This topic is fresh in my mind since I just attended the first WeAreMedia workshop.

The workshop highlighted five tactics:

This year's theme for Blog Action Day is Poverty. Who could have predicted that financial woes would be so uppermost in so many people's consciousness this month? But true poverty is more than just struggling to make ends meet. Take a look at the U.S. thresholds for the official definition of poverty. Is there any way you could feed your family at that level? I think it would be tough, even with the help of food stamps or public assistance.

Twitter may be all the rage, but I find it unintuitive and therefore have not heavily adopted it.

With FriendFeed, however, I can keep up on the "tweets" of folks involved in the nonprofit tech/social media space, and get so much more to boot.

What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?

 1) Who in our agency is already excited about social media and social networking?

Getting involved in social media as an organization should not feel like a chore. Let staff who already have a passion for this take the leadership in ways that work for them. Consider clearing other responsibilities from their plate so that they can: