Have you dreamt up a great program for generating new revenue streams or providing new services at your organization, but you don’t know how to implement your idea and build support for it? If you answered “yes!” this webinar can help.
 

You’ve heard that a technology plan can help you budget and better plan for future technology acquisitions, but with everything else you do all day, who has the time? Come to this TechSoup and WebJunction presentation where we’ll share tips, tools, and tales from folks who’ve crafted their own tech plans without too much discomfort.

In this webinar, you’ll:

Social media has dramatically changed how nonprofits and libraries communicate with supporters, donors, and volunteers. Most organizations in the United States now use social media in their communications and development strategies, but few have been properly trained on how to best utilize sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Your organization's return on investment (ROI) in social media is directly related to whether your staff fully understands the long-term implications of social media and are knowledgeable of each sites' unique functionality and toolset.
 

There are so many ways that people post content online, and that people talk about the issues you and your organization are focused on (or even your organization's work specifically)!  But, how do you stay on top of it all?  And how do you do it while still having time to do the rest of your job! That was the topic of this month's Net2 Think Tank - and this is the round-up of all the great contributions to answer that question:

How do you stay up-to-date online?

This month, we have some great contributions to share!

This month's Net2 Think Tank question asks, "How do you stay up-to-date online?"  There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you'll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely.  There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that's just blogs! Think of all the places your organization's name, staff, projects, programs or focus area could come up in the news, in campaigns, or in online conversations. 

To stay on top of it all, I suggest you create a listening dashboard for your organization - and here's how to do it!

Over the last two months, I’ve been settling into my new job at Social Signal, a social media firm based in Vancouver, BC. I’m their new social media strategist! (Remember when we blogged in 2008 about how we wished that job existed? Turns out it does…)

At NetSquared, we empower the community to identify the Projects with the most potential for social impact through our online "voting" process.  This post provides you with everything you need to know to winnow the field of +100 Mobile Projects in the NetSquared Gallery to a small field of Projects who will pitch their work to funders, developers and technology advocates at this year's NetSquared Conference.  

To avoid a popularity contest, we ask all voters to vote for at least (3) and up to (5) of your favorite Projects.  Please use the guidelines below to get started.

Warsaw, Poland - Have you ever experienced that dreamy, hungry look on the face of non-profit staff when you say: “I have experience in fundraising”? No matter whom you speak to, be it directors or campaigners, the chances are good that you’ll grab their attention. Better yet, if you offer to help their fundraising efforts as a volunteer, they will veer between the wish to hug you and the attempt not to seem too enthusiastic. But once you go into detail, talking about fundraising strategies, possible financial sources and so forth, this lovely atmosphere might be replaced by misunderstanding. Are European non-profits stuck in the Dark Ages of online fundraising?

Until now, I hadn’t thought much about the impact your 404 page could have on your visitors. Until I got a hurt email saying that our 404 was, well, a bit snarky...

Today on Social Ch@nge, we're talking about not insulting your mom, as well as some basic rules for a 404 page that will help your readers, and keep them on your website(More...)

You can sense the nervousness for fundraisers right now as they watch the stock market flop around like a goldfish on the floor.

And the media pundits aren't helping. There are the Survivalists ("It's the Long Emergency - grab a tin of cat food and head for the hills!"), but also the Pollyannas ("It's business as usual - Capitalism needs to have a heart attack every few years!")

Don't panic! Instead, let's look at a historical example to gain some perspective. In fact, our example will be Ground Zero for the original Wall Street apocalypse: what was it like to fundraise during the Great Depression?

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