Sarah Davies

This is a video of a panel run by NPower Seattle‘s Peg Giffels for the Kellog Action Lab. It features Zan McColloch-Lussier from the Pride Foundation, Jessica Ross from Treehouse, and me. We mostly cover Twitter and Facebook, but we frequently diverge into other web territories. Please feel free to spread the video around. I won’t sue you.

Some of the resources mentioned on the panel:

Ways to post to multiple sites at once: Ping.fm and Hellotxt.com
Short explanatory videos about technology and social media: Common Craft
Demographic information about social networks: danah boyd
Alternative copyright licensing options: Creative Commons

Erica Mills asked me to give a talk on the future of nonprofit communications for her UW Extension class on nonprofit management. I went over Twitter, Facebook, blogging, promotion, and tips on finding a job. Here’s the video:

And the slides:

And here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the talk:

Creative Commons
Creative Commons “Wanna Work Together?” video
Twitter in Plain English video
Human Rights Campaign Facebook Cause
RSS in Plain English video
Cory Doctorow on how to be an uber blogger video
Flip video camera
Books: Getting Things Done and Four Hour Work Week
LinkedIn
Ignite Seattle
Ignite Portland
BarCamp Seattle
BarCamp Portland
Audience suggestion: Pecha Kucha Seattle and Pecha Kucha Portland
Saturday House

I could talk about this stuff all day long. I’ll be at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference, so feel free to connect with me there or ping me on Twitter.

I got a letter in the mail this week from Creative Commons. I get lots of fundraising letters from organizations I’ve donated to in the past, and I generally find it annoying. Doctors without Borders is the worst. I donated to them some time in 2004, and every week I get pictures of dying children and pleas for moremoneymoremoneymoremoney. I think they’ve frittered away my entire donation on postage and printing costs to send me all this crap years later!

EFF is better. When I joined EFF, rather than sending me a letter that said thanks for your money, now give us more money, they sent me a letter saying thanks for your money, you’re a good person, here’s a bumper sticker to show that you’re a proud member. (Said bumper sticker is still on the wall of my cube at ACLU)

But Creative Commons was truly remarkable. This is what they sent me:

They asked me to take action four times before they asked me for money. This came with a simple card showing what sorts of stickers and t-shirts I would get for donating different amounts, and that’s it. No full color 16-page expose on starving artists, just a letter and a card. Bravo!