Nonprofit Networking Lunch - May 7th, 2010

Do you work for a nonprofit? Are you interested in learning about Social Media 101 while networking with your peers? Then come join me at First Federal (2440 Mall Drive, North Charleston) on May 7th, 2010. Keep reading for the session description and registration details.

Session description: "What the heck is social media? Wondering if you should bother with Twitter, Facebook, or a Blog? Not sure of the difference between friends, fans, and followers? Tina Arnoldi, Director of Information Management at Coastal Community Foundation, will talk about how they got started with social media, what’s worked for them, challenges along the way and how they define success."

The presentation will be from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm followed by networking and free lunch from 12:30pm - 1:30pm. Please call Lynn Greer at 843-529-5940 to RSVP by May 5th and spread the word to nonprofits in the Charleston area!

Social bookmarking with Delicious

I finally set up an account with delicious so I have all my bookmarks in one place and can keep them organized. If you already have a yahoo account, simply sign in from the home page of delicious.com to get started.

Other than being free, there are some great things about this site. I love the ability to make bookmarks private or public. I have some things in my account that the general public may not care about, so I’ve marked those private. My work-related ones are all public and have tags such as nptech and socialmedia that may be of interest to other people working in the field.

The great (and obvious) advantage is having them all in one place. Whether you travel or occasionally work from home, it can be inconvenient to have multiple computers with your favorite web sites stored.

I was also able to easily import my existing Firefox bookmarks into delicious. Tagging them properly took some time, but now they are more accessible.

Firefox users will love the add-on from delicious. This makes it even easier to tag a site when you’re surfing the web. I’m sure there are more features I haven’t figured out yet, so these are just a few of the highlights.

Why didn’t I do this sooner?

Spring cleaning your shared computer files

If you have a shared file system on your server (or even in your home), chances are it has become a mess over the years! You have subfolders within subfolders within subfolders. You may even have multiple folders with the same kind of information.

YourDir is a great freeware program to help you clean up your file structure by giving you a picture of your folders (see image in this post). Download it, unzip, and double-click the exe file to run it. Once you do this, you'll click on the top-left button to select a new top-level folder to examine. Nesting is the number of sub-folders you want to view. I recommend starting with three to see your results. If you change the "nesting" number, don't forget to hit refresh (second button from the left). Once this is done, you may want to print your results, so you can develop a strategy for cleaning up.