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In addition to reminding me that I need to get back to the gym, the point about the human brain only having the capacity to pay attention for ten minutes if a good one. I love the frog.
More from Vicky Davis, including some pointers to his videos.
Leslie Madsen Brooks has introduced me to a new term called "EduPunk" that is spreading quickly in the edutech blogosphere and beyond.
In short, edupunk is student-centered, resourceful, teacher- or community-created rather than corporate-sourced, and underwritten by a progressive political stance. Barbara Ganley's philosophy of teaching and digital expression is an elegant manifestation of edupunk. Nina Simon, with her imaginative ways of applying web 2.0 philosophies to museum exhibit design, offers both low- and high-tech edupunk visions.
Edupunk, it seems, takes old-school Progressive educational tactics--hands-on learning that starts with the learner's interests--and makes them relevant to today's digital age, sometimes by forgoing digital technologies entirely.
Stephen Downes has a roundup of the references by other edtech bloggers here. And, of course, here's the short list of EduPunk Heros == of course CogDogBlog is one of them!
This is something for nonprofit technology trainers who developing curriculum and delivering workshops on social media to embrace ...
With Twitter being down so much, I realized how much I'm into a daily check of my replies tab. So, I did a search for @kanter on summize to check. It also gives you a content analysis of the positive/negative. I'm not so sure how they do it. But I'm in the green zone. I wish those squares would link to actual tweets. But, guess it doesn't matter so much since micro conversations have shifted to FriendFeed...
I'm going back for a deep dive ..
I'm catching up on what I've missed over the past few weeks and wanted to point this out. Storytelling is a best practice for fundraising pitches and that's why I think SlideShare is a great tool for causes. The example above isn't the first I've seen of using SlideShare for social fundraising or emergency relief. It comes from the Web Strategist Blog, Jeremiah Owyang. The strategy is use positive photos. (Here's the original post).
There is also a regularly updated slideshow about the number of victims by Oliver Ding who also created the 24 ways to give slideshare below
Other examples of using SlideShare for disaster relief or donations:
Holly Ross wrote a good reflection piece about public conversations on blogs and how to get your audience ready for that conversation. She makes the point:
What I am saying is that your audience may not be ready to have the conversation that social media enables. That's because social media does not just enable conversations. It enables PUBLIC conversations.
I think we have to remember that it takes time build the community to have the conversation and that it doesn't happen right away. You have to be ready as conversation facilitator. Alexandra Samuel did a workshop called "Bringing Your Community to Life" at Netsquared and offered some terrific practical advice about you get the conversation started.
Some key points:
Key points to encourage participation:
And once you activate the conversation, your organization needs to be ready to embrace it. While NetSquared was taking place, another event There's A New Conversation - described as "reflecting on the past 10 years since the publication of the Cluetrain Manifesto and what the next 10 years will be like as more and more of us defect from marketing and join the conversation!" was taking place. Jeremiah Owyang gave a presentation at the event and it was live blogged here.
Much of it comes from the Groundswell book and I am familiar with the content. A new nugget of insight was about how to deal with detractors. Here's the advice from the notes:
Dealing with Detractors.
I wrote about dealing with criticism a while back when a colleague mentioned having to address this on social media sites. I'm curious if how nonprofits that are switched to conversations are dealing with detractors? Have you interacted with these different types of attractors? Care to share your experience? What's your advice?
Hanging with Britt Bravo at NetSquared Conference
Photo by Schipulites
For the past three years, I've had the pleasure of working closely with Britt Bravo at BlogHer and Netsquared. We rarely get any face time. So, it was a welcomed an opportunity to see Britt again earlier this week. I can't say enough how much I enjoy working with Britt - she rocks.
June 11-12th we will both be speaking at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference in Chicago. Britt will be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. I will give a keynote about, "New Media: The Wizard Behind the Curtain," and teaching a session about, "Social Media Game for Nonprofits."
We'll also be at the, "Blogging Birds of a Feather Meet-Up: Green/Social Change" on Friday, July 18th at the BlogHer Conference in San Francisco and I'll also be on a panel on personal fundraising.
As Britt notes in her blog post it seems like there is a group of readers who read both of our BlogHer Blogs, and our personal blogs, so she wanted to reach out and let you know that we'll be in Chicago the week after next and come say hi.
Photo by Laura Whitehead I've known Matthew Saunders for a long time through his work at Westaf. Matthew is a drupal expert and did a presentation at NetSquared. His slides are here. Laura Whitehead took excellent notes here.
I also stumbled across this site called Drupal for End Users.
I'm finally home and off the red eye!
The last leg of the journey was to attend the Netsquared Conference (N2Y3) where three winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge were selected by conference participants. I was on a team of video bloggers who conducted formal interviews with representatives from the 21 featured projects.
I had the pleasure to do a formal interview with Erik Hersman from Ushahidi which took first place. (I got quick lesson from David on how to pronounce it and if I had to announce the winners I would had have to practice it). Erik shared his excitement in a post over at NetSquared.
I did some qik coverage of Marnie announcing the winners and quick reactions from Peter Dietz and Joe Solomon (and team) but the video I found on YouTube is far better.
David and Erik were thrilled!
There were two winners announced for the Case Foundation DonateNow Mashup Challenge:
N2Y3 was a successful, high energy event. Marnie Webb and Daniel Ben-Horin offered a few words at the conclusion of the event. JD Lasica did a more in-depth interview with Marnie Webb during the conference.
One of the key benefits of social media is that you can actually be in two places at the same time. I wanted to attend the session by Alexandra Samuel from Social Signal about community building. I had to finish my video blogging assignments. However, I was able to get the key points from live blog posts and tweets from my colleagues.
Kari Peterson said there were great examples shared in the room (as well as chocolate)
Laura Whitehead did a splendid live blog post at the Netsquared blog as did Ivan Boothe
Key points to encourage participation:
Alexandra's slides will be posted on slideshare - but all accounts it was great participatory experience.
I live blogged the session on Second Life here at Netsquared.
I especially enjoyed Rik Riel's presentation about Global Kids work in Second Life.
I attended a featured project session with MapThis, Ushahidi, and Greener One. Erik Hersmann, White African, mentioned the term "Data Posioning." Later I found this blog post and presentation via Ivan Boothe where he defines it as:
Data poisoning - what happens when your antagonist starts using it?
I twittered this question and other conference attendees either in the room or elsewhere responded:
SteveHeye
the YMCA has faced tax and mission challenge from IHRSA (health and ract club) that distorts and twists our advocacy-data poisoning?
Alan Benamer
re: data poisoining -- see anti-Tibet attacks on nonprofts http://is.gd/mzz
Peter Campbell
We have donors calling us asking why -- is this data poisoning? It's certainly twisting our message.
Earthjustice is dealing w/rightwing blogger saying we are responsible for high gas $$ b/c we're against Alaska drilling.
Joe Cascio
Yeah, it's called Fox News.
Has your organization dealt with "data posioning"? What are the best practices for dealing with it?
I left Australia on Sunday afternoon and arrived in the Bay Area on Sunday morning. I'm here in Silicon Valley for Netsquared Conference and last night the conference got underway. I had an opportunity to eat dinner with the Nonprofit Commons group that will be doing a session. Rik Riel has a write up here.
This morning Vince Stehl gave the morning welcomed. It was followed by each of the 21 projects introducing themselves for two minutes. The next segment was the project carnival where you could walk around and talk to people representing the projects. Here's qik video of what it was like:
I will be doing some video blogging, brief interviews with 5 of the 21 featured projects. The projects I've been assigned to interview are:
Anti-Genocide Action Tracker
Janessa Goldbeck
Greener One
Zoli Piroska
MetaVid
Michael Dale
MoveSmart
Justin Massa
Ushahidi
David Kobia
Well, off to double check my compression settings for QuickTime ...
During my time in Sydney, I spent a day with meeting with the staff at the Powerhouse Museum and Seb Chan who writes the Museum's blog, Fresh + New(er) and who I have had many virtual conversations with via our blogs but have not met face-to-face. I got to meet the entire web team who I interviewed using QIK (see above), got a whirlwind tour of the museum (the Lost in Space Robot is in their collection!) and have an informal workshop with members of the marketing staff and curators. Seb Chan has a good write up here.
The Powerhouse has done ground breaking in integrating social media into their communications and web strategies (most recently they've joined the Flickr Commons) but are also in the process of embracing the groundswell concept and making social media part of their organizational culture. The afternoon workshop was another opportunity for education and discussion about social media and the museum's mission as well as a great example of how you create social change behind the firewall.
I also met and interviewed Dr. Lynda Kelly, Head of Research, Australian Museum who shared some of her recent research on museum participation and online social activities. She took excellent notes about our session and blogged it here.
My flickr photos are here
I'm behind in posting my notes from my visit to Australia and the Connecting Up Conference. So, expect to see a flood of posts over the next weeks.
I was lucky enough to attend a breakout session called "The Fritz and Sauce Method For Dealing With Information Overload" conducted by Stuart Jones from the Old Milang School House Project. Fritz and Sauce is a type of sandwich served to school children in South Australia. Stuart gave a great presentation on how to avoid that awful overwhelmed feeling we feel from dealing with digital information. I think the connection to the Fritz and Sauce sandwich is that you don't need to feel obligated to consume everything.
He asked us to reflect for a few moments about how we feel when we open our email. He then made a list of all the post ways people can communicate with us online - from social networking sites to Skype and others. He observed that many of us simply want to hide. He asked, "Do we give up? How do we deal with the flood of information?"
There
is an old way of thinking that you have to somehow keep up. This is
really what is getting in your way. However if you bathe in the stream
of information you get plenty. The idea is to enjoy the journey, picking up a little bit here or there that might be interesting, but don't obliged to read or consume every detail. Wade through this stream without holding on and the key is not worrying about missing something .... Have a swim, pick up the things you really find useful. Don't worry about getting everything.
He suggested taking a critical look at what type of information you are currently wading through and as much as possible move your swim to RSS. But, also do not feel an obligation to read every post from every feed. Scanning is key. Just browse the headings and read what you want.
I'm not sure if his slides are posted on SlideShare, but I used my Nokia n95 to get some photos here.
Stuart used a wonderful metaphor of swimming in the river of information and picking out what you need, not everything. Another metaphor might be browsing the titles of books in a bookstore, but only taking a closer look at the ones that interest you.
What metaphor might you use to describe your method for avoiding information overload?
Nicola M. Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer
"We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter."
Nicola M. Wells is an activist for immigrant rights. She blogs at Standing Firm for Fair Immigration Reform Movement. She has been passionate about the issue of immigrant rights since 2002, when she worked at Casa del Migrantes in Tijuana, Mexico, a shelter for immigrants and deportees. While there she lived and worked with immigrants from throughout the US and Central America, and they shared their experiences. That experience awakened her desire to make immigration rights her life's work. After she left Mexico she worked with refugee communities in Philadelphia and did research on migrant youth at a research center in Chicago. She has also worked with SOS Racisme, the national immigrant rights organization in Paris, France.
1. Tell me about FIRM.
FIRM, the Fair Immigration Reform Movement is a national coalition of grassroots immigrant rights groups working together for immigrant justice. FIRM is a project of the Center for Community Change, and is staffed by the Center, but it is led and all decisions are made by the Immigrant Organizing Committee, a table of grassroots groups that are the head of FIRM. A listing of these groups is also available on our website. FIRM is currently running the Building America Together Campaign, a national campaign to build the strength of immigrant rights in the US, and to work for just and humane immigration reform.
2. What is your job at Firm?
My first job in the United States after working in France was as an intern with the Center for Community Change on their immigration team helping to create a toolkit on fighting anti-immigrant local ordinances. The immigration team supports a national coalition of grassroots immigrant rights groups, the Fair Immigration Reform Movement. I quickly became integrated into the team as an Organizer for state and local rights.
3. How do you use technology as part of your organizing work?
Though I always had a personal interest in technology and social media, I didn't know how to integrate it into my more traditional organizing portfolio. That all changed after the massive and devastating raids in New Bedford, MA in early 2007. An organizer on our team, George Goehl, went to help the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition in anyway he could.
He immediately saw the need to tell the stories of the families that had been ripped apart by the raids, of children who had lost parents, of mother who weren't sure if they could pay rent or feed their children next week. He started a blog, and asked me to continue the project. I transformed that blog into what is today Standing FIRM and my interest in social media as a tool for organizing skyrocketed from there.
I have spent the last year meeting folks, reading, and testing out social media tools with other organizers. I'm currently co- authoring a guide to these tools for organizers like myself available at the end of this month. In addition to my continued work as State and Local Organizer at FIRM, I am working with non-profits connected to the Center to help them learn about these tools and implement them in their work in effective and productive ways.
4. What are you goals for using social media to support your organizing work?
FIRM has built a social media infrastructure that links together our blog, social network presence, listserv and static website into a coherent network of tools. This infrastructure serves three goals:
1) To generate and promote pro-migrant content, not only created by FIRM, but by our partner organizations and allies across the country; more boradly to be a productive part of the pro-migrant blogosphere that is growing stronger each day
2) To create learning tools for our partner organizations. Our partners may not be able to jumpstart using these tools on their own, and by engaging in FIRM's tools they can learn about social media, take test runs, and figure our what will eventually work best for them
3) To connect with individuals/organizations outside of our current network that are in the fight for immigrant rights- support their work, or create collaborations with them
Those are our goals for FIRM's infrastructure, but we also look to support the programs and projects of others within the immigrant rights movement. Like the new pro-migrant community blog, the Sanctuary.
5. Some staff members who work for nonprofits say that they have difficulty
convincing people in their organizations about the value of social media. How did you organization successfully deploy and adopt these
tools?
It's show and show. Telling people about these tools doesn't really do a lot for us. You have to build something of quality and bring results. That's the importance of goal number 2 for FIRM's social media tools. We've got to help not only our organization, but other organizations to learn about these tools, and the best way to do that is build it. Unfortunately, many people build things, and then forget to tell people how they did it. They show an organization the cool campaign or website, but don't give the organization the tools or insights needed to build their own. That's the importance of the guide I'm helping pull together. Now that FIRM has built stuff, learned stuff, we have to share that knowledge in a comprehensive and useful way.
One of the major obstacles non-profits face is convincing people these tools work. Sure that's important, but honestly in much of my work with organizers on the ground, that is not the main problem. The bigger problem is a lack of staff time. It's not that many of them don't believe, it's that they don't have the time or resources to learn enough to make an educated choice about what tools to use and how. If we really want social media tools to be integrated into our work, we need to figure out new ways to fund staffing for them. When non profits are running five programs, two actions, and leadership development trainings there often aren't resources left for this work. It's up to funders, consultants, and non-profit staff to find creative ways to get resources for social media, and to integrate the tools into our everyday work.
6. Tell me a story about how using a blog, social network, or other social networking tool was of great value to your mission or organization's program.
Social media tools allow FIRM to strengthen a network for immigrant justice, and to further our organizing goals. The key to our success is integrating offline and online organizing relationships. One without the other is never as effective. This lesson hit home for us last year around the vote for the DREAM Act (a bill that would allow undocumented students, brought here as children, to have access to higher education). We had about two weeks before the vote and we were being asked to do "something" using online tools. We got together with our partners at the National Immigration Law Center, and the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and approached (offline) Campus Progress, The United States Student Association, the United We Dream Coalition, and the Campus Democrats asking them to help us reach out to students around the country and get them to organize call-in days to their congressmen in support of the DREAM Act. We wanted to have campuses around the country calling-in on the same days to congress.
Now, if we had about three months of outreach we could have pulled this off, but with only two weeks, we knew we needed to use social media to make things happen big and fast. We set up a facebook group, and started the outreach with our partner organizations. The list of local and state groups that came on board to help push out this effort online is just too long to list here, but believe me there was a massive push to sign up campuses to organize call-in days that was fueled by a unique mixtures of national, state and local groups along with passionate individuals. By the end of about 8 days we had touched something like 17,000 people with our invites and we had signed up over 50 campuses in 22 states to hold call-in days. We offered trainings and materials to each of the campuses in preparation and the organizers did their best to make these days a success. We now have a list of campus organizers across the country that supported DREAM and this action.
It was the connection of our offline and online relationships that allowed this action to take off, and social media tools that greased the wheels for its growth.
7. What's your advice about getting conversation going on your organization's blog? I noticed that you have lots of comments.
It's provocative content that hits the pulse of your audience, as well as filling a necessary niche.
I learned a lot from Think progress as a model for organizational blogging. Think Progress editorializes through interesting content, not necessarily controversial editorials. And it is independent enough from the Center for American Progress that it can cover whichever topics it needs to.
We try to do that with our blog. There are already a ton of great immigrant rights bloggers out there producing amazing content. We needed to find a way for us to fill a gap within the immigrant rights movement that was useful, not redundant. That gap was reporting from the state and local bases as well as the federal fight, and providing informative content. We focus our content on updates and news stories from our partner organizations, and we link to and support the content of other blogs that provide more opinions and editorializing around this subject. Think Progress also stays within the news cycle, by providing time-relevant content our blog remains relevant day to day.
I'm also a big believer in engaging your readers. Bloggers get this, but organizations often forget to reach out with personal emails to individuals that encourage them to post comments on their blog. We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter.
People that see provocative video and news stories on our blog often feel compelled to write on our blog. However, I know that they also take background information that they've learned on our site and use it in their comments and posts on other sites. For us, the most important thing is not the strength of our own blog, but rather the health and vibrancy of the pro-migrant blogosphere and the production of pro-migrant content within a larger network of allies and partners.
The Opportunity Agenda released a report last year saying that progressives dominated every progressive political issue online, except immigration. There is an aggressive anti-immigrant presence online, and we need to build partnerships with others online to fight back. Readers feel that fight, they understand the urgency of this issue, and that motivates them to join the conversation.
8. What blogs do you read by women who write about migrant rights?
Some write pro-migrant blogs, or simply cover immigration as a part of their larger scope. Two women that I've particularly been able to learn a lot from have been Liza Sabater and Marisa Trevino. I owe so much to these women and others.
At the end of the day I'm still learning about this technology right alongside my sisters, and the exciting thing is that more and more women are coming to write about migrant rights and use social media tools for justice each day. The fight continues and our strength grows and that's the reason why I love this work.
Cross-posted at BlogHer
Dr. Lynda Kelley
I'm here in Sydney, Australia and just finished an informal workshop and discussion with Powerhouse Museum staff and other museums. (Will post reflections shortly) I met Dr. Lynda Kelly, a blogger and the Head of Audience Research for the Australia Museum. She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 world. The site is called Museum 3.0.
Many nonprofits are grappling with questions about where to find reliable information about the merits of different tools for a given objective. The key is understanding your audience and their online social activities. The short answer: ask them, do research. During the meeting, she shared some insights from a recently published research study she conducted on the social activities and technographics of people in Australia.
1. Tell me about your research?
We took Forrester's technographics research model and adapted it for Australia, surveying over 2,000 people from Australia. We asked simple questions about their online activities. Other questions were about museum attendance. We compared the findings between non-museum and museum goers. Some key findings: People who visit museums and galleries are engaging in social media and more so than people who don't. The two things they do more than other activities are to post reviews and rate their experiences. They are mostly looking for word of mouth recommendations. (A paper based on the research findings can be found here)
Our research also focused on young adults and their web behavior. We recruited people based on the Forrester online social activity categories and interviewed them about their online participation.
I've done many studies on Web 2.0 activities of visitors, particularly with school students. We are trying to understand what young people are doing online and the implications for exhibit design and marketing. We invited these young people into the museum back of house and asked them for input on how we should represent the museum on the social web. The young people said they wanted a physical experience of interacting with the objects - no screens in the museum. They told us, "We can all the computers and screens at home - we want something we can't get at home - the objects and interacting with people in the physical space."
We brought in a small group of young people and interviewed them about their experience. The telling quote was: "We'll go home and google the answers. We want to be here and look at the museum with our friends." I'm sharing the research notes on the Museum 3.0 site.
2. Can you tell me more about your Museum 3.0 site?
Facebook is interesting to have discussion with peers, but difficult. Many of my peers don't want to "come out on Facebook." (That is let people from work know who their friends are) When someone showed me Ning, I thought it was great to try for a community of practice because it is about the network and a good way to introduce people who are new to social media and give it go. It's much better than sending me an email and having 6 people responding. I've been inviting people at the beginning, but now more and more people are joining.
3. What advice would you offer to other museums and nonprofits who want introduce web2.0 strategies into their programs or marketing?
They have to jump in and start experimenting. There was a great quote. Museums are great at touring exhibitions, but we're not good at touring the web. Go to the people where they are and give it a go.
You've got to have a champion in the organization who can help you get on with it. Have a supportive director is important. We've got to stop saying "no" and say "yes, if." We're moving from No to Yes, If.
We're trying to make that change in the organization now - we're using a private ning site to follow up with a strategic plan. We've had Facebook Fridays - get people in the museum to sign up and we help them. You have to reserve space to let people ask questions like "What is RSS?"
I've been looking for Twitter demographic profiles and just discovered this post from Compete analyzing some recent Twitter data. Here's another survey of how people are using Twitter.
http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/03/reader-poll-how-do-you-use-twitter/
One of the benefits of a long flight is that you can catch up on reading. I took my copy of Here Comes Everyone Along. Here's a video of a recent talk he did and the transcription.
Link via Dean Collins
The talk is transcribed here.
I was sitting in front of Hannah Baral when she asked an amazing question in the session about nonprofits and blogging. Hannah is the Clubs and Student Development Manager at UNSW. She is interested using social media to connect with students. (I had, of course, attempted to live stream a video interview with her using my N95 and QIK, but the Internet connection and I lost the streamed video -- went into the black hole of the Internet!)
So, I took a photo of her business card and am posting the questions here. Please leave a comment so I can share with her.
Please leave you advice in the comments. Thanks
Skip, David's dog
I'm doing a series of blog about lessons learned from nonprofits in adopting social media projects as the Cute Dog Theory. (If you want to do an interview and have a dog, feel free to add your dog to the NpTech Dog Group) David J. Neff is the Director of Web, Film and Interactive Strategy for the American Cancer Society. He has been with the American Cancer Society for seven years since he graduated from college. He agreed to do an interview with his organization's socal media project, SharingHope.tv.
1. Tell me about the project - give me your elevator speech re: project.
SharingHope.TV is the place for people to share their stories around cancer. Whether you
are a survivor, pre-vivors, a caregiver or just someone with a story to tell SharingHope.TV
is the place to share that story in Video, Audio, Artwork or Photos.
2. What were the objectives?
We wanted to give people a good enviroment to share their stories of hope in anyway they wanted. From video to audio to photos. YouTube has like 7 hours of video uploaded every 3 minutes. A firehose of information. We want to be the gardenhose of information. YouTube has tons of trolls and comment spam. We want a friendly enviroment where people can share and learn. I believe our community does just that.
3. How did the project unfold?
We said if we are going to do this let's make it happen. In the American Cancer Society we have a group called the Futuring and Innovations Center. Think of them as Venture Capatlists for non-profits. They liked the idea and funded it within two weeks of me submitting the idea. The within 6 monhts we have a fully functional "Beta" Web Site up adn running. We are doing Beta for 6 months then Gamma then BAM we take the labels off and start advertising.
4. Define how you overcame challenges.
Our biggest challenge was explaining to decision-makers why didn't use an existing platform like YouTube or Flickr or Facebook. We felt that there was not one single platform that caters to the millions of people who care about cancer and want to share their stories. Now hopefully they have that platform. Our main challenge right now? How do we tell people about it? How do I get people to test it and break it and make suggestions. I'm reaching out to bloggers.
5. Let's talk about numbers. How much did it cost? What were the results? How are you measuring them? .
Well the costs are I have to do this all for under $25,000. That's the grant money I have. Right now with hosting and staff time it's costing me about 2,000 a month. The programming was around $4,000. The days of million dollar web sites are dead. Open source and local talent. It's all about that.
We are learning to not give a crap about page view and hits. What I want at the end of the day is number of registered users and number of conversations. What are people commenting on? What discussions are they
having?
6. What advice would you give to other nonprofits?
Video is the future! Imagine a world where your customer tells you what they want ......and you actually listen. It's what we are doing right now.
Here's a few inspiring videos on SharingHope.TV that David would like us to see:
http://www.sharinghope.tv/video/1706386
http://www.sharinghope.tv/video/1857977
Meet Priscilla Brice-Weller who is the Online Campaign Coordinator for Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) which is using social media in many creative ways. Her personal blog, Solidariti, covers technology and nonprofit activism. I've been reading her blog for sometime now and always learn something new. One of my favorite blog posts that she wrote talks about the ladder of engagement and Myspace.
We had an opportunity to meet face-to-face today and take a nice stroll in the Brisbane city park, a botanical garden. We talked about nonprofits, social media, the differences and similarities between Australia and US.
I did an interview on QIK asking her for her advice about nonprofits and adoption of social media tools.
