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Net Smart: How To Thrive Online - Book Review
Getting Around Internet Censorship: VPN
Celebrate International Women’s Day
Reporting Social to Stakeholders
How After Action Reviews Can Improve Your Social Media Strategy
Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?
Does Your Nonprofit Need Legal Counsel About Using Social Media?
Pinterest: A Tool to Curate Relevant Visual Content for Your Audience
E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World
Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut That’s one of my favorite photos from Beirut, taken in March, 2011 during E-Mediat Train-the-Trainers intensive workshop that kicked off the 18-month capacity building project for NGOs in the Arab World about using...Power and Light: Transparency and Effectiveness in the Nonprofit and Philanthropy World
I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofits with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. So, when I heard that the...Boost Your Voice with LightBox Collaborative’s 2012 Editorial Calendar
Flickr Photo by Yandel Note from Beth: Back in 2009, the first week I started as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I had the pleasure of meeting Holly Minch, Founder of LightBox Collaborative, who is an expert...The Power of Curation
Flickr by Leo Reynolds Guest post by Paula Goldman The wisdom of crowds, the insanity of crowds. Mention the word “network” to most people and their reactions tend to sway between these two polar extremes. It’s either “crowdsourcing is the answer to...Can Stories Be Data?
Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed Your numerical data can tell stories, but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? Do numbers only matter? There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and...Guest Post: Hashtags Are Like #Snowflakes
Source: David J. Neff Note from Beth: You’ll find some good tips from David and Ehren on how to leverage their platform. I’d like to emphasize one of their points – ”measure – experiment-measure.” Not every...Taking Baby Steps with Social Media Measurement: Defining a Small Pilot
Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement...What is Your Plan For Google + Experimentation and Exploration?
Simon Laustsen What a day! The platform war between Facebook and Google + officially launched with a press conference at Facebook announcing the new “awesome” features including one click skype/Facebook integration for video chat. ...Google+ – Yi-Tan Call Notes
Yi-Tan Community hosts a weekly 40-minute conference call about navigating change in technology and society. Jerry Michalski is the moderator. I used to participate in the calls way back in 2005 in the early days of blogging and always...Enchantment: Resisting Guy Kawasaki Is Futile
Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft. The conference shared practical tips and tools with expert speakers including, JD...What Is Your Nonprofit Supporter’s Decision Journey In the Age of Information Overload?
Source: HBR = Branding in a Digital Age Yesterday, I blogged about the ”Valid Metrics Framework” from the AMEC that provides a suggested guide post for selecting the right metrics to measure social media in the context of an...Book Review - We First: How Brands & Consumers Use Social Media To Build A Better World
Simon Mainwaring’s new book, We First, launches this week. It is a book about how connectedness through social networks can help satisfy the needs of business bottom line and a healthy, sustainable planet. ...
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John Bell heads up the 360° Digital Influence team & teaches graduate studies in Digital Influence at Johns Hopkins University. More »
Don Bulmer is Vice President of Communication Strategy at Royal Dutch Shell More »
John Byrne is chairman & editor-in-chief of C-Change Media Inc. & the author or co-author of eight books. More »
Gini Dietrich Gini Dietrich is the founder and chief executive officer of Arment Dietrich, Inc. More »
Vanessa DiMauro is the CEO of Leader Networks & has been creating successful online communities for over 15 years. More »
Maggie Fox is the founder and CEO of Social Media Group & was named one of the Top 100 Marketers in Marketing Magazine. More »
Laurent Francois I lead the marketing&development hub @ Express Roularta Services, a media company. I focus on 2 main brands (L'Express, More »
Rachel Happe is a Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable & a blogger at The Social Organization. More »
JD Lasica is a consultant who is considered one of the leading authorities on social media & user-created media. More »
Brian Solis s author of Engage and is recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders & authors in new media. More »
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“I would compare Facebook Like-Gates to capturing email and other contact information by offering ebooks and whitepapers. Without these, you'd be providing great content but that doesn't mean that everybody would go out of their way to dish out their contact details. It's a way to incentivize content providers to continue to generate great articles, inforgraphics and videos. And unliking a page is ...”
“Nonverbal communication is as important as our verbal or written messages. And how we appear in photographs on the web-- and specifically on Linkedin--can be critically important to our personal brands and our messages. The research you cite about warm and cold impressions is critical to how we are perceived. Thanks for the insightful post, Victoria, and I'm looking forward to the future posts. ...”