Wanna walk the talk? Join our social media team

August 26, 2010

2009 Sharefair in Rome

An ad hoc discussion group at the 2009 Sharefair in Rome

I have been preaching good social media practices for nonprofit organisations for quite a while. Now I was offered the chance to “walk my talk”, a chance to I also want to extend to you “out there”.

Lemme explain.

In October this year, there will be an event, dubbed “AgKnowledge Africa”. It is participatory conference, a sharefair. Hundreds of attendees will not just ‘attend’, but actively contribute in show-casing, sharing, teaching and learning ways in which African agricultural and rural knowledge is created, shared, communicated, and put to use.

I have been challenged to coordinate the social media team, a team at the heart of this sharefair. These loosely-knit-together bunch of volunteers will use social media:

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Power tools to manage multiple Twitter accounts

August 20, 2010

Twitter birds

For the past 18 months, I managed a dozen different Twitter accounts. From each, I tweet simple text phrases, links, and pictures. I follow my social crowd closely, checking the replies and direct message I get. I also retweet and engage into conversations, as a good social media user should do. In short, I am a Twitter addict, demanding more from my Twitter tools than an average “Tweep”.

I experimented with many desktop, browser, iPhone and iPad tools which could make my life easier in manage these multiple Twitter accounts. While there are loads of tools available for single Twitter account, decent applications to manage a string of Twitter accounts simultaneously, are found far and between.

Here are the tools I have been using:

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Paper.li turns your Twitter stream into a web magazine

August 20, 2010

Paper.li turns your Twitter stream into a magazine

Paper.li : From dull Twitter streams to an exciting magazine

My post about “Flipboard”, an iPad application which turns several social media streams into a slick magazine, stirred up some discussions at a local Tweetup. In the article, I complained about the boring feat of browsing through your Twitter stream, which is nothing more than a mere list of links and comments.

While Flipboard turns different predefined and customized social media streams into an iPad flip-able electronic magazine (eMagazine or eZine for short), I was also looking for a web-based solution…

Well, @mongkolroek pointed me to an application which does exactly that: Paper.li

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Flipboard turns Twitter and Facebook into an iPad magazine

For someone who only upgraded from a 1997 Palm III PDA and a 2003 Nokia to an iPhone last year, I am now proud to be part of the in-crowd: I have an iPad. The only reason why I have an iPad, is that I dreamt of having an iPad. I believe in my dreams. [...]

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Is blogging still fun?

I am not sure how often I feel like walking a road, ending up somewhere at a hurdle. And then I look around me and think “How did I end up here?”. I mean this “blogging thing” is great. It gives the power to distribute information “to the masses”. Being an anti-authoritarian at heart, I [...]

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Love is… letting her choose your blog’s banner

Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali

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Shared hosting: Pay Peanuts, Get Monkeys

See the bottom of the post for updates on my adventures with shared hosting.. My experience in selfhosting my blogs with GoDaddy moved from a glowing enthusiasm via consternation and frustration into a deep distrust and disbelief. In this post, I want to take you through the past year, as I discovered some of the [...]

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Blogging for nonprofit: IRC’s WASH Blogs

If you use WASH as a noun, rather than a verb, you gotta be working in the humanitarian field. WASH stands for “WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene”, one of the key sectors in the field of aid and development. As with any nonprofit area, advocacy, information dissemination and project discussions are key to the WASH sector, [...]

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Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius

An interesting slide set by social media guru Beth Kanter, showing how social media can be used as a marketing tool – specifically for non-profit organisations. Some of the slides contain details you will only see when watching the slide show in full screen (click on the menu icon – Choose “Full screen”)..

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Love is… tethering on her iPhone

Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali

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Nonprofit blogs: the common problems

777,  Seven hundred seventy-seven. That is the amount of nonprofit blogs I have collected so far. They are all on my Delicious bookmarking list. Excerpts from their posts are republished on Humanitarian News and The NonProfit Blogs. 777, discarding blogs which have not been updated since six months.  777, including the Good, the Bad and [...]

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