Johanna Bates

photo by Vik Nanda
I am back from “vacation.” It involved some nice time in Maine, during which our 22-month-old learned many words, including the fave of the week, “LOON! LOOOOOOOOOON!!!” The main feature, however, was another sick-parent emergency, and our beloved greyhound has become gravely ill, too. What do you do when you need a [...]

Photo by Mikey G
I want to write about online collaboration software and Twitter and Jott and how we’re toying with all of those things in our tiny org. But when I think about social media and it’s principles, I think back to the most fundamental shift we made in our org in terms of the [...]

I want to thank everyone for the amazing comments I’ve gotten on my first post, including one from Kath from The Learning Community. She outlined some challenges she faces in her org using Web 2.0 tools.
I am just diving into this world as I’m taking on the communications work of a successful public school with [...]

I am home sick today and I have been reading up on the cool new NTEN wiki project, Be The Media, “The Social Media Empowerment Guide for Nonprofits.” Already, insightful comments have led to the creation of How Can Your Organization Avoid Drinking the Web 2.0 Kool Aid?, a checklist helping orgs understand when they [...]