Many Thanks to William Jones of the ABA Center for Probono for this link to Social Media Governance – which houses a database of example policys and templates for managing social media usage in nonprofits, commercial efforts, government agencies and more.   It’s an extensive database and surely you can find something that works for your organization here.

I have been asked to present the keynote speech at the upcoming Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce Spring Showcase Luncheon.  Update: Unfortunately this event was cancelled.

A new book out by a set of “A Team” experts on how nonprofits can manage their online presence – check out Internet Management for NonProfits – to be on book shelves and available electronically by mid-April.

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project “Fully three quarters of American adults ages 18 and older use the internet. There has been little change in the number of online Americans over the past five years, as roughly seven-in-ten or more have been logging on to the internet. However, at the start of [...]

FCC Released it’s National Broadband Plan yesterday – it looks long on goals and short on details (like how to pay for it all) but I guess its a beginning:   http://www.broadband.gov/   check back here for a longer review of the Plan coming soon!   Lawmakers weigh in on FCC National Broadband Plan in [...]

Teens who pay their own phone bills are more likely to send “sexts”: 17% of teens who pay for all of the costs associated with their cell phones send sexually suggestive images via text compared with only 3% of those who do not pay for, or pay for only a portion of the cost of [...]

According to Pew Research Center using governement data “nearly one-quarter of adults in the U.S. (24%) now live in households with only a cell phone and no landline … about twice as many as live in households with a landline but no cell phone. The cell-only are very different from people who can be reached [...]

I found this link while doing some research for an upcoming presentation – http://www.digitalnative.org/#home - its “an interdisciplinary collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen.  Our aim is to understand and support young people as they grow up [...]

Techno.la published this morning a link to a study by the  Social Science Research Council on “Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities”.  The study seeks to ”analyze the factors shaping low rates of adoption of home broadband services in low-income and other marginalized communities”.  This “study is one of the only large-scale qualitative investigations of barriers to adoption in the [...]

This may not sound like your clients but I think this research by Pew confirms what the Capgemini Research had to say about looking at digital natives as a way to predict future trends in Internet usage.  Pew says that consumers are now getting news from a variety of sources - both online and offline - and that [...]