Social Media

Why wait until Monday morning when Friday afternoon quarterbacking can be just as much fun?  (Okay, that was my lame attempt to dispel a gay stereotype and prove that I really DO know when the Superbowl is being played...but I digress.) And what better topic to dissect this week than the massive self-inflicted implosion of the Susan Komen Foundation?  So much has already been written about how poorly Komen managed its de-funding, flip flop, and subqeuent re-funding of Planned Parenthood that this week's lessons alone could fill a "How NOT to..." book.  

Internet advocates across the country celebrated today as Senator Harry Reid announced that he was indefinitely delaying a vote on the PROTECT IP Act - and then a few hours later, Rep. Lamar Smith shelved any further action on the Stop Online Piracy Act.   Online policy advocacy groups across the country immediately heralded the news; my favorite banner headline was from arstechnica.com, which featured crumbling tombstones engraved respectively with SOPA and PIPA.

Recently ZeroDivide was asked by one of our foundation partners to help them integrate Twitter into a convening to meet two main goals:

1. To introduce convening participants to the power of social media
2. To model the benefits of using Twitter to promote a shared learning experience and create additional engagement between the participants and the foundation  

I recently spoke at the Social Media for Nonprofits Conference (#SM4NP) in San Francisco on the topic of tech infrastructure as an overlooked element of social media success. During the session with Executive Directors, we asked for their burning questions but were unable to answer them all...

...this isn't quite what we meant."

Over the past few weeks, the Occupy Wall Street movement – or #OWS if you’re following along on Twitter – has spread like wildfire. According to the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ page on Wikipedia, as of October 9 approximately 900 demonstrations have taken place in over 95 cities across 82 countries.