“It’s Not About Finding Your Voice, It’s About Giving Yourself Permission to Use Your Voice” -Kris Carr

When will my avatar show, who I am, outside.

“A picture’s worth a thousands words but they don’t tell the whole story.”-Jennifer Brown

Hannah L. Stevens

What’s in a profile picture? (I would continue this cheesy Shakespeare quote, but I’ll leave that to the Bard himself). Lately, I have been curious about the idea of a profile picture and how important it is for your Facebook profile– How important would it be for a nonprofit to have an attention getting profile picture? Who sees your profile picture? What does your profile picture say about you? That’s a lot of questions to start out a blog, but I am hoping to answer a least a few of them.

I did a little research and came across an article for the Washington Post that answered some of my questions and I thought I would compile main points and my analysis here:

A lot (if not most) of your impression online is dictated by your profile picture.

Scrolling through your timeline, what do you think the first thing that catches…

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The Power of Personal Connection

Jessica Heuer

Personal relationships and networks have always been an important part of getting ahead in life.  As the saying goes “It’s not what you do, it’s who you know”- a little reaching in some aspects but as far as careers go I have definitely found this to be true.  In this week’s reading I realized that the world of networked nonprofits and web design is no different- what is most important is the relationships organizations make with their users and the network those users have that may support the organization.

The Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine discusses at length the importance of these relationships in its first chapters, “They [networked nonprofits] engage in conversation with people beyond their walls to build relationships that spread their work through the network” (3).   Each individual volunteer shares their experiences with an organization with their own personal network of friends, colleagues, etc…

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Content Analysis of Charity: Water + Five Takeaways

Charity Water any one?

brentschoenwald

Charity Water is a non-profit organizations that takes non-profiting to a whole new level! There mission is to provide clean drinking water to every person on the planet, which by the way is not a very easy task. Some of the key things that pop up when you head to there website is the amount of reassurance they give you on where your funds are going. The big struggle with being a non-profit is gaining trust from your donators. They want to know that there funds are going to make a difference and not just be put in someone else pocket. I think that these guys have hit this right on the spot. They have multiple spots that jump reassuring that 100% of your funds go to the process of providing clean water for those in need.

So what what social media platforms do they use that make them so…

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The Free Agent

truwordswordpresscom

Social media has been changing our world for around a decade now.  Many people are connected to each other and able to share information about organizations and events with just a few clicks.  Private companies and nonprofits have been able to reach huge masses of people twenty-four hours a day now.  The postman was once revered for getting communication across regardless of environmental conditions, and now anyone can direct information to recipients without leaving the comfort of home.  The experimentation of what works and what doesn’t on different platforms of social media for communication with the masses is ongoing and continuous.  New websites are continuously infiltrating efforts of communication, and users of these platforms quickly learn how to get information to others in a plethora of new and creative ways.  Nonprofits are some of the first groups to embrace all the variety of platforms and come up with exciting ways…

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Try to observe more

wendijia

Observe more can be partially understood by “experience more” or “challenge more”.But observing more is more fundamental level that everyone can easily do just by using your own eyes and then try to remember that. But sometimes, to remember something through observing can be automatically done by your brain if the scenes you observe are intriguing that somewhat tantalize your curiosity, which is totally not a difficult thing to do.

Observing can be divided into bunch of small branches, which means that you can observe more areas. For me, I like to observe people’s behaviors, such as facial expressions, gestures, movements, the words they talk about, etc. So that could be one of the reasons why I don’t like to talk too much. It does not mean that I am poor at communicating with others but don’t have desire to talk. I prefer listening when interacting in a group and…

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How do we grow?

Alex Lien's Blog

As we look at life we often see 2 different things. If we are bored and just looking at recent events, life can be going slow. But once we look back, a month, a year or even more, it just seems like life is flying by. So this is where we need to take advantage of that. Anytime you feel like life is slow or boring, do something crazy, something out of your comfort zone.

As we go through life, I recommend not holding back because whether you like it or not life goes by fast and even if the memories you create might be embarrassing or weird, when you look back at them, they can become awesome memories, fun stories and overall they help you grow. Think about every memory of your life as a part of a snowman, and with every awesome or embarrassing adventure you go on…

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Building Your Audience

Michelle Jacobson

One of the first things that Dom tells us in 140 Characters is to stay in the moment (2). He says to “realize that everyone’s attention is limited, and you will naturally arrive in the present” (2). It’s important that nonprofits focus on what is going on with them right now so that people will pay attention to what they’re saying. There’s so much information out there that it’s hard to take it all in (2). Staying in the moment will help reduce the amount of content that their followers have to look at and they’ll be more likely to keep their attention.

Simplify what you have to say “by jumping right into the middle of a narrative” (15). It can be difficult to get your thoughts out in 140 characters but it can be done. Don’t use a series of tweets to convey your thoughts (16). Any messages can…

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