Ten Web2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes To Be A More Successful Nonprofit Professional
Stephen Downes points to Lisa Neal's "Ten Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes To Be A More Successful E-Learning Professional." He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional. So, I'm remixing this memo into
Ten Web2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be A Better Nonprofit Professional. I'm only going to write one and then ask the twitterverse to add on to it.
1. Set up a twitter account. Go to the nonprofit twitter pack find and follow ten people who may learn something from.
Great idea, Beth. Love the practical tips.
Personal testimonial:
I was a huge anti-tweeter since the service was launched until about a month ago. I've since converted to the virtues of Twitter-ous-ness. Highly recommend creating an account and keeping up with your brilliant friends and colleagues. (you know, like Beth Kanter :-)
These technologies are helping us to create an information and intimacy revolution, not driving us to interact less as some purport.
Posted by: Jake Brewer | March 28, 2008 at 05:49 PM
Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community.
Posted by: Deborah Zanke | March 28, 2008 at 05:50 PM
Whilst I understand why you wrote 10 people, since it goes well with 10 minute theme, I'm still thinking the number should be higher for them to understand the true potential of twitter for personal learning. And an important part of twitter is using an instant notification application that notifies you easily of the messages - which is definitely hard to explain to someone new :) and would it really fit into the 10 minute rule?
No 2. Set up a Google Reader account and start reading/commenting non-profit blogs? Perhaps you could set up an OPML of non-profit blogs that they could import?
Posted by: Sue Waters | March 28, 2008 at 05:51 PM
Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "sector" and comment on a few blog posts a week.
Posted by: Gregory Heller | March 28, 2008 at 06:37 PM
Great idea to solicit ideas like this - practicing what you preach!
Posted by: Lisa Neal | March 28, 2008 at 07:51 PM
Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) them how to promote your cause. For many in the boomer bracket, this is all new...but so important to integrate into traditional marketing and fundraising efforts.
(And yes, love the twitter pack for npos!!!)
Posted by: Anne | March 28, 2008 at 07:53 PM
1) Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. Use a video player (I work at rapouts.com which has a really effective player, but any player is fine). Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!!
Tyler
Posted by: Tyler Willis | March 28, 2008 at 08:30 PM
Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts at http://del.icio.us, agree on a tag which is not used in twitter by anyone but your team and start building a bookmarking collection for your organisation. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us application in your Facebook account. Collective bookmarking is an extremly powerful learning tool!
Posted by: Johannes | March 29, 2008 at 05:28 AM
Want to know buzz? Use tools like Technorati, Bloglines, and Forum Tracker to monitor what people are saying about your organization as well as to find new marketing leads to contact with your messages and stories of hope.
Want inspiration? Search YouTube and Flickr for descriptive keywords that are part of your mission statement to see what your target audiences might find compelling and inspirational.
Want to know how you compare? Go to Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast to see how your site ranks with your partners and competitors. Then take a look at SEOMoz's wonderful PageStrength tool @ http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength to learn about your success in search engine optimization as well as a summary of where you need to improve.
Want to learn from the best of the best? Visit SlideShare and read through great presentations on just about any topic.
Want to know the latest and greatest in the world of nonprofit technology and social media? You're reading the right blog right now! :)
Posted by: Jonathon D. Colman | March 29, 2008 at 06:00 AM