Future:Media:Change

Kevin Thau and the Twitter mobile team have recently arranged free SMS tweets for Digicel Haiti customers. To activate the service, mobile phone users in Haiti can text follow @oxfam to 40404.

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More than one-third of Facebook users in the US, UK and Australia have donated money and/or goods to relief efforts aimed at the January 12, 2010 earthquake which struck Haiti, according to a joint survey conducted by Facebook and The Nielsen Company.

With new social networks popping up faster than you can tweet them, the technological landscape can become intimating for any nonprofit with limited resources or time to invest. To help us map out what nonprofits can do to understand and benefit from social networking, Future:Media:Change spoke with Heather Holdridge, Vice President of Digital, Washington DC with Fenton Communications.

Your organization may not have three years or $1 billion to spend establishing or redefining your brand, as Cingular did when it took over the AT&T name, but the branding process should be the same if you want a positive, memorable result. Here’s how.

Last week, as part of its Symbols, Branding and Persuasion series, The Change You Want To See brought in Loid Der, former creative director of the world’s largest branding agency, to instruct nonprofit and advocacy organizations in the practice of branding.

Google recently published some of their Google Wave user survey results. The most obvious finding is that Google Wave is more fun with your friends. This was to be expected, but it highlights the reality that Wave will run up against the same brick wall that renders most collaboration tools useless in organizations: Adoption.