I just received this e from meetup.com: “Ten years ago this month, Meetup was born. People thought we were crazy, but 76 million RSVPs later, it turns out we’re all a little crazy.” I’d say we’re not crazy. We just long for community. We want to belong to a tribe . It’s a universal human…
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To raise funds you must first raise friends.The initial step is making folks aware of who you are and what you do. In our daily lives (and in the daily lives of our volunteers) many opportunities arise where we can begin the friend raising process. We have to be prepared to take advantage of these…
DetailsHard to ignore, isn’t it? I hate personally*. Never liked it. I abhor their privacy policies; the burden is placed on the user and one has to be vigilant about checking changes made to their settings on a regular basis. They know too much about us too. Plus there’s the fact that it’s so…
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Are you leading engagement with your tribes? Lots of interesting Q & A during last week’s webinar about blogging our way to increased constituent engagement. Particularly around the relative merits of blogging vs. engaging on and other social media. Our constituents’ agenda is often a quest for meaningful social interaction; a tribal connection. At…
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In the webinar I hosted earlier this week I was asked: “Why have a blog if we already have ? With limited staff resources and ability to actually spend time writing one of these, can’t I just have discussions on and generate excitement that way?” Well, sure. You can spend your time creating…
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Okay, so you’re small. That doesn’t mean you have to think and act small. When it comes to social media you have to go big. Because it’s what being social is all about. If you only do a little bit, well… you’re not really being social, are you? Even worse, what if you never respond…
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Brian Solis, the esteemed author of The End of Business as Usual , speaks eloquently about two modern phenomena: ► disruptive technology, and ►digital Darwinism. Dacher Keltner, renowned psychologist at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California in Berkeley, talks of another current of Darwinian thought: ►survival of the most empathic. Taken…
DetailsYou did say “All I can eat?!” Your challenge (a.k.a. homework) for sometime this month is to eat without guilt: Be a social consumer. Go to the information buffet in the industry you frequent (whether for profit or nonprofit; think about where your competition lies) and eat up. Stuff your little cheeks full. All you…
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One thing Moms know is that children usually know when adults are only half-listening. Just as kids can feel frustrated, unheard, and at times even und when this happens, so can our constituents feel ignored and unsatisfied when we merely broadcast information without asking for or responding to feedback.. Listening to constituents with our full…
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