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It’s hard to keep track of them all, but these PR and social media events – many of them are free, by the way, – present a great learning opportunity. If social media interests you, stay on top of all the newest developments by going to at least some of these events in July. http://toprsocialmediaevents.pbworks.com/ [...]
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Mesh conference starts tomorrow! If you go, I hope to see you there, and I hope to meet more people whose work I follow through the *interwebs*, and see some new faces. If you can’t make it this year, the least you can do is keep an eye on the twitter stream for #Mesh10, already in full [...]
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Make MyCharityConnects on June 7 & 8 your Event of the Year. This is a two-day conference that “aims to build the capacity of the Canadian charitable sector by connecting charities to the technology they need to succeed.” Bring it on! Does your charity want to succeed? Just take a look at MyCharityConnects conference agenda – [...]
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Watch this! Haiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage from Khalid Mohtaseb on Vimeo. It’s hard to count all the fundraisers, donations, and silent auctions that went on and are still going on to help Haiti in its earthquake aftermath. As we analyze our collective response, I suggest we also take some time to reflect on the future [...]
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You can catch me at the upcoming unconference at Centennial College with a cool and clever name: Talk is Cheap. Please come by, say hi, and go to as many sessions as you can. Take this great opportunity to learn about how social media makes waves in the real world. I will be joining the [...]
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When I got involved with co-organizing HaiHaiTO, a twitter fundraiser for Haiti, I couldn’t imagine what the actual event would be like. All we wanted was to do more to help Haiti. Turns out, there were many, many more people who wanted that, too. We got a truly awesome community here in TO. THANK YOU [...]
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Cross-posted from the main HoHoTO page: hohoto.ca and no, I didn’t write this but I do hope to write like this one day! Yes, we’re doing it again. As those of you following the tweets have noticed, HoHoTO is returning this December 16th at The Mod Club in Toronto. New to all this? Wondering what [...]
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If your non-profit has a website, make sure the content on your site is optimized for the web. Some of the basic rules to keep in mind: Use keywords in your writing copy that would help people find your content on the site when they do Google search and scan it Use accessible language. I [...]
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I am looking forward to the livechat on The Agenda tonight. The topic? Limits of transparency and digital activism. I will be joining @jessebrown to moderate the online discussion, as the incredible Steve Paikin juggles the offline and online guests and comments at 8 p.m. tonight. Digital activism? What’s that? It is hard to deny the benefits [...]
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I came across these social media guidelines and decided to collect those from now on. It’s fascinating to see the different takes various organizations have on the issue of social media engagement. Does your organization have social media policy? Please share – I would be happy to link to it. http://paidcontent.org/article/419-wapos-social-media-guidelines-paint-staff-into-virtual-corner/ Instead of finding ways [...]
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