Comments on: Not for profits: The challenge of building support in online communities http://james.fehon.id.au/blog/2009/10/28/not-for-profits-the-challenge-of-building-support-in-online-communities/ at fehon.id.au Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mark http://james.fehon.id.au/blog/2009/10/28/not-for-profits-the-challenge-of-building-support-in-online-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-3564 Mark Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:44:20 +0000 http://james.fehon.id.au/blog/?p=476#comment-3564 Oops, meant to say "...many of these challenges are the same in for-profits..." Oops, meant to say “…many of these challenges are the same in for-profits…”

]]> By: Mark http://james.fehon.id.au/blog/2009/10/28/not-for-profits-the-challenge-of-building-support-in-online-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-3562 Mark Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:42:35 +0000 http://james.fehon.id.au/blog/?p=476#comment-3562 Hi James. You've done a good job of encapsulating many of the challenges NGOs face when trying to engage in social media. I suspect many of these challenges are the same for non-profits, although they will have significantly larger budgets at their disposal and therefore will not face the same resource constraints. In fact, resource constraints - that is, time and money - is probably the biggest challenge for NGOs universally. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how NGOs can overcome this particular constraint when trying to engage with online communities. The ideal, of course, if for online communities to be mostly self managed, but how to engage with these communities in the first place, and how to keep them engaged with the organisation? Hi James. You’ve done a good job of encapsulating many of the challenges NGOs face when trying to engage in social media. I suspect many of these challenges are the same for non-profits, although they will have significantly larger budgets at their disposal and therefore will not face the same resource constraints.

In fact, resource constraints – that is, time and money – is probably the biggest challenge for NGOs universally. I’d love to hear your thoughts on how NGOs can overcome this particular constraint when trying to engage with online communities. The ideal, of course, if for online communities to be mostly self managed, but how to engage with these communities in the first place, and how to keep them engaged with the organisation?

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