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 - 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