Internet-based rating sites may be highly imperfect indicators, but nonprofits and foundations ignore low workplace ratings at their peril. As the Silicon Valley Community Foundation is belatedly finding out, sometimes when you see smoke, there may be fire.
This partnership joins the social media giant, academic researchers, and several large foundations in an attempt to radically reshape the state of research on social media, civic engagement, and political participation. With that comes some risk.
This story suggests that ordinary people had a skeptical relationship with electronic media long before the Facebook fiasco. What kind of conscious resistance will it take to foster honest democratic dialogue?
The Hewlett Foundation is primed to finance studies on how social media platforms have helped weaken and polarize public discourse by facilitating the spread of misinformation.
Former employees of tech firms such as Facebook, Mozilla, Google, and Apple are saying that our overuse of technology is harming the fabric of our society.
This article from the Nonprofit Quarterly is a treasure trove of examples of how 26 small organizations respond to the challenges and constraints they encounter with their uses of social media for organizing and engagement.
Maybe our donors and constituents need to build a sense of community with joy at the center—did you ever consider that?
China is developing a national program to monitor and rate the behavior of its citizens, where access to loans, jobs, schools, and visas will depend on one’s “citizen score.”
Nonprofit marketing is too important to be assigned only to marketers, whether on staff or consultants. Fundraising and advocacy is entirely about relationships, and those are everyone’s job.
This piece might inform you as you plan for the start of fundraising season, but its reminder of the need for the personal approach applies across the board.
