This is a great video with some pretty amazing statistics on social media – is it a fad or a revolution that is changing the way we communicate?  Decide for yourself. for more information on the statistics in the video – check out socialnomics.net.

I keep coming back to the Holiday Spirit which officially starts for me on Dec 1 of every year.  Last week I blogged about making donations through text messaging and then I found even more ways individuals can donate to charities in very small amounts – microloans or microgifts.  I found three in particular that [...]

As the holidays approach nonprofits are working extra hard to raise money for their organizations.  The Denver Post just ran an article on texting for donations and cites the recent success the Red Cross experienced raising funds for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The Red Cross raised  more than $26 million from 1 million [...]

There are a variety of social media tools out there – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, etc. – and you may be using more than one of them.  You may have many followers or likers or connections depending on what tools you use.  And having friends and followers is a great initial metric for figuring out [...]

If your organization has a Facebook page I am guessing you are monitoring how many friends you have and how many folks have “liked” your page.  In an effort to learn more about Facebook trends and analytics I recently spent a few minutes (okay many many minutes) reading through Facebook’s Facebook and the Media.  This [...]

I am putting together a presentation on making change happen.  Personal change can be hard enough but getting others to change – at the office for example – when they really don’t have any incentive and as a matter of fact will view any change as a threat or just plain “making it harder”, can [...]

Clients have been asking me about using social media to fundraise and so I have been doing some research and poking around to see if I could find some hard numbers or data to help make the case that you really can raise money online.  I also have been looking at online donation forms and [...]

Today is National Chocolate Day! Yes I know I am supposed to talk about technology or social media or strategic planning or change management but today is National Chocolate Day and I just can’t resist the chance to tell you how I am going to celebrate. First let me get a fresh cup of hot [...]

This past weekend I taught a great Social Media 101 class here in Fort Collins.  It was held at the Education and Life Training Center out near New Belgium brewery (unfortunately we didn’t have beer… maybe next time!).  The ELTC provides an array of classes to the general public on a variety of topics at [...]

I have been working more and more with nonprofits, solo entrepreneurs and small businesses around social media and the more research I do, the more experience I have with social media in my own business, I have decided on one monumental truth. You have to be willing to suck at this…. for awhile. Everyone starts [...]