Blogging and digital curation are my true calling; I write about social media strategy, building Open Community, humanizing business. I am a classic Gen-X early adopter and also a big picture thinker; I like to always stay ahead of the curve. I was born in Bangkok but grew up in Washington DC and consider myself for all intents and purposes a true (and rare) DC native.
Just for fun, I randomly decided I was going to archive a big pile of old concert flyers from the 80′s when I was growing up in DC. so I’ve started a DCpunkrock Tumblr. If you were around and in the scene then, or have friends who were, I’d be grateful if you would let them know, in case they want to add to the archive.
Microfinance is a multi-billion dollar industry with a rich history for supporting entrepreneurship and its endeavor to end global poverty. In recent years, we have witnessed the rise of crowdfunding, an industry devoted to supporting entrepreneurship by making capital easier to access through social media and web-based platforms. Like microfinance, crowdfunding ultimately serves as an alternative to traditional investment mechanisms like banks or venture capital. As both industries are inherently synergistic, I believe crowdfunding can channel its innovative funding mechanisms into the model of microfinance, ultimately benefitting the worlds poor in a more efficient and accessible manner.
As you know, my work with Lindy is all about helping organizations build the long term capacity for the work of social media management. We’ve seen substantive changes in how organizations are thinking about and implementing social media in the last few years, and I see some very important trends coming down the pike.
“Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.”
Our friend Danielle Brigida at the National Wildlife Federation just posted this Quarterly Update about their recent social media successes. Do you do this for your org? Great idea!
Can social influence truly be measured? Is anyone using influence tools? What’s the future of influence marketing?
This is a guest post from Dan Marom, co-author of The Crowdfunding Revolution. In this series of posts about social media books, I invite the author to share something about themselves and why they wrote the book, and what in the book might be of particular interest to association or nonprofit audiences.
Join me for a webinar about winning community management strategies, hosted by Higher Logic on Thursday May 16 at 2 pm ET. We all know launching a private social network is much easier than developing an actual community of participants who are connected, active and engaged. I’ll help you gather the materials you need to start sparking interest and activity within your private online community.
“There are a number of temporary visa programs currently in place in the US. The largest and arguably most important is the H-1B program, which allows US businesses to temporarily employ high-skilled foreign workers in key specialty occupations. This infographic lays out statistical information on immigrant workers hired by U.S. companies on temporary H-1B visas – and in the process, dispels some myths about the H-1B program.”
Maddie Grant, CAE and Lindy Dreyer are strategic consultants at ICF Ironworks.
We also manage the SocialFish blog, the biggest industry social media blog for associations and nonprofits. We have regular bloggers writing for us on social strategy, implementation, social theory, social business and lots of other topics that interest us and push our industry forward. Every author's posts are their own, and none represent the views of ICF Ironworks or ICF International.
More on our consulting is here.
Happy reading.
Lindy Dreyer
lindy@socialfish.org
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Maddie Grant
maddie@socialfish.org
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Washington, DC
202-713-5343
Just for fun, I randomly decided I was going to archive a big pile of old concert flyers from the 80′s when I was growing up in DC. so I’ve started a…
Microfinance is a multi-billion dollar industry with a rich history for supporting entrepreneurship and its endeavor to end global poverty. In recent…
As you know, my work with Lindy is all about helping organizations build the long term capacity for the work of social media management. We’ve seen s…
“Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, st…
Our friend Danielle Brigida at the National Wildlife Federation just posted this Quarterly Update about their recent social media successes. Do you d…
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