A while back I told you about the Nonprofit Millennial Blogger Alliance, the brainchild of the fabulous Allison Jones. Now, we’re kicking it up a notch with a brand new website: NonprofitMillennials.org! The Nonprofit Millennial Blogger Alliance is made up of young writers collectively bringing important issues about the nonprofit sector to the forefront. While each of us [...]
How to Use Social Media to Build a Better Nonprofit Event
Last week, I presented a session at the YNPNdc 2nd Annual Social Media Summit. It’s always fun when I can spend a hour talking about social media and how nonprofits can use it better. This time, my focus was on how to use blogs, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr to build excitement, attendance and engagement for [...]
Nobodies are the New Somebodies
HR Examiner has just published a ranked list of the Top 25 Online Influencers in Leadership. The list ranks the Top 25 voices in leadership based on their online footprint. They used a tool called Traackr to discover which 25 people are the most influential on the subject of leadership. And lo and behold, yours truly [...]
Why We Love Social Media
Now, this is interesting. A recent Fast Company article examines research by neuroeconomist Paul Zak that suggests social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains: oxytocin. Zak’s research combines economics with biology, neuroscience, and psychology as well as the relationship between empathy and generosity. Adam Penenberg, the author of the article, [...]
Weekend Reading: Professional Development Tips, Social Media Tasks for Interns and the Best Tweet Ever
Sad that I missed this week’s #ynpchat about professional development, but my girl Allison Jones sums up the conversation pretty nicely, including a discussion about the utility of advanced degrees and where to find opportunities. Did you miss my last radio show? I talked to two passionate nonprofit leaders about that crazy new Florida law [...]
