Category Archives: Social Media
A Quick Note on Cross-Posting on Facebook Fan Pages
Many organizations use Facebook as their primary social network (as opposed to Twitter, LinkedIn or MySpace). We have a Facebook page for both Social Source Commons and Aspiration on which we periodically update our statuses in addition to the resources that we push out through our Twitter page. One feature that I don’t think many […]
Facebook Causes Drama
I recently set up a Facebook Cause for Aspiration, the mama org of Social Source Commons. It was simple and in only a few minutes I had created an Aspiration Cause that I could use to find supporters and receive donations. My motivation wasn’t to start the grand “Help Aspiration Save the World!” fundraising campaign […]
Blogs + Social Media = ? (Blog Posts to Check Out)
One thing that I’m interested in (along with 90% of the nonprofit world) is the connection and potential return on investment between social media and the organization. A few great blog posts have been floating around out there that I thought I should share for those of you looking into the same issues as myself. […]
Photos for Nonprofits
Talking to a small nonprofit looking to get started on Social Media recently, the executive director told me that she’s trying her hardest to get comfortable with Flickr because she knew that it was the place for photos and social networking. Immediately, I thought to myself: “Wait. Is it?” It seems that more and more […]
Nonprofit Social Media: Audience Assessment
Photo courtesy of dunechaser Recently, I was talking to a few members of a nonprofit who were frustrated with their higher-ups who were pushing major projects on Facebook without having a clear understanding of what they were using Facebook for in the first place. Somewhat ironically, by posting the question to Aspiration’s Facebook Wall, we […]
Nonprofit Tech Links to Check Out
Photo courtesy of geishaboy500 As is required of every blogger from time to time, I want to push you all (or “y’all” if you prefer) to some posts that popped up in our Twitter stream. Check it: Is Your Nonprofit Too Social Media Dependent?Interesting points and questions are raised in this post from Allyson Kapin […]
Exporting & Backing Up Your Social Media Data
Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. At Aspiration, we’ve been trying to smooth some of the rough edges that we have with regard to ensuring that we have our data secure. This both means having a reliable and trusted service into which we put that data […]
Online Communications Publishing Matrix Tools
We nonprofit geeks over at Aspiration, the mama organization for Social Source Commons have recently begun working in Social Media for our organization. While this new world can be big, scary, haphazard, constantly changing and full of scary critters, there is a lot of potential value that nonprofits can gain by engaging the different audiences […]
Social Media Conversation
Image Courtesy of eye2eye on Flickr I’ve run across a few articles around the interwebs recently that I thought some of you might find interesting. They all have to do with social media best practices and taking advantage of the conversation that results from tools like Twitter and Facebook. Sometimes (read: all times) there’s a […]
Social Media and Accessibility
An example of CAPTCHA We here at Social Source Commons Blog recently got an email asking us to reconsider our use of reCaptcha for spam management on our blog. reCAPTCHA is a tool that uses the CAPTCHA technique to verify that the person requesting to interact with the site (post a comment, register as a […]