Editor's Note: Shonali Burke recently let me know about some exciting public relations work she is doing for the nonprofit Center for Community Change and connected me with Zack Langway, its digital campaign director. Zack is also the digital campaign director for its nonprofit sister organization, the Campaign for Community Change. Both organizations are doing some innovative work using social media for grassroots organizing of low-income people and people of … [Read more...]
‘I’m Gonna Be Your Friend’: A Model Campaign
I absolutely love Save the Children's new social media campaign harnessing the power of celebrities and a Bob Marley song to raise funds for the devastating food crisis affecting millions of children and their families across East Africa. The "I'm Gonna Be Your Friend" campaign, which kicked off today, is named after the "I'm gonna be your friend" lyric in Marley's 1973 song "High Tide Or Low Tide." Using the moving song as the soundtrack to a YouTube video slide … [Read more...]
Don’t Merge Your Facebook Page & Places Page
"Don't Merge Your Nonprofit Facebook Page with Places Page," warns the heading of an interesting Dec. 17 guest post on Beth's Blog. The post, by Ivan Boothe, explains if your organization accepts Facebook's invitation to claim your Facebook Places geolocation page, you'll lose your ability to specify a default landing tab on your regular Facebook page. That means all the time and money you put into creating a beautiful custom landing tab will go to waste. Since … [Read more...]