It’s been a busy week. Hard to believe it’s Friday already. Time to look at a few interesting bits on arts marketing and social media that you might have missed. ON TWITTER Listening to Twitter – In this TED talk, twitter co-founder Evan Williams notes how the use of twitter has evolved in une...

Beth Kanter has written a really thorough piece about Twestival as an online and social fundraising model. I would heartily recommend you read her post based around a conversation with the woman behind Twestival: Amanda Rose. Beth has this summary of lessons from Amanda: 1) Don’t Spearhead A W...

New York City Opera is doing something interesting. For those of you who haven’t followed this story… hmm, how can I make this short? Let’s see… The Metropolitan Opera is starting to thrive under the direction of Peter Gelb, who has introduced all kinds of forward-thinking changes. In a bid ...

Thinking about starting a blog in 2009? Before the holidays, I asked some nonprofits to share with me their blogging lessons learned. Here are some of the comments I heard through  NTEN’s Nonprofit Blogging Affinity Group List. (NTEN groups are a great resource, by the way, and this same list...

“Oh, no! That’s what our newsletter looks like to a third of the people on our mailing list?!?” Don’t be her. Preview your e-newsletter in different email programs. Those new to the world of e-newsletter publishing are often surprised to learn that their email newsletters can...

I've been mulling this one over for several days, not sure what to do with it. But I need to do SOMETHING. It was the morning of New Year's Eve. Philip and I were reading in bed. NPR was on in the background. We were only half listening. It was "Talk of the Nation." Then Philip recognized it was And...

Michael is once again spot-on, although he buries his lede a bit: If I were to write a description of an online seminar for nonprofits that captures what I see going on, it would probably be something like this: Title: Don’t Fall Behind in Raising Money: 27 Free Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Onl...

This afternoon I spoke at the National Housing and Disrepair Forum annual conference. 100 or so council officers, solicitors, barristers, housing association types and others worrying about just how much money is spent on compensating council tenants for repairs that haven’t been done. This is...

Historian Arnold Toynbee theorized that civilizations gained the brio to flourish in the face of a "challenge-and-response" scenario: a military defeat, an inhospitable climate, or some other hindrance, was requisite to call forth the creative energy that would build an empire. There's a lesson ther...

Thanks to the hard work of John Kenyon, the nonprofit technology community now has a professional code of conduct. In the next few months look for the launch of a logo and way for all nonprofit tech professionals, like us here at See3, to formally adopt this code. Non-Profit Technology Professionals...