Continuing from where I left off with last week’s Social Media Spotlight post, I would like to highlight a few of the different ways Keep A Child Alive uses social media. Depending on the responses I receive, I may go in-depth on each of these in my next blog post. Website: You will notice that

12 – time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys is Co-founder and Global Ambassador to Keep A Child Alive, a global foundation dedicated to providing anti-retroviral treatments and support to children and families within Africa and India affected by HIV/AIDS. In 2002, Alicia visited Africa on behalf of an invitation to perform there.  While in Africa,

Visit YouTube’s non-profit channel to find out how your non-profit organization can leverage YouTube’s video platform to raise awareness, reach millions of viewers, and increase fundraising efforts. Leveraging YouTube in conjunction with Causes can drastically influence your non-profit’s online reach by integrating with the most popular social media platforms used today.

Do you have an efficient way to keep your e-mails organized and your inbox empty on a regular basis? Many people have trouble prioritizing their emails and along the way emails sometimes get lost amongst the ever piling new one’s (which can lead to some unpleasant consequences). If you are reading this and nodding, it’s

Bit.ly has finally started to leverage the vast quantity of links and clicks through its url shortening service with the launch of its new bitly.tv service out of its labs linking the most popular videos on the bit.ly service over a given time period. Bit.ly has the ability to collect a huge amount of data

We live in a beta culture – everything, starting with the applications we use to the services we rely on are constantly being improved and developed. We have gone from people going to the store and buying software to hundreds of thousands of people who willingly use software that is not fully stable for the

Bing launched an iPhone app today. This continues Bing’s move to compete with Google on a mobile level. The Bing iPhone application is fine in nature but slow in execution. Even over wifi, the application seemed to drag slightly. Reports are stating that the mobile online interface is snappier and overall a more polished experience

Twitter has a new feature currently in beta testing.  This feature will allow you to change the voice of a brand from an individual representation to that of a community.  Employees of large organizations would be able to tweet under the company’s profile with a mention of the individuals name as well below it. With

Google and Facebook have both announced URL shortening services today.  Shortening URL’s is becoming increasingly popular as a way of saving time consuming keystrokes on mobile devices. Google Google has added a URL shortener called goo.gl that works with The Google Toolbar and its Feedburner service to provide shortened URLs that leverage the Google architecture. Some

Rumors have been circulating around that Google wants an actual “Google Phone”. The dream is hitting reality next month. When the G1 launched on T-Mobile, it was the first Android phone. It had Google’s name on the back and was said to be developed in partnership with Google. People called it the Google phone. We