On hiatus

Hi and thank you for visiting my blog. As a new mom, I decided to take some time off blogging, but I will be back! Stay tuned.

Excellent intro into Facebook Questions for Facebook pages

How to use Facebook questions for your nonprofit: http://nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/how-to-use-facebook-questions-for-your-nonprofit/

Social media and other fun trends for 2011

So the social media and other interesting trends for 2011 are now coming in.  I’m going to collect a few here, so that I have them all in one place – please feel free to add more in the comments. Six Social Media Trends For 2011 - David Armano Actual Interactive Marketer Predictions For 2011 - Forrester [...]

A love note to HoHoTO 2010: Help us help the world suck a little less

Here’s something that warms my heart every year for the last three years: seeing an incredibly generous and kind community come together to celebrate the holidays and feed the hungry. My dear Toronto techies and twitterers, my inbox is once again exploding with all the hohoto emails, and I love it. See www.hohoto.ca for more [...]

Time to learn, time to reflect

“We need  time! More time,” I often hear people say. Magnitude of the long ‘to-do’ lists paralyzes, and the society presses all of us to be on, all the time. To be plugged in, be involved, do the work, get things done. But we need to make a conscious effort to free ourselves from that [...]

PR and social media events

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 the upcoming [...]

Mesh, Everybody

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 [...]

Buzz is in the air for MyCharityConnects conference

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 – [...]

Future of Fundraising: What Haiti taught us and where we can go from here

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 [...]

Talk is Cheap

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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