The Nonprofit Twitter Pack: Are you listed?

Flickr photo by Beth

A few weeks ago I was doing a workshop and demoing some of the tools of social media.  I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr.  When I got to showing Twitter, I was met with the usual skepticism.   So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo.

Within in about 5-10 minutes, we had over 100 comments (plus lots of annotations on the photo using the notes feature on Flickr).  This is always powerful to demonstrate the rapid spread of information and the networked effect - and can help open the possiblities.

Chris Brogan started a project called "Twitter Packs" which is a simple list of people who use twitter organized by interests or locations.  The Nonprofit Twitter Pack is here (are you following everyone?).   I think that if we the nonprofit people organize and find each other we can have a richer experience on Twitter.   

The list below is from the Nonprofit Twitter Pack section -- Not on the nonprofit list?  Add yourself here.

http://twitter.com/abenamer

http://twitter.com/aidg

http://twitter.com/acarvin

http://twitter.com/agenthandy

http://twitter.com/ahoppin (online organizing, grassroots, web 2.0 for government, social networks, open-source CMS, etc.)

http://twitter.com/amnesty

http://twitter.com/amoration

http://twitter.com/amyrsward

http://twitter.com/andrewjcohen

http://twitter.com/annaliese_h

http://twitter.com/antigenocide

http://twitter.com/audrieschaller (consultant to nonprofits; board development, communications, web 2.0 adoption for nonprofits)

http://twitter.com/awsamuel

http://twitter.com/Bbravo

http://twitter.com/blogdiva

http://twitter.com/brooklynmuseum

http://twitter.com/cat_laine

http://twitter.com/CoreyPud

http://twitter.com/creativesage (mgmt. consultant for nonprofits, social entrepreneurship, arts and environmental issues)

http://twitter.com/cyrusbryan

http://twitter.com/DaveWebb

http://twitter.com/deborah909

http://twitter.com/eschipul

http://twitter.com/geodog

http://twitter.com/gillo

http://twitter.com/glendam

http://twitter.com/gpuk

http://twitter.com/grist

http://twitter.com/IdentityWoman

http://twitter.com/iwilker

http://twitter.com/jonl

http://twitter.com/jonstahl

http://twitter.com/kanter

http://twitter.com/Katrinskaya

http://twitter.com/Mlsif

http://twitter.com/mstein63

http://twitter.com/mufan96

http://twitter.com/nancywhite (fullcirc.com)

http://twitter.com/nateritter

http://twitter.com/nedra

http://twitter.com/NetSquared

http://twitter.com/noneck

http://twitter.com/ntenhross

http://twitter.com/NurtureGirl

http://twitter.com/NWF

http://twitter.com/onevoicewalk - One Voice Domestic Violence Community Awareness Walk

http://twitter.com/osocio

http://twitter.com/pearlbear

http://twitter.com/penguinasana

http://twitter.com/quixoticlife

http://twitter.com/RobCottingham

http://twitter.com/ruby (lotusmedia.org, OrangePolitics.org, Fellowship of Reconciliation, network-centric advocacy, social networks, etc.)

http://twitter.com/rolfkleef

http://twitter.com/sdohrn

http://twitter.com/shava23 (nonprofit consultant, grantwriter)

http://twitter.com/smartsculture

http://twitter.com/sonnycloward

http://twitter.com/sugarcube (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, JDRF)

http://twitter.com/suzboop

http://twitter.com/TechSoup

http://twitter.com/tet3

http://twitter.com/webb

http://twitter.com/wmacphail (rabble.ca, Alzheimer Society of Ontario, w8nc inc.)

http://twitter.com/steveames Running a small arts organization in Northern Vermont: River Arts

Update: A few more from http://twitter.com/osocio

http://twitter.com/osocio
http://twitter.com/divabat
http://twitter.com/mindofandre
http://twitter.com/ckreutz
http://twitter.com/fundraisingnow
http://twitter.com/HannahSchafer
http://twitter.com/meshugavi
http://twitter.com/bethdunn
http://twitter.com/kivilm
http://twitter.com/morningside
http://twitter.com/SocialBttrfly
http://twitter.com/GPN
http://twitter.com/GPUSA 
http://twitter.com/gpnz
http://twitter.com/alrdesign
http://twitter.com/greenpeace_de
http://twitter.com/GettingAttention
http://twitter.com/greenpeaceindia
http://twitter.com/officialpeta

Comments

[pollyalida]

What a brilliant idea! And fun.

[Tiara]

If you don't work in a non-profit, but you're a big fan of non-profits and the industry, can you still add yourself in there?

[Paul Caplan]

Thanks for the link. Great use of a wiki. I always have difficulty knowing which category or categories to add myself to. Much as I think the 'non profit' world should stick together, I think we need to be careful not to create ghettos. It's easy to talk to each other, what we need to do in the Wiki spirit is connect with people in other networks who maybe have ideas we can bring into campaigns and fundraising and social change. Maybe those twittering around business or human resources or cycling or pig breeding have found ways of harnessing conversations and the power of crowds that we can bring into our work.

[Beth Kanter]

@tiara -- I don't see why not!

@Paul great point about not creating Twitter silos. I think it is a good idea to connect to your field - but also to explore other conversations as well. I love cross disiplinary thinking.

[Kivi Miller]

Just added myself to the pack: http://twitter.com/kivilm

Love your example of taking a photo during the workshop and then turning your network on to it. May have to steal that one for my workshops!

[Beth Kanter]

@kivi when people see examples of themselves - they are more open. What happened is that Chriz and Ponzi shot it out to their network and Chris picked it up -- so a couple of influential twitterers made the dramatic example. However, there were some disrespectful comments that appeared and luckily didn't embarrass one. So, you have to prepared when unleashing the networked effect .. you never know what you'll get.

[Drew bernard]

Nice... now if there was a way to bulk add people to twitter...

[Mich]

Great list and great fun! Although AEJMC is not listed: https://twitter.com/AEJMC

AEJMC is a non-profit association for education in journalism and mass communication.