Social Media Skills to Manage an Online Community?

Using Online Community to Increase Member Retention

Using Online Community to Increase Member Retention: Suppose you’re not obsessed with online communities like I am–you might wonder how online community can help increase member retention. To me, it’s just a given–retention is about keeping members engaged with both the association and other members. Look at the top three reasons members don’t renew association membership, according to MGI’s 2013 Membership Marketing Benchmarking report:

Budget cuts
Lack of engagement
Unable to justify membership costs with ROI

Joseph Kony Is Back In The News. Do Teenagers Still Care? : Parallels : NPR

Joseph Kony Is Back In The News. Do Teenagers Still Care? : Parallels : NPR: Two years on, however, the video and the reaction to it are still studied by some in social media, who say it demonstrates the huge impact a successful campaign can have in terms of increasing awareness, as well as the risks inherent in not being prepared to deal with that impact.

"At this point, even two years later, it's a classic example of how well-designed a social media campaign should be, but also the challenges of keeping an audience's attention in the social media world," says Marcus Messner, who teaches social media at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Online giving course adds actor Patrick Dempsey - San Antonio Express-News

Online giving course adds actor Patrick Dempsey - San Antonio Express-News: When the second edition of an online course on effective giving starts next month, students will have a chance to learn from actor Patrick Dempsey, billionaire Warren Buffett and other prominent philanthropists.

Students in the free class that's scheduled to start on April 2 also will be able to help decide how to give away at least $100,000 of Buffett's sister Doris' money.

The Learning By Giving Foundation announced Monday that Dempsey had agreed to join the Buffetts, baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. and other philanthropists in sharing lessons they learned from their own charitable efforts.