Your guide to resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause.
Web 2.0 and New Media Tools
Web 2.0 and New Media Tools
- Find out how to reach out to users of that other social networking website in Using Facebook in Your Nonprofit.
- Learn how to successfully use social networking communities for your cause in Christine Herron's article 7 Tips for Successful Social Network Campaigns.
- Think blogging is passe, or just not for you? Read Jeff Brooks’ Nine More Good Reasons to Blog before you make up your mind for good.
- David Brazeal gives the five most common reasons why nonprofits don’t follow the web 2.0 hype, and then tells you how to lead them back to it.
Telling Your Story
- Telling the why behind your organization is one of the best ways to gain support. Tech Soup’s Eight Tips for Telling Your Story Digitally tells you how to do this online.
- Some nonprofits are already telling their stories online, and using maps to do so. The Story Mapping Blog, a creation of the The Center for Digital Storytelling, has great examples of digital story maps.
- See what the reps from Free Range Studios said about online storytelling at the NTC and what advise they gave for telling your story using different new media tools.