New Media Initiatives

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Aside from all the buzz generated by notorious social media such as Myspace, Youtube, and others, how can nonprofits practically use these tools to further their missions? Is there really a way for nonprofits to tap into and benefit from social media?

• What is "Web 2.0"?

• Getting started

• Remember one thing
• Social Networks

• Blogs

• Resources
• Summary

The Possibility (and Practicality) of Web 2.0

• Web2.Remember One Thing
• Web2.Social Networks
  • Should you bother?
  • Build your own!
• Web2.Blogs
  • How to use blogs
  • Why blog?
• Resources
• Summary

The Possibility (and Practicality) of Web 2.0

• Remember one thing
• Social Networks?
  • Should you bother?
  • Build your own!
• Blogs
  • How to use blogs
  • Why blog?
  • Getting started
• Resources
• Summary

Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web 2.0 to Change The World http://ext337.org/file_download/9

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/ Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/08/encouraging-blo.html http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/08/31-days-to-bett.html http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/10/blogging_in_the.html http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/09/psst_where_you_.html

http://www.netsquared.org/blog/britt-bravo/10-ways-nonprofits-can-use-blogs http://bethkanter.wordpress.com/web-20-guide/ http://del.icio.us/kanter/nptech%2Bbloglines http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page2084.cfm

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/10/organizing-vers.html http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/09/teen-blogging-p.html

The Possibility (and Practicality) of Web 2.0

http://www.mncn.org/event_communicate.htm#nextgen

Aside from all the buzz generated by notorious social media such as My Space?, You Tube?, and others, how can nonprofits practically use these tools to further their missions? Is there really a way for nonprofits to tap into and benefit from social media?

"one social network wins the whole high school." In the present pre-portability era, even teenagers don't want to take the time of maintaining multiple social networks: email + IM + one social network is enough (if not too much).

"mostly a matter of a mind shift, from producing a final polished to sharing a work in progress" The clincher to all this is to use your blog as your backup brain — or at least as a public notebook. Why not get more mileage out of work you would have done anyway by changing your habits toward managing information and communication publicly? Instead of keeping your thoughts, notes, and conversations to yourself, post them. --http://www.contentious.com/archives/2007/09/05/how-to-blog-without-the-time-sink/