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Thanks to you, I hit the ground running (even though I’m biking), but I got a long way to go!!

Posted by that damn redhead on Feb 24, 2012 in Nonprofits, Team in Training, Uncategorized | 0 comments

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Wow, talk about a great start!! To say that I am both overwhelmed and yet grateful at the response I’ve had since announcing this endeavor would be an understatement. In twenty-four hours, my fundraising total is now up to $770!! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! It’s times like this where I am reminded that one should never underestimate the power of their network. I think we all take that for granted...

I just made a pretty big commitment, and I need your help.

Posted by that damn redhead on Feb 23, 2012 in Featured, Nonprofits, Team in Training | 7 comments

Let me just get this out of the way right now, because we’re not fooling anybody here — I’m afraid of commitment. There. I said it. I have a hard time committing to anything. AN-EE-THING. I changed majors in college a dozen times (and still regret not sticking with my first choice — veterinary medicine). In relationships, it’s not the guy, I’m always the one afraid to commit (the term “settle” is not in my vocabulary). Hell, I’ve had a heck...

Revisiting my 2011 tech predictions — FREE fake Jamaican accent included, mon!

Posted by that damn redhead on Jan 1, 2012 in Case Studies, Tech, Uncategorized | 2 comments

One thing that annoys the heck out of me about the end of every year is that starting in December, the entire blogosphere becomes Miss Cleo and obnoxiously tries to predict what will happen in the next year in social media/tech trends, fake Jamaican accent and all. (OK, maybe I just read them in a fake Jamaican accent to make them more entertaining and bearable. Try it–you’ll see.) Yet, seldom do most of those fake-Jamaican-accented, blogging tech prophets actually compare how well...

Another “Ning” bites the dust, another chance to drive this important lesson home.

Posted by that damn redhead on Nov 18, 2011 in Case Studies, Featured, Nonprofits, Social Media | 2 comments

Way back in July 2010 (which is light years in internet time), the “create-your-own-social-network” platform Ning decided to nix its freemium model in favor of a tiered pricing plan. Even though its lowest tier, for groups under 150 members, was only $2.95 a month, many small nonprofits, civil service organizations, and other groups already strapped for cash that were using the Ning platform as their main hub were up a creek with nowhere to go. So I wrote a post about a service I...

Don’t fish in my friends and I won’t pee in your pool.

Posted by that damn redhead on Sep 22, 2011 in Featured, Rants, Social Media | 10 comments

While everybody’s having their usual post-Facebook-changes anyeurism, where they kick and scream about a service they don’t pay for making changes as if there isn’t anything actually significant going on in the world, I’d like to take a moment and talk about the privacy issue. No, not the usual “Facebook just changed/simplified/complicated/sold-your-shoe-size-to-the-government” privacy issue that occurs once in a while, but of a different kind. The kind...