August 23rd, 2010

Daily Specials

Posted by: K Street Cafe Editor

Add Action to Any Website (Engage)
Engage’s “Multiply” platform allows organizations to add grassroots action tools to any website.

Dealing with the Disaster of Online Critique
(Tech President)
Learn pointers from the Air Force’s “Blog Assessment Strategy” for dealing with criticism online.

August 4th, 2010

Daily Specials

Posted by: K Street Cafe Editor

Forbes Blogs to Get a Big Upgrade, Every Reporter Will Have One (Advocacy 2.0)
Forbes.com re-launched yesterday, requiring each reporter to maintain their own blog.

Twitter’s Too Much for the Senate (Tech President)
Is the modern media environment contributing to the radicalizing of government?

July 21st, 2010

Daily Specials

Posted by: K Street Cafe Editor

Bringing Blogging’s Energy to the Department of, Well, You Know (TechPresident)
The Department of Energy launches a new blog, aptly named Energy Blog, aiming to increase transparency and engagement.

N.A.A.C.P. Backtracks on Official Accused of Bias
(The New York Times)
Controversy over truncated video posting raises issues of transparency when blogging.

February 4th, 2010

PR and Social Media: Across the Blogosphere

Posted by: Maddie Grant

I’m Maddie Grant, an association/nonprofit industry blogger on social media and online community building. I’m very happy to have been invited to be a regular poster on K Street Cafe.

This is my first post here, so I’m still getting the lay of the land as to what kinds of topics will interest K Street readers. I am an avid blog reader and definitely consider myself a “content curator”; Here’s the kind of stuff I read and write about on my blog.

So I thought I’d do two things. First, I want point you to a few PR/Public Affairs/Advocacy related blog posts I’ve found very interesting recently – and ask you to tell me if these float your boat or not. Check ‘em out.

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November 17th, 2009

Social Media and 501(c)(3) – Putting Nonprofit Status at Risk?

Posted by: Andrew Mirsky

A question came up about the new media activities of 501c3 organizations hosting social media platforms for the public (Thank you to Debbie Miller for her assistance with this research):

Question: Can a 501c3 private foundation or public charity put its tax-exempt status at risk by hosting a social media platform?  Specifically, could the advocacy and electioneering activities of individuals and groups using that social media platform be treated as the direct action – or facilitation of direct action – by that foundation of activities inconsistent with its tax exempt 501(c)(3) status?

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