Are you following this interesting little debate on Nonprofit Social Media?
There’s been some lively discussion over at the Agitator between Tom and Jay Frost about the value of Facebook likes.
Reader Questions! I want…. EVERYTHING FUNDRAISING! Okay then.
Recently I asked my most fantabulous enewsletter subscribers (if you want to be one, click here) what they wanted to learn more about, because, let’s face it, Most people don’t plan to get into fundraising. What can you do? Except ask questions about stuff you don’t know? Of course, you can’t ask questions if you […]
How do you tell your nonprofit’s story in 8 easy steps?
How can you make a photoset and submit to Tech Soup’s Digital Storytelling Contest?
Here’s how I learned to use Animoto and Audacity. Super simple. With Screenshots.
This is so easy.
It can take less than an hour to get your story out there.
You can use this over and over again in appeals online, on youtube, on vimeo, on your website, wherever.
It’s effective in fundraising and appeals
It can be SO EASY. So if you have an hour, why not try it?
Collective Joy = How to Harness the Power of #Occupy for Your Nonprofit Cause
How can progressives use collective joy to help motivate people and promote our causes?
People who are working for change need to think about how to make their events draw on the solidarity and creativity of lots of people together. That’s been happening … but it’s something we need to address. Bringing art and culture into politics is a way to express what we are seeking, what our vision of the world is. -Barbara Ehrenreich
Will You Look Back With Me on 2011?
So last year I did a post about looking back, thinking about what has happened, taking stock, and reflecting. This year I ask you to join me in reflecting back on what this year has brought for you. Ask yourself these questions: What’s the big idea of this year? What am I most proud of […]
Have you ever bought an auction “vacation package”?
Then Guy Debord has something to say to you.
“In its most advanced sectors, a highly concentrated capitalism has begun selling “fully equipped” blocks of time, each of which is a complete commodity combining a variety of other commodities. This is the logic behind the appearance, within an expanding economy of “services” and leisure activities, of the “all-inclusive” purchase of spectacular forms of housing, of collective pseudo-travel, of participation in cultural consumption and even of sociability itself, in the form of “exciting conversations.” “meetings with celebrities” and suchlike. Spectacular commodities of this type could obviously not exist were it not for the increasing impoverishment of the realities they parody. And, not surprisingly, they are also paradigmatic of modern sales techniques in that they may be bought on credit.”
So, have you ever been to Disney world? Have you been to a Disney “timeshare”? Me TOO.
It was a completely artificial experience. It made me want to seek out nature, and the dark, and something more real.
If you have been similarly dissatisfied with Disney and its sanitized backward-looking version of life, perhaps you might enjoy this video.