PA311-2011

Thanks to technology, email accounts, social networking sites, and cell phones are now prime marketing real estate. In order to strike the right balance between marketing to the masses and generating revenue, organizations should do two things right away. First, establish communication guidelines that reflect the organization's vision, mission, short and long-term objectives (collectively, the brand)-not what the business Joneses are doing. Second, ask constituents what matters to them.

New York City-based Catchafire, a business that links nonprofits with skilled volunteers who are ready to perform discrete, pro bono tasks. The goal is two-fold: to help nonprofits build capacity within their organization by using volunteers and to provide professionals with high-quality, skills-based volunteer experiences.

I'm always up for something fun and helpful. With the social web, there are some tried and true ways that I approach cause marketing and raising money for nonprofits.   

Highly recommended article. The CITIZEN SUPERHEROES slideshow is hilarious. Basically, this article explains how technology makes government less bureacratic.

Technology investment as a strategic investment. Also, collaboration between peer organizations is something technology does best.

Tech soup article about managing tech volunteers--a valuable asset for npo's.

This article shows how we are beginning to use social media in our everyday lifes. It isnt just youth but older people are now using social media sites more and more

"Zeus Technology, the only pure software-based application traffic management (Application Delivery Controller) company, announced today that GreatSchools, a non-profit organization devoted to improving children's education, has selected Zeus to help deliver a seamless online end-user experience, while decreasing bandwidth costs."

This article discusses the new and different ways people now get their information about things that are happening in the news. It is all about using social media to do this. Cities, towns and counties are taking advantage of these social media websites and it is helping them reach out to more people. People are already on these websites daily, so it is more convenient. It helps to engage the citizens. These new social media tools have also helped lower many costs.

It,s important to releazie the sitaution in which we were few before technology arrived. A decade ago, access to technology was limited and wiring schools was one of the nation's highest education priorities. Ten years of substantial investments have vastly improved this picture. therefore, this article has discusses the importance of technology in significan ways. According to the Secretary's Fourth Annual Report on Teacher Quality, virtually every school with access to computers has Internet access (99%), compared to only 35 percent of schools in 1994, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

This article is on how the public should be able to see government meetings and have access to government records. Technology is helping this happen.

Intelligent Decisions Inc. is a great technology company that helps out the government.