Archive for May, 2007

Back from a visit to the future

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

This morning I got to sit in on a demonstration of Cisco Systems’ top of the line TelePresence 3000 system. Thanks to Sharon Burns, CIO for the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (you know, all those public TV programs), I attended a conference with the foundation’s staff in Chicago at another Cisco demo [...]

Blogger Broadcasts bone marrow experience

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

                        
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Net2 Year2

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

I’m attending the Net Squared conference on nonprofits and technology at the Cisco Systems campus in San Jose. The format of this year’s conference is different from last year. Last year was mainly presentations by knowledgeable people on issues related to how nonprofits are or are not using tech to advance their missions. This year’s [...]

I have an Idea – Part Four

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

  Woo-Hoo! I found out today that my idea has been funded by the Futuring and Innovations Center. The best part is that it has been funded to the full amount. With this seed money I can start to make my idea a reality. The next step is to assemble a team of like minded [...]

Turbo-Charged Web Use

Friday, May 25th, 2007

The April 1, 2007 issue of The NonProfit Times talks about turbo-charged Web sites and the American Cancer Society’s is the first  one chosen.  This is a feather in our caps and comes after much hard work and learning experience.  And we still have a ways to go, says Adam Peliegrini, Director, Strategic Online.  A [...]

Google Trends Redux

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

A recent post on the TrendsSpotting blog inspired me to try out Google Trends. Launched a year ago, Google Trends
…is a tool from Google Labs that shows the most popularly searched terms from the beginning of 2004 to now.
Google Trends charts how often a particular search term is entered relative the total search volume across [...]

blip.tv for karens kids

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Oh how I love our tech-forward volunteers. Jeffrey Simms, whom I’ve mentioned before for his use of Twitter during his relay event, has come up with a great way of raising a little more money for the cause. He’s recently switched his video host from YouTube to Blip.tv. In doing so he’s able to generate [...]

New Fundraising Techniques

Monday, May 21st, 2007

The Salvation Army’s dowdy fund raising approaches of the past may be out of date.  Are some of the American Cancer Society’s out of date as well?
The Salvation Army has taken the bull  by the horns and is coming out well.  Examples:   talking to corporation sponsors about funding a TV special, a reality show and [...]

SplashCast and Using Social Media for Marketing

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Last week my friend Marshall posted an article about how he and SplashCast have used Social Media for Marketing. SplashCast hired Marshall and Alex Williams, founder of the Podcast Hotel series of podcasting industry conferences to, in part, produce in-house content to engage with existing social media communities. Marshall writes blog posts accompanied by mixed [...]

Social Media Bookmarking or Hacking Cancer.org

Friday, May 18th, 2007

I went to a great talk last night presented by the folks at the Austin Social Media Club. We all sat around and debated the usefullness of the Social Media Press Release or the hRelease or XPRL. These are all formats that future press releases could be done in. Basically we need something that replaces [...]