Online Guides and Podcasts from MediaTrust

March 27, 2009 in BUSINESS, MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, VCS

MediaTrust offer a series of online guides and podcasts to help you deal with the media to promote your organisation.  There’s a lot of useful stuff here.

10 years of Cluetrain – have you read it?

March 26, 2009 in ADVICE, MEDIA

The Cluetrain Manifesto will be 10 years old in April.  If you’ve never heard of it or read it then maybe now’s the time to take a look and see what it’s about. The website for it is at http://www.cluetrain.com and you can read it online or download it in zipped ASCII, PDF or as [...]

Spin Cycles – Spin, the spinners and the spun

March 22, 2009 in MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA

CBC Radio’s Ira Basen produced a series of programs on the subject of Spin, or how information is presented in order to create a particular perception of it.  There are six episodes, available for download here. Enjoy…

DavePress: Social reporting kitbag

March 22, 2009 in ICT, MEDIA, MOBILE, NPTECHUK, SOCIAL MEDIA, VCS, WEB

An excellent post from Dave Briggs about the sorts of equipment you could use to do some informal/formal Social Reporting at any events you attend. Well worth reading.

Getting you started – free campaigning and influencing factsheets from NCVO

March 20, 2009 in COMMUNITY, MEDIA, NEWS, VCS

NCVO have produced a series of free factsheets to help you carry out campaigning and influencing.  You can download them from http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/campaigningeffectiveness/resources/index.asp?id=10384

Green IT for Dummies: HP/Freeform Dynamics special edition

March 18, 2009 in COMMUNITY, ICT, books

If you’re thinking about how you should deal with green and sustainability issues for your ICT infrastructure then this new resource could be a very useful starting point.  You can read David Tebbutt’s blog post about it at http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2009/03/green-it-for-dummies-hpfreeform-dynamics-special-edition.html and you can also download a copy from there as well.

Abbey Charity PR Guide

March 16, 2009 in BUSINESS, COMMUNITY, MEDIA, VCS

This guide has been produced by Abbey’s Charitable Trust with the help and experience of many charity communication officers, to highlight best practices in communications. You can download a copy here

nfpSynergy – 10 tips for charities from journalists

March 16, 2009 in BUSINESS, COMMUNITY, VCS

nfpSynergy run a twice yearly survey of journalists, asking their views about the ways that charities interact with them.  They’ve now produced a document which summarises the responses they’ve had from journalists about how charities handle media work.  You can download a copy here, it looks very useful.

About Face: A free white paper on Facebook Pages

March 10, 2009 in COMMUNITY, MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, VCS

The recent update to Facebook Pages means that your organisation might now be able to make more use of these to promote your aims and services and create engagement. The Advance Guard has collected some ideas and tips into a white paper that can now be freely downloaded and shared under a Creative Commons [...]