Social Media

What is DelCor Social Media Sweet Spot?  Answer:  A live weekly webcast for association professionals aiming to harness the power of social media. “We examine current happenings within the association world and reflect on the impact of social media on association staff and members. It’s a chance to talk about the online chats, the events and meetings, and the blog posts relating to social media for associations – and the various tools used to engage.” 

What is it?   “Google Buzz is a new way (since early February), to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It's built right into Gmail, so you don't have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. If you think about it, there's always been a big social network underlying Gmail. Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most.

What on earth is “untech10”?  Answer: Untech10 became the ‘Unofficial Alternative to ASAE 2010 Technology Conference, which was canceled due to a blizzard that hit Washington, D.C.  The team from NFi Studios at this event were honored to help organize and be a sponsor to put on this truly notable day!

Social Media Club has been organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media. This is a global conversation amongst a diverse community of practitioners where the many different people who care about social media can come together to discover, connect, share, and learn.  There is also have a 'fan' page set up for the global Social Media Cub. 

SMC’s core mission is to:

Social media’s widespread influence today is not to be taken lightly.  Integrating social media into your marketing plan, means that you must build a social media team and the team must be equipped with listening ability.  So many get sucked up in the social media and end up just playing games. To avoid this,  Maddie Grant delineates some high level thoughts on building your team. that should be considered before you get started.  We comment on a few of them. 

The good news is Nonprofits are doing it right - using Social Media successfully! Many bloggers, thought leaders, and consultants are devoting extensive discussion to the role that social media can play in nonprofits' fundraising, marketing, communications, and programmatic work. (For but a few examples, look to Beth Kanter's blog, the Nonprofit Technology Network, M+R Strategic Services, and many others.

Creating the strategy and harnessing the power of new digital rules with the intent of driving measurable operational benefits from social media/social leadership is a monumental task in itself. To make this chore a little less grueling and, specifically in relationship to blogs, PostRank, base their metrics on what has been termed the 5 C’s of Engagement. 

1.    Creating
2.    Critiquing
3.    Chatting
4.    Collecting
5.    Clicking

The term "Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web applications which facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.

Orlando, Florida (October 16th, 2009) - NFi Studios was selected to be featured as an online community partner in the association industry by SocialFish in a whitepaper titled, “Six Online Community Vendors for Associations: An Analysis.” NFi Studios works closely with SocialFish to provide tools and education to associations looking to take their organization to the next level.