To mark my third year attending the South by Southwest Interactive Conference, I thought I’d share my top three lessons for nonprofits. Your videos may never go viral but you can make them likely to go viral: Trying to create a viral sensation is like trying to catch lightening in a bottle. Instead create content that matters to your audience that will achieve...

Now that I’ve had a chance to travel back home and decompress, I thought I’d take a moment to look back at my week at the SXSW Interactive Conference. There were several topics that kept appearing on the schedule in one form or another and I had the fortune to attend sessions that delved into these topics and gave me some new insights. After much...

“How Social Networking is Changing Advocacy” examined changes brought about in nonprofit advocacy by social networking technology and how nonprofits have capitalized on those changes to strengthen their relationships with supporters and serve their missions. The growth of social networking has allowed advocacy to happen in a more meaningful way than the...

With over 100 slides, Causebuilding Games was jam-packed with examples, valuable tips and resources for creating games for good. Panelists Josephine Dorado and Evonne Heyning also managed to incorporate real-life gaming into the session by asking the audience cause-related gaming questions which they could answer on Twitter with prizes for the best answers. Some of...

Attending both this year’s SxSW Interactive (SxSWi) and Nonprofit Technology Conferences (NTC) was physically exhausting and mentally stimulating. Attending SxSWi and NTC gave me the opportunity to be exposed to some of the brightest minds in the nonprofit and technology sectors and absorb an incredible amount of knowledge. As much as I would enjoy sharing...