THANK YOU WEEK – Coming Soon

Hey Readers!

I am on vacation all this week but I wanted to let you know about a special upcoming event here at 501derful.org. And that is THANK YOU WEEK! Basically this is a week where I do nothing but thank all the wonderful people that have made this Blog what it is today.

I will be doing that by sharing a ton of information with you. From the Social Media Documents I created at the American Cancer Society (in an editable foramt) to almost all the notes from the Austin Non Profit Bar Camp that I helped create.

So stay tuned THANK YOU week is going to be freaking HUGE.

Social Video and Public Relations : Your new required Skill Set

I taught two classes this week at the University of Texas in Austin. Here is my lecture presentation for the Monday class around shooting social video along with using video for crisis communications. This will all be on Friday’s exam so please let me know if you have any questions in the comments section.

If you are not a student, feel free to enjoy the presentation as well!

Awwww! Thanks for the love.

The awesome folks over at Nonprofitorgs.org put together a list of the top 29 Non Profit Bloggers and I made it!

From them “This time around I limited the list to individuals bloggers, rather than blogs maintained by associations, publications, PR firms, etc. Of course, there are many others I am not aware of that should be on this list as well. Please feel free to post a link to their blog in the comments section. The 29 nonprofit bloggers below are posted in reverse alphabetical order, all equally valuable.”

How do you stay up-to-date? Ask Big Brother

Besides hiring the NSA to monitor mentions of your Non Profit how do you stay up to date? That is the question the fine folks at Net Squared are asking this month.

Blog posts, news articles, videos, tweets, photo and more are out there everyday about your org. So how do you monitor them? Here at the American Cancer Society High Plains we use a great iGoogle Dashboard (we got the idea from HSUS) that is modded up with all kinds of RSS feeds. For instance we did a twitter search on American Cancer Soicety. When you do this you get the RSS feed of the search. Then we add that as widget in iGoogle.  We then did a news search on google news. Grabbed the RSS feed and added that as awidget, etc.  We have three tabs: Main, Friends and Competitors and Relay For Life. This helps us keep track of a ton of info.

For the searches we use:

Google News
Google Blog Alerts to our Gmail
DIGG Rss searches
Forum Searches
Twitter Searches on a ton of keywords
BlogPulse Searches
Flickr Keyword Searches
and many more

Hope that helps!

Social Media Dashboard