If the more you communicate, the more impact you can have, the more you potentially can create more support for your cause, get donors, etc, should funders look at nonprofits who are communicating more in a more favorable light?

And should every facebook event post, every myspace friend, be counted towards that communication quota?

Or are nonprofits in new media investing program money in something that has yet to show a serious $$ per person return? 

Are funders even looking at communication as something worth supporting?

What is your experience?

Those of you that have seen my first post for the Digital Makeover project will now be familiar with South Yorkshire Funding and Advice Bureau (SYFAB). This latest post and video (at the bottom of the post) take a closer look at how SYFAB provide funding information to the voluntary and community groups that they serve. Information comes from a variety of different sources, and the system has evolved over the last few years as information requirements and the funding landscape have changed. SYFAB are keen to streamline their system and incorporate valuable feedback from their service-users into their service. Is there a web-based solution here?

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http://theraiser.blogspot.com/

i would love to figure out how to use all these new technologies to make our work easier and more effective, bu who pays for implementing all these fabulous tools and technologies? Even with open source software, low capacity and grassroots nonprofit organizations like mine still have to identify a staff person or key volunteer to implement, manage and support the technolgy. How do I identify that person? how do i motivate current staff and volunteers to add one more responsibility, one more task to an already overscheduled, overfull agenda? Where do i find qualified volunteers who are both motivated and committed to such a large task? how do I manage and supervise them?I think that many of these tools are merely tools for technoogy's sake - without any real vison about who will actually use them.The real digital divide is between organizations - those of us who deveote all our energy to our programs just don't have the resources to implement new technologies.