March 24, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
It’s almost impossible to imagine the online world circa 2006.
In today’s era of 140-character Tweets, Facebook status updates, and Foursquare check-ins, it’s hard to believe that less than four years ago it was a challenge to find even 100 blogs devoted to the nonprofit world.
But that was the state of the online world in December, 2006, when I wrote Blogs on the Rise, an article that explored what was still uncharted territory for even the most savvy charity-minded folks.
Today, the idea of starting a blog seems almost quaint.
Yet we’re doing just that.
In this space, I’ll be leading a discussion about how nonprofit groups, foundations, volunteers, and donors are using social-media tools to advance their causes.
I’ll be pointing to best practices, interviewing nonprofit workers and other social-media experts about what’s working, linking to interesting items about social media, and listening.
The final item in that list is perhaps the most important. I hope to use this blog as a listening post—a place to collect your questions and concerns, to celebrate your social-media accomplishments, and to learn about how the nonprofit world is keeping up with the breakneck pace of social media.
With any luck, we’ll be looking back on this post sometime in 2014 marveling at how much the world has changed.
