I just received this question: When is there an appropriate time to ask someone on twitter to follow you? My quick answer is “never.” Asking people to follow you on Twitter makes you sound a bit whiny and desperate. Following is a personal thing. People follow others that seem to provide them value. Value can [...]

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Every week or so, I get a question like I did last night. It was basically, “How do you convince your boss to let me use social media?” So being a social media geek, I immediately posted the question on LinkedIn’s “Answers” tool. You can see the question and the answers here: http://www.linkedin.com/answers/non-profit/non-profit-management/NNP_MGM/975753-8616660 Three basic [...]

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Did you watch CNN this morning? It reported Paul Allen’s stats that Google+ growth is exceeding expectations. According to him, Google is now over 62 million users and adding about 625,000 new users every day. His prediction? Google+ will have over 400 million users by the end of 2012. 400 million users in a year [...]

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Nonprofits, businesses, and geeks alike were thrilled when Google+ finally rolled out business pages back in November 2011. But one of the huge limitations of pages were the limit of only one admin per page. Any time a business or nonprofit wanted to post something, it had to go through the person who first created [...]

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It’s no secret that I love Google+. And it’s really no secret that Google loves it too. If you needed further evidence that Google+ is changing the way Google works, check out your Gmail account. (You’re not still using Hotmail or Yahoo, are you?) Last night, I noticed that I can now filter my emails [...]

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Here’s a 5 minute recording of CC Chapman talking with me about using video in nonprofit work. Filmed at BlogWorld Expo in Los Angeles last month, you’ll see there’s a lot going around in the background…including voices from on high and a loud shriek!

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Here’s a video of my “Google+ for Nonprofits” session from BlogWorld Expo in Los Angeles last month. There were 2 sessions about Google+ there: Guy Kawasaki and Chris Brogan did one; I did the other. This was presented days before Google opened up pages for brands. The information presented here is still relevant but now [...]

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The year is coming to a close so it’s the season for “Top 10 Lists,” right? Here are the list of the top 10 most popular posts published here on FundraisingCoach.com in 2011. # 10. was actually a tie between both: 3 Easy Phone Tips and 3 Tips for Effective Fundraising Letters # 9. My [...]

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On Tuesday, 501 Mission Place hosted our monthly “Office Hours” on Google Hangouts. We had a blast! I hosted it using the “Hangout with extras” so I was able to give the hangout a title (not creatively called “501 Mission Place November Office Hours”). And we were able to play with Sketchpad and Notes right [...]

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I don’t normally share my messages to the Fundraising Kick folks here on my blog…but I am today. Here’s what I sent them this week. Two weeks ago, I got an email that got me thinking “why couldn’t nonprofits do that?” Here is the entire text of the email: Dear Marc Pitman, One year ago, [...]

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