Which Social Media is right for the Details Diva?

I am a member of Ryze and many members have used LinkedIn for awhile. I like the thought of LinkedIn, it can connect those in your community and it is ONLY business oriented.

I swore up and down I’d NEVER have a MySpace or FaceBook blog. Weren’t they mostly for teenagers and young adults?
In my mind, the different Facebook pages I looked at, their owners seemed to indiscriminately add “Friends”.
But now that FaceBook is becoming mainstream, do I have to rethink this?

Now Twitter is all the rage…since I’m NOT and NEVER will be a text-er  I cannot see myself using this.  Unless it is to update others in my community of goings-on. But I would rather do that through email.

• *Special Note**

Back in 1998 or so,my mother would send me letters from Florida about protecting myself on the ‘Net.  Being tech-savvy I already knew this but “Hey….who was I to rain on her parade?”

On March 20, she called up and said she saw on the Today show that I should put my resume on FaceBook.   I was horrified, I certainly couldn’t put one out there with my personal information.  I’m still leery about doing it, but maybe, just maybe.

Which Social Media do you use? Take my Poll here

Nonprofit Fundraising in a Bad Economy

This is something I thought I’d share…what can we do in our communities?

Nonprofit Fundraising in a Bad Economy  by David Teten at thevirtualhandshake.com/blog

I had lunch yesterday with the founder and CEO of a successful, technology-savvy nonprofit. Unsurprisingly, he was very concerned about reaching his fundraising goals for 2009 (and thereafter). We brainstormed about ways that some of the concepts in The Virtual Handshake could be used to help in his situation.

One of his challenges is that donors need a trigger event to give money. Historically, a trigger event might be an entrepreneur who sold his company and received a large payout, or a Wall Street executive who received a large annual bonus. However, in this economic environment, what are trigger events?

Read more here   http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog 3/29/09

Most of my Ryze.com networks are no longer active!!!

I was truly pleased that Scott Allen  is still around.  I first found Scott as an Author on About.com where I followed him to Ryze.com.  He truly gave some great advice and had thought provoking articles.   You can find Scott also at VirtualHandshake.com  He has a book with the same name co-written by him. I plan to add him to my blogroll once I figure out how to do that.  LOL

Does this mean that everyone is moving to LinkedIn, FaceBook and/or Twitter?? Please respond to what types of social media you are using…..and why.