Google Hangouts: Give Your Conferences a Longer Life: Associations Now

Google Hangouts: Give Your Conferences a Longer Life: Associations Now: Google Hangouts have been gaining momentum in the meetings and conferences sphere due to their capabilities and ease of use. Google members can invite other members to join a session, record the conversation, and then give it feet by posting it on YouTube or writing a blog post about the meetup.

Here are some ways organizations have used Google Hangouts:

A warm welcome: The International Franchise Association recently hosted a Hangout welcoming first-time convention attendees. T

Social data integration key to successful campaign planning | TMA Resources

Social data integration key to successful campaign planning | TMA Resources: A new study by J.D. Power and Associates revealed a direct link between social media and success, implying that organizations need to more effectively integrate these channels into marketing plans. The majority of an organization's clients interacting on social channels, particularly for service needs or support, are between the ages of 18 and 29. However, Jacqueline Anderson, director of social media and text analytics for the firm, explained that regardless of age group, the impact of social engagement is considerable.

Arab Publics Turning to Social Networks to Express Political Views | Pew Research Center

Arab Publics Turning to Social Networks to Express Political Views | Pew Research Center: Social networking has spread around the world with remarkable speed. In countries such as Britain, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic and Spain, about half of all adults now use Facebook and similar websites. These sites are also popular in many lower-income nations, where, once people have access to the internet, they tend to use it for social networking.

Big Data: A Natural Solution for Disaster Relief | SmartData Collective

Big Data: A Natural Solution for Disaster Relief | SmartData Collective: Terrestrial challenges, on the other hand, are currently more amenable to big data. One of big data’s true strengths lies in crisis mapping, the process of using visualizations, footage, analysis and apps to get an overview of a disaster as it evolves. Google’s Superstorm Sandy Crisis Map tracked the course of last winter’s storm, with video footage, evacuation routes and emergency aid centers. The UN commissioned the Digital Humanitarian Network to track the real-time effects of Typhoon Pablo in the Philippines. Among other efforts, social data was analyzed to provide a detailed, real-time map of displaced people, fatalities, crop damage, broken bridges and more.

New Web Site Teaches Charities About Finances - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

New Web Site Teaches Charities About Finances - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: New Web Site Teaches Charities About Finances

By Nicole Wallace

A new Web site seeks to help social-service charities bolster their financial know-how.

StrongNonprofits.org offers in-depth information and guides on budgeting, financial analysis, monitoring, and the role of boards in financial management. The site was created by the Wallace Foundation and Fiscal Management Associates, a consulting company that focuses on nonprofit financial management.

Techcafeteria Blog � The Nonprofit Management Gap

Techcafeteria Blog � The Nonprofit Management Gap: ome of those jobs got bad, but here’s how bad it can get when management just doesn’t get technology.

So, back to my rant, here’s my question: why would we increase the strategic role of marketing at the expense of strategic technology integration? Is that a conscious desire to move just as far backward as we’re moving forward? Is this suggestion out of a frustration that people who manage technology aren’t exclusively supporting communications in our resource-strapped environments? In any case, it’s a sad day for the sector if we’re going to pitch turf wars instead of overall competence. There is no question: we need high level technologists looking after our infrastructure, data strategy, and constituent engagement. But we can’t address critical needs by crippling other areas.

Artisanal Social Media Marketing | Adweek

Artisanal Social Media Marketing | Adweek: "I hate to say this, but our reliance on publishing tools [can be a hindrance]. For the most part, you always see better performance using native publishing platforms out of the gates," said Chris Tuff, svp, director of earned and emerging media at 22squared.

Why is manual better? Well, it forces marketers to confront how others are using the program. That prevents a brand from completely hijacking a platform to communicate some on-brand message sanitized to the point of emptiness. "Brands need to be acting more and more like people," Tuff said. "What better way to do that than to force them to use the same mobile experience [as regular users]."

Giving Hearts Day is Thursday: Nonprofits hope to benefit from 24-hour online fundraising event | The Jamestown Sun | Jamestown, North Dakota

Giving Hearts Day is Thursday: Nonprofits hope to benefit from 24-hour online fundraising event | The Jamestown Sun | Jamestown, North Dakota: Giving Hearts Day is a 24-hour online fundraising event hosted by The Dakota Medical Foundation and the Impact Foundation. Contributions of $10 to $4,000 to participating charities will be matched by the DMF.

My Top 10 Sources for Social Media Tips

My Top 10 Sources for Social Media Tips: Nonprofits are learning how to make friends, influence the zeitgeist, and raise money through their social networking channels. Best practices are evolving swiftly. The only question now is how do you keep up?

You could start by bookmarking these blogs that I have found to be indispensable social media resources. They only represent a small fraction of the available universe, but these particular ones keep surfacing in my world.

Nebraska Partnership for Philanthropic Planning : Programs : Newsroom

Nebraska Partnership for Philanthropic Planning : Programs : Newsroom: All it takes is one person to start a movement. And NBC News correspondent Ann Curry proved that statement to be true. After the devastation that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary school in December, Curry posed a simple statement on Twitter that caused a viral movement.

“Imagine if all of us committed to 20 mitzvahs/acts of kindness to honor each child lost in Newtown. I’m in. If you are RT #20acts.”

Tech's new entrepreneurial approach to philanthropy

Tech's new entrepreneurial approach to philanthropy: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was giving $500 million worth of his stock to the non-profit Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which helps donors manage and identify charitable funds that are in line with their philanthropic passions.

How Google is supporting nonprofits – plus other tech tools for you to try | Idealist Careers

How Google is supporting nonprofits – plus other tech tools for you to try | Idealist Careers: How Google is supporting nonprofits – plus other tech tools for you to try

10 Tips From Boing Boing On Making Online Content Sing | Fast Company

10 Tips From Boing Boing On Making Online Content Sing | Fast Company: Is your blog a snooze? Are people unfollowing you faster than you can tweet? Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing shares his strategies for killer online conten

Mobile giving – it's easy to stand out in a crowd of one - queer ideas

Mobile giving – it's easy to stand out in a crowd of one - queer ideas: Mobile giving – it's easy to stand out in a crowd of one

This is a guest post from Bluefrog's new Head of Donor Engagement - James Waring.

In the first couple of weeks after you start a new job (as I have done this January) you often find yourself looking for things to do, or waiting around for meetings and inductions. During these lulls, in a bid to appear as up to the minute as possible, I’ve been reading a lot of fundraising blogs. One theme has really rung out across the sector this January – Retention (So much so that all these words link to a different article on it).

Something else that’s in everyone’s mind and has decent retention rates is regular giving via your mobile phone. So could the retention issue be solved by the convenience of a text? Has one of the holes in that leaky bucket been plugged?

Stormy Weather Pushed Giving Higher for 2012 - TheNonProfitTimes

Stormy Weather Pushed Giving Higher for 2012 - TheNonProfitTimes: Charitable giving in the United States is estimated to have grown 1.7 percent on a year-over-year basis during 2012, with small organizations doing the best and large organizations losing ground. Had it not been for Super Storm Sandy last October, fundraising might have posted an overall loss.

Online giving is estimated to have made a rebound of 10.7 percent, with medium-sized organizations leading the way but all sizes showing gains.