Last Chance DC Nonprofits: Apply for Fenton's Social Media Grant

You've got a mere few hours left, DC-area nonprofits, to apply for a $10,000 service grant from Fenton Communications to help your organization develop a stronger and more effective social media strategy in 2010. The grant recipient will receive up to $10K in social media auditing, monitoring, and strategic recommendations from industry powerhouse Fenton Communications.

The deadline is today so get on it and tell your Washington, DC-area nonprofit friends as well.

In addition, they've got a free (registration required) downloadable guide, WATTA? What Are They Talking About: Social Media, Web 2.0 and Your Online Engagement Strategy that's worth a read if you work on this type of strategy at a nonprofit or cause-driven organization. The guide goes in-depth on things the importance of "listening" to social media conversations already taking place, targeting your audience, developing active ideas to join the conversation, producing engaging content, the best ways of distributing that content, and getting social. In addition, the guide gives some great examples of strategies that have worked for real organizations and campaigns. And it's full of pretty graphics.

If you apply and end up being this year's grant recipient, I bet those are the things they'll help you develop to advance your Web 2.0 strategy. Good luck and spread the word... quickly!