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Is Twitter Just Pointless Babble?
By: Christi Dixon
08/31/2009 - There's a great social media blog published by Jeff Bullas. I visit often because he posts amusing cartoons, and I'm a sucker for a good morning comic. His most recent post aims to debunk the latest findings suggesting Twitter is about 40% pointless babble. (NO…
Five Reasons I Want the Local Police to Use Social Media
By: Marijean Jaggers
08/27/2009 - I was enjoying a cup of coffee this morning and observed a disturbing scene. A man pulled up to the coffee shop and jumped out of his truck and went inside, leaving his daughter (who was maybe a year old) in the backseat in her…
United Way's Online Auction: Shopping Delight!
By: Cathy Dunkin
08/13/2009 - Husbands are impossible to buy gifts for. But this year, I'm shopping for Carter's birthday online at www.givebidwin.com, the United Way's amazing online auction that started on Monday and goes through the Aug. 20. Because Carter is a big Blues hockey fan, I'll definitely check…
New PetLover Group Will Lead the Pack for Stray and Rescue Groups
By: Cathy Dunkin
08/11/2009 - As an animal lover and the proud parent of rescue dogs Murphy and Annie, my heart goes out to all the homeless pets in shelters. So when Nestlé Purina invited me to get involved in the new St. Louis PetLover Coalition, I leapt at the…
Which Search Engine Would You Choose, Google, Bing or Yahoo? Results May Surprise You
By: Justin Lopinot
08/11/2009 - This weekend - thanks to our friend, social media strategy consultant Jason Baer - I learned about BlindSearch, a new tool that lets you compare the search results from Google, Yahoo and Bing. Check it out by clicking here (warning: the site doesn't work well…
Center for NonProfit Excellence Launches Board Development Program; Accepting Nominations Now
By: Marijean Jaggers
08/10/2009 - Standing Partnership's 2009 Charlottesville Community Partner is the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. We've worked with the CNE to help launch and promote its new, signature program, the Board Development Academy. We're excited to announce that the program will be accepting nominations to fill the 20…
Best Circular Use of Twitter in Charlottesville this Week
By: Marijean Jaggers
08/07/2009 - In my community, I am the social media correspondent for the Charlottesville Newsplex, a broadcast organization with local affiliates of Fox, ABC and CBS. In this role, I do a live TV segment once a week and remain on call for the news staff to…
Everything Old is New Again: Twitter is the New Telegraph
By: Julie Steininger
08/05/2009 - Some people are naturals; some people are not. Some people tweet with ease; some people agonize over paring down their meaningful commentary to 140 characters. Ben Schott, author of Schott's Vocab, wrote in the New York Times that "there is nothing new about technology imposing…
ER Docs Tweet, Connect Online: How Health Care is Using Social Media
By: Marijean Jaggers
08/05/2009 - Health care is adopting social media and in particular, a social network developed specifically for physicians: Ozmosis. As we say on Facebook, Standing Partnership likes this. What better tool than a secure, private social network for physicians to connect, collaborate, learn, discover and grow? Having…
The Push Is On! Standing Partners With KidSmart for Its Fourth Annual Supply Drive
By: Gretchen Schiltz
08/04/2009 - It's back-to-school season again, and Standing is excited to be participating once again in KidSmart's Push for Pencils campaign. KidSmart is a local nonprofit that supplies 45,000 St. Louis-area children with basic school supplies that they could not afford otherwise. Last year, Standing and our…
