November 2008 – Ruby Sinreich

I wrote the following in response to a request to give an overview of how board members can use Facebook Causes to help the organization where I work, the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). I thought it would make a handy reference for other organizations taking baby steps on Facebook.

This advice is intended for people that are already using Facebook (or who want to use it). The power of this tool is through your own social networks (friends, family, colleagues) and you will find it takes time and energy to develop your Facebook network, if your friends are on Facebook at all. Please do not join just for the purpose of helping FOR, but instead use your personal networks wherever they may exist (church, organizations, work, neighbors, friends, etc.).

Starting with the simplest, here are three easy ways to promote an organization on Facebook:
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Tweets from 2008-11-12

November 12, 2008

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Fell asleep w/ visions of baby names & breastfeeding dancing in my head. Awoke cataloging the reasons I hate staff meetings. Hmm. #
Hey fellow preggers (@trikegirl & mrs. @chimprawk), I have made a wonderful discovery: elastic shoelaces! Now I can put on sneakers again. #
@tbeckett Where you been? 20 weeks and counting… #
@tbeckett We don’t even know the baby’s *last* name yet, so give us time and hold the expectations. 😉 #
Am really getting annoyed with the guy who supposedly wants to collaborate but won’t share any info with me! I can’t help you. Moving on. #
@fionamorgan That depends on what you are talking about. I see 4 updates on your page now. BTW, welcome to Twitter, Fiona! 😀 #
@martin_kelley That’s just the tip of the iceberg. I use the SS dB http://is.gd/78W8 & look up names’ etymology at http://is.gd/78Wb. #
@jhlinko H&H is the only *real* bagel place I’ve found around there, but there’s a small deli around 75th-ish on the E side of Broadway. #
@jhlinko I agree with @mrjellied. H&H is part of the UWS experience. Plus butter on a fresh bagel is hardly a principle I’d defend. #
Anyone know a good tool to index a web site, ie: tally & list pages, images, & maybe directories? This ought to be simple. #
BTW @tbeckett, I love advice, especially from folks like you whose values are similar to mine. Bring it on! #
@martin_kelley So if Google:site is to be believed, we have over 4,000 pages! http://is.gd/79cU (Already have a local site archve.) #
@msfour Heh, I don’t think there’s any risk of that. 😉 #
@msfour But thanks for http://nymbler.com, I hadn’t seen that before. 🙂 #
Very good idea! Retweeting @tbeckett: …a friend used the “President test” when naming kids. Had to sound appropriate for the president… #
@tbeckett Then again… who would have thought someone named Barack Hussein Obama could be elected presisdent? 😉 #
@martin_kelley Good point. If it has my last name, finding him or her on Google won’t be hard. #
@fionamorgan I can’t say Hussein is on my baby name list, but it certainly passes the president test now. I do have other Arabic words. #
Responding to a request for instructions to our board members about how to use Facebook Causes to raise money for us. Treading carefully. #
Retweeting @wonkette: Dick Cheney To Show Joe Biden His Lair Tomorrow… http://tinyurl.com/6osd39 #

Month: November 2008

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Facebook 101 for nonprofits

Tweets from 2008-11-12