- Maintaining Online Volunteers
- Lindsey sums it up with "Keep them updated, Share their successes, and Say thank you!" - Finding and Engaging Volunteers Through Social Media
- Back this spring, when we were recruiting volunteers for our big event, I did almost entirely online: Facebook, Craigslist and VolunteerMatch. Craigslist brought us in some really key adult volunteers and VolunteerMatch is being used a lot by high school kids trying to fill their service hours - Facebook traffic nears Google, Yahoo
- Joe Trippi analyzes the numbers that shows that Facebook traffic is nearing Google and Yahoo. In May 2009, Facebook had 113 million views. Google and Yahoo have about 140 million views per month. - 5 Email Sins to Avoid
- This is a *fantastic* primer for anyone starting an email blast / email newsletter program or looking to figure out what might be going right or wrong with their program. - 2008 IT Staffing & Spending Report from NTEN
- Managing Multiple Twitter Accounts for Your Non-Profit
- Most of us that twitter and work in non-profit usually have a personal twitter account and then one or more twitter accounts for our non-profits that we also manage. Most of the tools don't allow you to manage more than one twitter account. Also, finding a web-based twitter tool can be difficult. Beth Kanter analyzes two tools - HootSuite and CoTweet. I personally use HootSuite at work. - 27 Things to Do Before a Conference
- I like his ideas about researching the conference, other attendees, speakers, etc. If you have a plan of action before even reaching the event, you can get a lot more accomplished. - The ROI of Social Media
- If you have a meeting trying to explain the ROI of social media, this Care2 FrogLoop entry is a must read.
Interesting Links:
- Suitcases for Kids
- A project to get 14,000 suitcases donated by 2010 in order to give every child in foster care in Massachusetts a suitcase so that they don't have to use a plastic garbage bag to move their stuff - BooneOakley Web Site
- This is an advertising agency that created an entire web site out of YouTube videos. It's awesome. Very irreverant, but great.
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