I've got a somewhat irregular Saturday ritual of listening to recent NPR show episodes while knitting, or winding yarn, or just cleaning house. Not long ago, I added Len Edgerly's Arts and Technology podcast to this ritual.
So I blew off an evening with my dear friend Saucy due to extreme emotional exhaustion. We had a date to watch a some Hugh Grant or Colin Firth movie or something, but I called it on account of OMG Tired.
Nonprofits all around us are making decisions RIGHT NOW about how to engage in social networks, and many of us in the field have to fight a desperate feeling of running hard just to keep up - the overwhelming conviction that everybody else is winning friends, donors, hearts and minds through the savvy use of social networking sites, and that we are MISSING OUT.
I've been thinking about Jeremiah's recent Utter, his post on paying yourself first and about how we get where we eventually go.
Dear friends and colleagues;
So I spent the day after Thanksgiving wrestling with logic models, which is way more fun than doing the dishes. If you want to cut to the chase and see what I made (two logic models for nonprofts considering using social networks) just click here.
Once again, it would appear that Beth Kanter is reading my mind. Or at least my email! Not two hours after I had a meeting to discuss the pros and cons of rolling out an organization-specific social network, I found this post in my feed reader.
We're getting new windows put in today and tomorrow, and if I had been clever at all I would have taken pictures of the windows before so that the after pictures would have some context and meaning. Sigh. I am not at all clever.
Interesting. I made a presentation on web 2.0 tools for nonprofits, mostly just touching on blogs, photosharing, and social networks. Before the presentation, I would have predicted that the most readily adopted tool would be blogging, then photosharing, then social networks.