When you have a MacBook Pro delivered, the nice shiny white Apple box comes inside a less shiny brown shipping box. In fact, the Apple box is suspended inside that shipping box by paper corner pads. While I’m stoked that these packaging pieces are recyclable (Apple does pay attention to the impact of its products),… Continue reading MacBook Pro Packaging is the Apple of my Sustainable Eye
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101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits
Whew, that’s a mouthful! Over the last 12 months, I’ve been writing a (long-titled) book with my esteemed collegue, Melanie Mathos. We are thrilled that 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide will be coming out in February 2012, and I’m sure I’ll write more about here on this blog. in the mean… Continue reading 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits
Social Media Listening – The Workshop!
I’m one of those social media geeks that never stops talking about how important listening is. So I often find myself presenting a session on the topic, as I did at the 2010 Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits. My good friend Danielle Brigida and I followed our session with a workshop where our students built a… Continue reading Social Media Listening – The Workshop!
Just A Few of Our Favorite Things from 2010
We have a new tradition emerging here at the Norman house: on New Years Eve/Day we create our favorite things tag cloud! *here’s 2009’s* This year during dinner, we each wrote down some of the things we liked from 2010 (we help the little ones). Then I typed them up and sent them through Wordle.net,… Continue reading Just A Few of Our Favorite Things from 2010
Found :: My First Flash Movie from 1998
Back in late 1997, Gabo Mendoza single handedly changed the course of interactive communication forever when he unleashed Gabocorp.com (archive removed!) upon an unsuspecting design world. Flash had been around for a short time, but nobody had ever built an entire site with it. In fact, I’m not sure anyone had even thought to…except for… Continue reading Found :: My First Flash Movie from 1998
Just A Few of Our Favorite Things from 2009
First off, a huge happy new year to you all! Today at lunch, Jen, Cooper, Graham, Zoe and I sat around our kitchen table, writing down all of our favorite things from 2009. It was fun reading them out loud, hearing what we had in common, and telling stories from throughout the year. Being a… Continue reading Just A Few of Our Favorite Things from 2009
50 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits
Last week I spoke at the 2009 Conference for Nonprofits, and one of my presentations was called 50 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits. Organizations often have social media channels developed, and are just looking for ideas they can use to engage their followers. This presentation is a roundup of 50 things nonprofits can do on… Continue reading 50 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits
Some Thoughts on Webby Things
It’s been a while since I’ve linked back to my nonprofit tech blog, Webby Things. It’s been hard lately to find the time to eek out posts on a regular basis, but I truly love working with and helping nonprofits. If you’re into that sort of thing, here are a few posts from the last… Continue reading Some Thoughts on Webby Things
Shhhhhh! Don’t Forget to Listen…
Last Friday I spoke on the social networking panel at the Charleston Green Business Expo. It was part of the Charleston Green Fair, where I also exhibited for Go Green Charleston. I always love having a chance to talk social media with excited people. I like to remind everyone that listening to an audience is… Continue reading Shhhhhh! Don’t Forget to Listen…
Longpoint Commons :: A Community’s Community
What problem can’t be solved with social media these days? Our neighborhood was having trouble communicating, working together, and behaving like a true community, so we turned to Ning.com to help us improve that. Using Ning it took only minutes to create a full-featured social network complete with groups, discussion forums, an event calendar, blogs,… Continue reading Longpoint Commons :: A Community’s Community