The United Nations Joint Inspection Body recently spoke to web professional in 40 UN agencies to identify what the most common problems are and how to fixed them.
The result is an impressive document that can be used by many non-profit organizations, NGOs, International Organizations and even government ministries and agencies to address similar problems in their own organization.
The ”Review of Management of Internet Websites in the United Nations System Organizations“ (31 pages) focuses on website governance and strategy – and I still have to[...]
Seth Godin recently wrote a post titled “The problem with non” in which he claims that non-profit organizations fail at social media adoption and that the reason for that is fear of change.
Here are six reasons why I disagree:
1. There is a difference Oprah and an NGO
„Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. (…)None of them are non-profits. (…) Is the work you’re doing not important enough to follow, or[...]
Before every general election in Germanythe “Federal Institute for Political Education” (bpb) releases the “Elect-o-Meter” (Wahl-O-Mat) a simply web-application that asks your opinion on current political issues and then compares your answer with the party platforms. With general elections only three weeks away, the new version of the Wahl-O-Mat was released on Friday – and this time even in English.
If you ever wondered whom you vote for if you were German – try the “Elect-O-Meter“.
Missed chance for social media
What I[...]
One of the things I love about my job is that I constantly find out about incredibly useful or smart things that people have come up with. Right now I’m in awe of the the new Emergency Items Catalogue (www.ifrc.org/emergency-items) that was just released by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Metric? Imperial? Who cares?
Imagine you show up at a disaster and you’ve brought a few pumps and[...]
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.
