I recently had the honour to be in charge of a whole-day social media workshop in Solferino, where the idea for the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement was born. This was part of our 150 year celebrations. It was really interesting because the 50 or so participants where from extremly different countries and backgrounds, as behooves an organization with 186 member countries. It was absolutely fascinating to see that how social media is just as interesting to someone from Belgium[...]
Archive for August, 2009
I just discovered that, the day after I posted “We are not funny – why nonprofits suck at being viral”, Mashable’s Josh Catone published “Top 10 YouTube Videos for Social Good”. This is a great list and I really recommend that you watch all of them for inspiration. While I don’t want to duplicate what he has already done, here are my top three – and my two cents for each of them: Because we are all connected I think this[...]
Lately I have been present at a lot of pitches where someone from my organization would tell an agency: “And we need a viral video”. At that point you can always see someone on the agency’s side flinch because that person knows: we won’t have the guts. As long as we are aiming for safe we will never create something that gets passed along like crazy. Yes, as a non profit organization you will always find people who are sympathetic[...]
I just found this video on the blog of Eric Qualman. And while I think that he is using too much text (I’m currently reading Slide:ology so I’m super-critical), I still find it a very good presentation. In fact, I’m planning to use it as the intro at a workshop about social media that I’m supposed to give in three weeks time. You find this video and a list of sources for the statistics used in this video on Socialnomics.
I am supposed to come up with a draft set of guidelines for staff who are using social media. What I hadn’t counted on was that doing so would suddenly put me into conflict with one of our most dogmatic documents.
Rebecca Leaman has created a list of “100 Online Tools for Non-Profits”. What I like most about it: she doesn’t focus on the cool and trendy but on the workhorses that help to run any organization.
… at least when it comes to speed. Todays events taught me that with a bit of luck you can use tools like Facebook to cut through the organizational bureaucracy and get your job done faster and better.
TED is a non-profit organization that invites interesting people to talk about interesting things. But what really makes their site stand out is how well they understand video presentation online.
