During Blackbaud's 2009 Conference for Nonprofits , Melanie Mathos and I lead a two-part social media workshop. Part I of this pairing was a new session we developed called 50 Social Media Tactics Nonprofits Use to Meet Their Mission . It was a real blast delivering this content, and people seemed...

I can't believe our 10th Conference for Nonprofits is just a few days away! There's still so much to get ready, but I'm really getting psyched to see all the peeps coming into town. And while networking is a key benefit of BBCon, it's really the sessions that everyone is excited about...

OK, who's ready to get their #bbcon on? Cool, I'm glad you're with me! Using social media at events feels like it has become the norm. That said, if you're still getting your feet wet when it comes to tweets and hashtags, a tech event like Blackbaud's Conferene for Nonprofits is a...

This is a follow-up to Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0) that originally appeared on this blog and also as a guest post on Beth Kanter's blog . One of the key takeaways from Part 0 is that once you stop just playing around with social media then you need to start putting together a strategy...

During our conference we discussed segmentation and social media. Here are excerpts from those discussions. In particular delegates acknowledged that the demographics of their audience are evolving, whilst attendance had generally held well throughout the economic downturn (to date). Social Media / Networking...

Blackbaud has been doing another web seminar series. This one is all about Social Media for Nonprofits . This series will give you all the tools you need to fill your social media toolkit! Internet experts Jeff Patrick, president of Common Knowledge , and Frank Barry, managing consultant for Blackbaud...

Social Media is another powerful communication channel just like person-to-person, telephone, direct mail, email, web, and text messaging. Social Media is different from traditional broadcast media, like newspapers, television, and film, because it allows user-generated dialog. Social Media is closely...

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education ( CASE ) recently released a report called "Click Here to Donate: Results of the CASE 2009 Survey of Online Fundraising." The report was prepared by Dr. Chris Thompson, former CASE Senior Research Director, and respected nonprofit consultant...

Marketing maven Seth Godin often discusses the nonprofit sector in his books, blog entries, and speeches. He created a nice little uproar yesterday in the nonprofit social media world with a blog post called "The problem with non" that said: "Did you start or join this non-profit because...

There's no such thing as a social media expert - it's impossible to know it all. Every day we learn new tricks from each other, and a robust network is needed to make this happen. I've often cited Twitter as the "best professional development platform out there", but social nets...