Social Media 4 Good

Exploring the use of Social Media for NGOs, non-profit organizations and to support humanitarian relief

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[...]

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.

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.