I subscribe to a healthy number of feeds from nonprofit marketing or media blogs. After reading of how so many organizations are using social media really well, I sometimes feel disheartened. Everyone’s doing cool things with their organization’s blog but me!
But then I started wondering: just how many Canadian nonprofits are using social media well? Am I really that far behind?
Since I’m familiar with a lot of the agencies who belong to the Canadian Christian Relief and Development Agency, I thought I’d do a quick survey of which of these use blogs. Maybe later I’ll do a Facebook usage survey.
Canadian Christian nonprofits who do not have (visible) blogs
Canadian Reformed World Relief Fund doesn’t have a visible blog. There isn’t a search function on the website, though, and I was too lazy to hunt for a blog past the first page.
CAUSE doesn’t have one that I can find. (By the way, this agency is WAY cooler than its website would lead one to believe.)
CBM Canada does not have a blog. It does have a slick website, though.
Christian Children’s Fund of Canada has a great website. No blog that I can find.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee may not have an obvious blog, but it does have a link to the CRC Justice Seekers ning plus an invitation to join their facebook cause. Very cool.
No blog for Christian Horizons.
Nor for Compassion Canada.
Nor Emmanuel International Canada.
Nor Opportunity International Canada. But they do have a really nice site with lots of news updates on it.
Samaritan’s Purse doesn’t have a blog.
Nor does World Relief Canada.
No blog from World Vision Canada, although they do have a quiz on the home page.
Canadian Christian nonprofits who do have blogs
On its home page, ADRA Canada displays easy-to-find, informative links to two intern blogs. I don’t see a corporate blog.
The Salvation Army is incredibly connected. On their home page, I can read blog excerpts, as well as click through to read the full post and comment. Also on the home page I see links to a Flickr site, a Facebook friend invitation, plus a poll. Wow.
SIM Canada (disclosure: I work for SIM) has a link on the homepage to an intern’s blog.
Concluding thoughts
I feel better knowing that only three out of fifteen agencies that I looked at are offering blogs. It looks like organizations are testing different tools that work for them, which only makes sense.
And for the record, I’m going to be paying a lot more attention to the Salvation Army in the near future.
Filed under: media | Tagged: blogs, Canadian, CCRDA, Christian, nonprofit, social media
