Social Media Reading - 073109

Tips and Tricks

• CharityHowTo.com shows nonprofits how to use Facebook

Webinars and Conferences

• Social Media Breakfast 15: The Power & Peril of Online Communities - 8/7/09 8:30 AM - Watertwon, MA - $7.99
• Social Media and Your Website - 8/4/09 11 am Pacific - Webinar - $30 NTEN members / $60 non-members

Social Media Reading - 073009

• New Study Shows How Different Generations Use Facebook - Great graphs broken into Generation Z, Generation Y, Generation X, Baby Boomers, WWII Generation. 
• Lupus Foundation Success Facebook Success Story 
• A Facebook success story from the Lupus Foundation of America

Webinars and Conferences 

• IT Roundtable hosted by NTEN - 7/31/09 11 am

What Else I'm Reading 

• 10 Twitter Crimes that will get you unfollowed

Social Media Reading - 072909

Webinars and Conferences

• Information Overload Awareness Day - August 12, 2009 11 am Eastern - $50 

Twitter Launches New Home Page

• Official Twitter Blog: New Front Page
• TechCrunch: New Twitter Homepage Goes Live with Search Front and Center
• Searchblog: New Twitter Homepage

Pre-Launch

• BoomTown: Exclusive: Twitter to Debut a New Main Home Page Next Week

Social Media Reading - 072809

Webinars and Conferences

• The Power of Customer Influence: Mobilizing and Engaging Your Customer Base - Free - Webinar - 07/29/09 11 AM Pacific 

Microsoft and Yahoo Search Partnership

• Mashable: Microsoft on Yahoo Deal: "Nobody Gets It"
• Paidcontent.org: Reports: Microsoft, Yahoo Reach Search Partnership; No Upfront Payment

Social Media Reading - 072709

• Study: Who's on Which Social Nets - Great graph as part of the article sorted/grouped by age

Webinars and Conferences

• Introduction to Blogging for Nonprofits and Libraries - TechSoup - August 6, 2009 - Free 
• How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use Facebook and YouTube - August 18, 2009 10 AM Pacific- $40 

What Else I'm Reading

• The Top 100 Web Sites of 2009
• So Long and Thanks for All the Whales - @coreypud discusses why he isn't all that enthusiastic about Twitter anymore 
• Twitter Updates Officially Become Tweets
• Crunchpad or Apple Tablet? Why I'm Leaning Crunchpad ... - Louisgray.com talks about why he might choose a TechCrunch table over an Apple tablet 
• Winery's 'dream job" idea leaves an aftertaste - Winery encouraged job applicants to get their networks to vote for them without acknowledging that the votes would not ultimately decide who became a top applicant 

Social Media Reading - 072609

Tips and Tricks

• Fenton's Best Practice Guides

Webinars and Conferences 

• Lunch & Learn: Social Media Bootcamp - August 17, 2009 - $40 - Sunnyvale, CA
• Agency Bootcamp on Social Media - July 27, 2009 - Free - New York City

# Chats 

• #4Change Chat 
• 7/23 - Revolutionary Social Media

What Else I'm Reading

• Are Tweets Copyright-Protected
• Are you making it easy for your members to volunteer? - Recommends using short-term social media style assignments to get people engaged and then they will hopefully be interested in more 
• No Doubts: Women are Better Managers
• Average Twitter user has 126 followers, and only 20% of users go via website

Social Media Reading - 072509

Tips and Tricks

• Tweeting from the Web? Nine Alternative Web Clients - TechCrunch evaluates 10 web-based Twitter applications - including the Twitter site - and their usefulness on 10 criteria. 
• D.C.'s Miriam's Kitchen rides social media wave - Miriam's Kitchen uses Twitter to raise money, build community and recruit volunteers

Webinars and Conferences 

• Taking Action for Animals - July 24-27, 2009
• Creativity, Collaboration & Community - Three Words to Sum Up the TAFA Conference

What Else I'm Reading 

• Need a Job? Show Them You Can Twitter
• Socially engaged companies are in fact more financially successful
• The importance of nonprofit branding
• Knowledge Sharing & Ambient Intimacy
• Facebook Posts Update About Advertising Policy
• Viral Facebook Message Brings Issue of Ad Endorsements Into Spotlight

Social Media Reading - 072409

Tips and Tricks

• Twitter 101 - Learning the Lingo (From Twitter!) 

Webinars and Conferences 

• Social Media for Social Change - Held 7/24/09 
• Blogs
• Social media and non-profits ... before - Preview blog 
• Transcripts 
• Live Blog Transcript from @Sarvay
• What the Hashtag Transcript
• Presentations
• Social Media for Social Good: Progress and Predictions from @gradontripp
• YouTube: Strategic Leadership and Social Media for Social Good [video]
• Jon Newman presentation from @jonnew
• Web Sites Mentioned at Conference
• Connect Southside
• Social Media Landscape graphic
• The Popularity Platform
• Connect Richmond: Running a Non-Profit - A running list of online tools for running a non-profit including social media guides

What Else I'm Reading 

• Why I Unsubscribed from Every Blog

Social Media Reading - 072309

• The 5 emails you need to write today! - Step away from all your social media tools (after you read this blog) and go write some emails. 

What Else I'm Reading

• How to Get Auction Item Donations (Without Cold Calling!)
• Thinking of Hiring a Social Media Consultant
• OSCON: Standing out in the crowd - Kirrily Robert talks about women in the open source community

Social Media Reading - 072209

• Sierra Club Capitalizes on Sanford's Shenanigans - Analysis by the NonProfit Times regarding the email blast that Sierra Club sent out advertising their trail guides. The manager of online communication from Sierra Club says that they have had very little negative feedback. 

Tips and Tricks

• How to use Seesmic Web with Fluid [video]
• Seesmic Introduces a Web Application [video]

Webinars and Conferences

• 10 steps to Nonprofit Success on Twitter - Slideshare Archive 

What Else I'm Reading

• Social Media Marketing Makes More Money 

Social Media Reading - 072109

• How Nonprofits Are Using Video Online: 20 Examples - Love the stand up for cancer idea as it can be used a variety of ways.  
• Andy's Answers: Cisco's tips to get executives involved in social media - Ideas from the director of new media at Cisco about how she has encouraged executive use of social media at the company. 
• I Got a Job - Rachel Levy has been blogging this past year about job hunting using social networking. She recently accepted a job with a consignment chain. 

What Else I'm Reading

• 10 Impressive New Implementations of Facebook Connect
• Best Buy Goes All Twitter Crazy with @Twelpforce - Another example of a large company implementing a Twitter strategy

Social Media Reading - 072009

Webinars and Conferences

• Community Leadership Summit - Held July 18-19, 2009 - San Jose, CA 
• Videos on YouTube
• 2009 New York Non-Profit Conference - August 12-13, 2009 - New York City - $729
• NTEN's Online CIO Conference - 2-day virtual conference - Sept. 16-17, 2009 - $250 (NTEN Members / $350 Non-members)
• TechSoup Write-Up
• Shaking up Journalism and Philanthropy - Online discussion at the Chronicle of Philanthropy - July 30, 2009 3:30 pm
• What's the Payoff? Social Media ROI - Online discussion at the Chronicle of Philanthropy - July 21, 2009 12:00 PM EST
• #blogchat - Social Media ROI - July 19, 2009  
• Beth's blog - Now that Engagement is Fully Measured, It's Time to Count the Treasure

Social Media Reading - 071909

• Who Should Lead the Customer Social Media Interaction - Social media should be done by the departments that would normally do those functions - marketing in social media by marketing and customer service by those who know customer service. 
• The ROI of Online Customer Service Communities - Analysis of the economic impact of social media from Forrester ($1999) 
• Why People Go Online - 100% of people said they go online to pass the time. Only 26% go online to join a cause. 72% go online to be part of a community. 
• Managing in Tough Times - Article from The Bridgespan Group regarding managing a non-profit during a down economy [pdf]
• A Nonprofits Guide to Building Simple, Low-Cost Websites - From TechSoup
• Tips for Designing (or Redesigning) a Nonprofit Web Site
• Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch
• Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Tips and Tricks

• Facebook Pages: An Insider's Guide - From April 2008 but still has some good information. 

Webinars and Conferences 

• TechSoup ReadyTalk: Using Mobile Technologies for Outreach and Education - Archive - Free
• LRN about TXT - great blog wrapup of the webinar

Social Media Reading - 071809

Tips and Tricks

• Good.ly: A tiny URL service for charity - Interesting concept. I wish their charities list was longer and/or they were tied into Guidestar.

What Else I'm Reading

• Homeless advocate brings his message to the masses through social media 
• Requested Recommendations on Social Networks: Why I Won't Do It
• First Impressions: Why Would Someone Want to be VP of Social Media at Ketchum
• How to market a movie in the Twitter era
• Engaging Your Employees with Emotional Benefits
• Twitter Clips Hundred of Followers from High Profile Accounts
• Twitter Changes API, Fails to Notify Developers - Another example of Twitter's failure to communicate
• Giving is the New Getting: How it Changes Everything
• Between Selfish Giving and Doing Good: 7 Tips for Authentic Cause Marketing

Social Media Reading - 071709

• Amazon Remotely Deleted Items from People's Kindle Devices
• Mashable: Big Brother: Amazon Remotely Deletes 1984 from Kindles
• Mashable: Amazon: We Won't Remotely Delete Books Again
• Wall Street Journal: An Orwellian Moment for Amazon's Kindle
• NY Times: Some E-Books are More Equal Than Others
• Community Guy: The Problem With the Kindle
• InformationWeek: Amazon Says it Will Stop Deleting Kindle Books
• Mashable: Amazon CEO: Deleting Your Kindle Books Was "Stupid, Thoughtless"
• USA Today: Amazon.com CEO apologizes for Orwell incident
• Engadget: Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework
• Canada: Facebook Doesn't Comply With Our Privacy Laws - According to Canada, Facebook's privacy information is too confusing and that it doesn't like their data retention policy. 
• 12 Ways to Use LinkedIn Today - Great ideas to get the most out of your LinkedIn profile

Tips and Tricks

• 7 Things I Like About Seesmic's Browser Client

Social Media Reading - 071609

Tips and Tricks

• 16 Reasons to Use Posterous

Social Media Reading - 071509 Part Two

• Google Reader Adds New Features
• Mashable: Google Reader Gets a Social Makeover, Adds Likes and Followers
• Louisgray.com: Google Reader Improves Link Blog Discovery, Adds Likes
• Google Reader Makes Reading More Social
• Regular Geek: FriendFeed is Getting Ripped Off
• Twitter Hacked
• Official Twitter Blog: Twitter, Even More Open Than We Wanted 
• Context: TechCrunch Posts Twitter's Reality Show Pitch
• TechCrunch: Twitter's @EV Confirms Hacker Targeted Personal Accounts; Attack was "Highly Distressing
• Mashable: Twitter's Security Meltdown
• SiliconAngle: Why the Hand-Wringing over #twittergate? Because We're Not All Journalists
• Fast Company: Twitter's Stolen Documents Raises Ethics Questions
• Backlash Against "Mommy Bloggers" accepting free stuff 
• PR Blackout Challenges Mom Bloggers to Return to Basics

Webinars and Conferences

• Free Webinar: Using Mobile Technologies for Outreach and Technology - 7/16/09 - Free - Webinar

What Else I'm Reading 

• Aid Group Apologizes for Botched Clothing Distribution
• WholeFoodsMarket gains a million followers with lame twitter contest

Social Media Reading - 071309

• Is your social media expert really an expert? The top 25 ways to find out - Great post about the problems with folks calling themselves "experts" and wanting to sell you on their services. If they sound like a spammer, even if they are talking social media, they might be a spammer. 
• Huffington Post: Women Who Tech - I'm not sure why this took two months to write up, considering the telesummit was back in May. But, it's a good write-up. 

Tips and Tricks

• How To: Retweet on Twitter

What Else I'm Reading

• Viewers will pay for online video
• Learning from Goodwill's Success

Social Media Reading - 071209

• Since When Are Blogs Not Social Media - Are blogs part of social media or are they distinct and separate? 
• GM Leading the Way? - Another excellent blog by Frank (@comcastcares). The importance of speed, accountability and customer service.
• General Motors fails online using only email marketing - A blog about GM's use of social media which includes a comparison between how Ford, GM, and Chrysler are using social media

Webinars and Conferences

• Guy Kawasaki - Building Your Business With Social Media - Prerecorded Webinar - $19.99 
• Tips and Tools for finding and Converting New Donors Online - Care2 - 7/30/09 2 PM - Webinar - Free 

Tips and Tricks

• 5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter - The biggest takeaway for me is the timing issue. I tend to do a lot of tweets at night, but that should really be happening during the day. Time to schedule more tweets. 
• Using Online Video for Outreach - Research your audience, define your message, prepare outreach
• How to Make a Facebook Page in Less Than Four Minutes - Great video tutorial by John Haydon

What Else I'm Reading 

• 5 Ways to Get Your Question Answered on Twitter
• Fortune: Bing vs. Google: Consumers Can't Tell a Difference 

Social Media Reading - 071109

• Society for New Communications Research Announces Study that Shows Nonprofits are Leading the Way in Social Media Adoption
• Society for New Communications Research: Press Release
• Case Foundation: Non-profits take the plunge into social media, outpace Fortune 500
• The Lend4Health Journey: Social Media - Tori Tuncan talks about how she uses Twitter to help raise awareness for her site Lend4Health. The site coordinates micro-loans for children with autism.
• Seesmic Offers New Web Based Application 
• LouisGray.com: Seesmic's Web Offering is the Best Twitter Browser Interface Yet
• How to Use the Seesmic Web App for Twitter
• Why Seesmic rocks - Loic pitches features and benefits

Social Media Reading - 071009

• Cause's Hit's $10M in donations - 2 Years, 192K donors, median donation was $25
• Cause's Blog
• A. Fine Blog: Causes of Facebook: An Update and Lessons
• Chronicle of Philanthropy: Facebook's Causes Eclipses $10-Million
• Help a Community Organizer Out - A new website from the same folks that brought you "Help a Reporter Out" 
• 8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog
• A Day In the Life of a Twintern - An interview on Slate about the intern from Pizza Hut who manages their Twitter account

Conferences and Webinars

• Integrating Video Into Your Nonprofit Website - Provided by See3 - Webinar - Free

Tips and Tricks

• Top 7 Twitter Tutorials on YouTube
• Free social media video tutorials on iTunes - Subscribe to John Haydon's video tutorials and watch on your iPod or iPhone. 
• TidyTweet: Twitter Search Without the Spam

Social Media Reading - 070909

• The Longest Tweet in History: 247 Characters
• News Corp won't buy Twitter, won't sell MySpace
• NFL Says "No" to Players Tweeting During Games
• Embedding a YouTube Video May Cost You a Bundle in ASCAP Bills

Tips and Tricks

• Social Media Today: The "Must-Have" Tool Kit of the Social Media Citizen - Great ideas ... I already use several of the things on the list. 
• Harvard Business Publishing: Ace the Interview
• How to Write a Resume That Doesn't Annoy People
• The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received

Webinars and Conferences 

• Techsoup archive: Introduction to Social Media & Fundraising
• Webinar Recap

Social Media Reading - 070809 Part Two

• Facebook adds easy way to post fan box on web site sites
• Mashable - Facebook Fan Boxes: Embeddable Facebook Pages
• Facebook launches "Fan Box"
• Inside Facebook: Facebook Releases New "Fan Box" Widget to Turn Website Visitors into Facebook Fans
• 70-Year-Old Charity Adopts a New Name - This is something we've dealt with at EMQ FamiliesFirst. Because we've gone through several names over our 100 year history, it's challenging at times to get the brand recognition. 
• Nonprofit Blogs: 5 Reasons You Do & Don't Need One

Tips and Tricks

• Small Pebbles Make Big Waves: 15 tips for fundraising on Twitter
• My Five Favorite Twitter Tools

What Else I'm Reading 

• Jackson memorial gives web boost

Social Media Reading - 070809

• Nonprofit Blogging: Goals, Strategy and Tactics to Crush It - Really great ideas from Frank Barry on non-profit blogging. Comments are a must read. Too many NPs and businesses jump into the strategy and the tactics without doing the goals and planning before starting a blog. 
• Great post by Kivi from back in October, 2008: What Type of Blog Should Your Non-Profit Write?
• Should Kiva have expanded loan coverage to US entrepreneurs? 
• KivaFriends discussion
• Chronicle of Philanthropy: Adding U.S. Entrepreneurs Proves Controversial
• Microfinance in the U.S.: Kiva Enters the Market at its Own Risk
• How I Raised $30K in 30 Days - Great ideas for a successful online fundraiser. 

Webinars and Conferences

• Introduction to Social Media & Fundraising - 7/9/09 10 am PST - Free - Webinar
• What's Fascinating About Market Researchers - 7/21/09 10 am PST - Free - Webinar
• July / August Ruby Workshop - 7/31-8/1 - San Francisco 
• Ruby Jumpstart (women only) - 8/1-8/2 - Washington, DC

Twestival Planning: 

• Seattle - Tweetup - 7/13/09 

Social Media Reading - 070709

• Google announces new Chrome OS 
• Mashable: Breaking: Google to Launch Operating System
• Mashable: Google Chrome OS: Will It Kill Windows?
• Louisgray.com: Google Says Yes to Launching an OS (Based on Chrome)
• Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
• Mashable: Chrome OS: But Will it Run Photoshop?
• Valleywag: Google's 'War' With Microsoft is a Shell Game
• Mashable: The Cartoon That Predicted Google Chrome OS
• Google Chrome OS: Opening a vein in Redmond
• Google vs Microsoft: A Guide to the Battle
• Mashable: The Google Revenue Equation, and Why Google's Building Chrome OS 
• PC Magazine: Google's Chrome OS: Maybe not a "PC" OS After All
• Tips for a great nonprofit newsletter - All really great ideas. 
• Gmail / Google Apps No Longer in Beta 
• Official Gmail blog: Gmail leaves beta, launches "Back to Beta" launch feature
• Official Google blog: Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)
• Lifehacker: Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, and Talk Leave Beta
• Kids take over Acumen Fund on Take your Kids To Work Day [video] 
• Internet radio providers finalize deal with copyright groups - Pandora adjusts terms of use 
• Free Pandora listeners will get 40 hours free listening - and unlimited listening will be $0.99 
• Mashable: Internet Radio Gets a New Deal; Pandora Adjusts Accordingly
• Online radio stations strike big deal on royalties
• NY Times: Music Labels Reach Online Royalty Deal

Social Media Reading - 070609

• Alice Hoffman Blew it Again - Alice Hoffman is a novelist who received a bad review. She vented on Twitter, including calling the reviewer names. She felt her venting had been blown out of proportion and then deleted her Twitter account. This article explores why all of those decisions were wrong.

Facebook Fan Pages

• Big Duck NY - Smart communications for non-profits 
• Non-Profit Marketing Guide

Social Media Reading - 070509 Part Three

• Non-Profits Why Not Enlist a Social Media Army - The benefits of getting your volunteers to help with your social media projects - your "Army"
  

Tips and Tricks

• Video Tutorial: How do I Twitter my Flickr photos?
  

What Else I'm Reading

• How to Blog Like a Beginner
• Not-for-Profit Management May 2009 - Magazine out of Australia for non-profit management
• Evan Williams on Listening to Twitter Users [video]

Social Media Reading - 070509 Part Two

• Socialbrite - A new web site from Beth Kanter (@kanter), John Haydon (@johnhaydon) and others to share best practices about social media for organizations working on social change.
  
• Scobleizer - Improving the world, social media style, on socialbrite
• 9 tips for optimizing a nonprofit site - Great ideas for search engine optimization (SEO). It's an easy read and boiled down to 9 quick points.
• Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter - I love the comment about how the marketers have been really smart about getting your friends / people you follow to spam you instead of doing the spam themselves.
• Is Twitter worth it for small town businesses - Great ideas for small businesses that can also be applied to small non-profits. Start with your existing fans / donors and build from there.
  

Webinars and Conferences

• Women Leaders for the World - December 6-11 - Sponsored by Santa Clara University
  

Tips and Tricks

• Twitter Better: 20 Ways to Filter Your Tweets
  

What Else I'm Reading

• Observations: Mobile applications development
• Word Frequency Visualization of Sarah Palin's Resignation Speech
• And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky new CIO Wants to Put All Gov't Info Online
  

Social Media Reading - 070509

• Leveraging A Facebook Business Page - A quick 5 minute introduction on how to use Facebook fan pages to promote your business
  
• Should Twitter Crack Down on Pornography - Best part of the article are the comments. The problem really isn't with pornography but with spammers in general. Twitter needs to put systems in place to help combat the spammers and the pornography will get caught in the net.
  
• Social Networks Complicate Relations Between Bosses and Employees - Should you become friends with your boss on Facebook? Should your employer be allowed to hold something against you if you post something to Twitter or another social media program?
• Compassion without Borders International Dog Rescue - Compassion without Borders rescues dogs that are abused or neglected in Mexico.
• Would You Pay for Twitter? - What would pay for in regards to a "premium" Twitter account? If Twitter doesn't jump on this, other services are going to do them and benefit financially.
• 3 Common Social Media Mistakes - The main tone of the article is that companies are jumping into social media too fast and putting too much an investment.
  

Webinars and Conferences

• Institute of Fundraising National Convention
• Follow on Twitter - #iofnc
  
• RebootBritain - Sponsored by NESTA
• Follow on Twitter - #rebootbritain
• Event Wiki
  
• Are social entrepreneurs key to rebooting Britain?
  

What Else I'm Reading

• Has the recession affected charitable giving - A blog about the report on how the recession has affected charitable giving in India
• Twitter's Ten Rules for Radical Innovators
  

Interesting Points from Marketing Profs Twitter Power Seminar (7/2/09)

Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time

• 35% of Fortune 500 companies are on Twitter
  
• Tweets are about bringing value to a conversation
  
• Primary Twitter users are 30-50 years old
  
• Twitter is used to build relationship, engage with your marketplace, build circle of influence one tweet at a time
• Build your brand on Twitter - ask questions, provide answers, share interesting sayings, RT, compliment others, market
  
• Use LinkedIn to connect with people and then take the conversations with those people to Twitter
  
• TwitterPower.com
  
• Joel Comm - Tweet like you eat: When you need it and have something to say

Social Media Reading - 070409

• Protect Your Privacy on Facebook - 10 Privacy Settings You Should Consider - Great ideas for those interested in increasing their levels of privacy on Facebook
• The Looming Facebook Privacy Fiasco - Facebook wants users to share more information to be able to use that information and be more competitive. Thankfully, Facebook isn't doing all of this at once. It's doing a test of 40K. Another test of 80K and then rolling it out to the wider user base. By the time it rolls out, people should be well aware of how it will impact them.
• How Wimbledon Uses Mass Appeal for Philanthropy - When fans leave the stadium, they have the right to give away their tickets. Wimbledon then resells those tickets to fans who come late. The proceeds are donated to charity.
  

Fundraising on Social Media

• tweet to ReMIND - A Bob Woodruff Foundation Initiative encouraging everyone to donate $5.25 to support the troops
  

What Else I'm Reading

• Sarah Palin Shuns Press: Talks to Twitter, Facebook Instead
• NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space in Espanol - @astro_jose is tweeting about the astronaut experience in both English and Spanish
• Why I and Podoby Else is Nerfect
• Police using Twitter, Nixle to keep residents in the loop
• Statue of Liberty is on Twitter and offers insider's e-tours
• TweetCraft: Finally, You Can Tweet While You Raid - There is a new plug in that allows you to tweet while you play World of Warcraft
  

Social Media Reading - 070309

• Tweet This: Twitter Trademarks Tweets(TM) - Brian Solis discusses the recent decision by Twitter to file for trademarks on "Tweet"
• Fees for Volunteering - Idealist.org is soliciting opinions on how volunteer opportunities which charge of fee should list those fees and what they cover on their search results
• Authorize.net Goes Down - Due to a major fire in Seattle, several Internet services went down on Friday. Authorize.net used Twitter to keep it's customers up to date on their efforts to get the service back online.
• Google's New Layout: Love it or Hate it? - When you're the largest search engine, even minor changes to your layout face critique. I don't see much difference and probably wouldn't have even noticed if it hadn't been brought to my attention.
• Will social media burn conferences to the ground? - I don't think so. The networking part of attending a conference is too invaluable. I think that conferences that forbid tweeting and blogging are just being tyrants.
  

Conferences and Webinars

• Fundraising by Mail with Sandy Rees - Free - 7/8/09 3 pm EST - Teleseminar
• New Organizing Institute: Bootcamp09 - Following on twitter at #bootcamp09
  

What Else I'm Reading

• Want the Obama "Hope" Artwork on your iPhone? Nope, Says Apple - Another strange decision by Apple to deny an application entry into it's App store.
• New York Pastor Resigns - Pastor resigns after controversy over his compensation.
  

Social Media Reading - 070209 Part Two

• 10 Ways to Find People on Twitter

What Else I'm Reading:

• Author Apologizes for Twitter Outburst About a Bad Review - Just like with email, you should always take a deep breath before you hit send
  
• Touching Hearts TV Show
• Road ID Tour de France Contest - Predict who will win a stage of the Tour de France and win $1K ($250 for you and $750 from a list of charities [ASPCA, Livestrong Arthritis Foundation, Susan G. Komen, and others])
• Family Giving Tree: Back to School Drive
  

Social Media Reading - 070209

• 1 image, the new resume - A very cool graphical representation of a resume
• 5 Tools NonProfits Can use Today to Enhance Their Online Presence and Efficiency - David Neff (he works for the American Cancer Society) talks about his 5 top online tools for non-profits
• Got a Minute? Set Some Government Data Free With Transparency Corps
• National Conference on Volunteering and Service: Report and Videos!
• Facebook's Complete Privacy Presentation - Rolled out to initial 40k users, than 80k, then rollout to rest of the Facebook userbase
  
• Twitter Following Interface Changes - I love the ability to see the last tweet from the user. It's a great way to see if they are a spammer. Would like even more features.
  

Conferences and Webinars

• Content Creation Strategies: Making the Most of Your Writing, Photos and More - 7/23/09 - Free - Webinar
  

What Else I'm Reading

• Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit
• Facebook's Twitter-Like Transition Begins With New Privacy Options
• The Joost Story: Sometimes, Good Projects Also Fail - Mashable talks about what caused online video sharing site Joost to fail
  

Social Media Reading - 070109

• MythBuster uses Twitter to fight $11,000 phone bill - The man behind @donttrythis and AT&T becoming a trending topic in June, talks about how he managed to get an $11k bill from AT&T, the power of Twitter to force AT&T's hand, and encourages other social media users to do the same.
• A Day With 400 Tweets Starts With Simplicity - @comcastbonnie, a customer service rep for Comcast, describes how she manages her Twitter activity. She responds to several hundred tweets a day.
  

Tips and Tricks

• The Benefits of Using Twitter for Fundraising - Case study on how a micro-fundraising organization helped fund one of their projects using Twitter.
• Edit, Remove and Respond to Reviews - A breakdown on a site-by-site basis (yelp, citysearch and many more) about how an owner of a company and respond to negative reviews.
• Everything you need to know about today's Facebook announcement - Overview of the 7/1/09 Facebook announcement, including what's happening on the privacy settings page.
  

Webinars and Conferences

• Women in Tech Meetup - 7/8/09 - Free - South San Francisco, CA
• Social Media Club SFSV - 7/11/09 - $65 - SF to Sonoma
  

What Else I'm Reading

• Twitter to Developers: "Tweet" Your Heart Out, But Don't "Twitter" It - News from TechCrunch about Twitter protecting its trademarks
• Twitter Increases API Limit - Increase from 100 to 150. Comments so far show that Twitter applications are working better.