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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

Organizations that joined Facebook early on endured the “price of early adoption”—they were the guinea pigs for a platform that was still figuring out just what to do with this form of user. If they’re not, it’s OK to wait—especially if time and energy are scarce. The Price of Early Adoption.

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Molotov starts its international expansion with seven African countries

TechCrunch

French startup Molotov provides an OTT TV streaming service in France with live TV, premium channels, a cloud DVR and on-demand content. There will be 15 channels at launch, such as Nina TV, Passions TV, Trace Urban, Trace Africa, Trace Urban Africa, Savannah TV, Gametoon, Africanews, Euronews, France24, Trace Sport Stars and DocuBox.

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4DX Ventures and Flutterwave back Francophone Africa’s CinetPay in $2.4M round

TechCrunch

.” The Ivorian startup acts as an online and point-of-sale payment solution for merchants to process payment from more than 130 different payment operators — mobile-money, bank cards, wallets — in nine French-speaking African countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Congo, Guinea and Benin.

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Zeraki, a Kenyan edtech providing digital solutions for school admin, raises $1.8M

TechCrunch

We’ve built an extensive distribution channel covering almost half of the high schools in Kenya, and that means we have an opportunity to solve other tech needs that schools have,” said Nyangolo. “We We plan on building more administrative tools for schools, and payment products on the parents’ side. Image Credits: Zeraki.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Online Appeals and Messaging

Bloomerang

If you’re doing this on your own, it’s a good idea to ask a few friends or volunteers who know nothing about your organization to serve as user guinea pigs. . Online giving is the fastest growing giving channel per research by M+R. Through what different channels do donors hear from you? . Is it optimized for mobile devices? .

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How to plan and run a good web conference

Forum One

Have a guinea pig user log in as a participant so you know what they are seeing and can work out any glitches. For larger meetings consider having someone assist you during the discussion to respond to the chat channel, moderate questions, and provide support for users having difficulty, while you focus on your presentation.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

odeo feed My Odeo Channel (odeo/c0183b725bcb8b19). And finally, if you want more information about Big Vision Career and Project Consulting, you can check out my website at brittbravo.com. Thanks for listening. Ilyse Hogue activism rainforest women This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5

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