Ryan Quiel | Online Marketer for Social Good

Change.org|Create a Petition

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:18:00 -0400

Mac Wireless Keyboard Fix for Battery Contact

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:46:00 -0500

If you work on a Mac desktop you will have to replace your keyboard batteries from time to time. Sadly, as you continue to extract and put in new batteries, the spring looses it’s contact to the positive end of the battery.

Today after I put in new batteries, the green light would not even turn on. After some time trying 4 different types of AA batteries I went searching online for a DIY solution rather than buy another $70 keyboard.

Sure enough, hundreds out there have this same problem. The fix is taking a pea size ball of aluminum foil and dropping it in the tube. Then press all three batteries in and screw/push hard the top cap with a penny.

Now rather than having one bad point of contact, you have numerous because of the squished aluminum. Bingo, it works!

Great illustration of the commitment curve to use to slowly...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:37:00 -0500

Great illustration of the commitment curve to use to slowly nurture your cause audience. This was presented by Purpose CEO Jeremy Heimans today at Social Media Week.

Full Webcast here:

http://new.livestream.com/smwnychange/JeremyHeimans

If you are in the Brooklyn area, you should join me at the...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:33:00 -0500

If you are in the Brooklyn area, you should join me at the Common Pitch (Founded by Alex Bogusky of CP+B & Common.is) tonight where we can watch social entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to change the world: http://www.brooklynbowl.com/event/92945/

Social Media Week in NYC

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:20:00 -0500

Social Media Week in NYC:

Keynote by Alex Bogusky + Innovative Models for Social Good Collaboration

Great illustration to help understand where to focus your SEO...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:19:00 -0400

Great illustration to help understand where to focus your SEO efforts. Hyperlocal nonprofits will gain much in the way of traffic if Bing continues to grow. Why? Because Bing takes into account the users IP location and gives relevant results based on geo-location.

Best Keynote of the Year!

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:39:00 -0400

Best Keynote of the Year!

"The loss of control you fear is already in the past."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:36:00 -0400

““The loss of control you fear is already in the past.””

- Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody

Donation Amounts - Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:28:00 -0400

So, woke up to move my car this morning, only to find it had a ticket already on it. Why, because each day of the week has a different time for street sweeping, different duration window and 2 hours earlier if parking meters are present!

The city of San Francisco does this so you can’t remember the street sweeping hours = getting a 55 dollar ticket. Also elminates “word of mouth” advise to help your fellow man.

Donation amounts need to be the polar oppisite. Make sure that each amount is a easy number to get your head around and then keep that number as long as you can. Make it intuitive, e.g. Plant a tree = $10, and save a old growth tree = $100.

If you keep it simple and don’t change your numbers from month to month, year to year, then your advocates for your non-profit will spread SIMPLE numbers to their friends that will make a large impact on your bottom line.

We used to give 8 different donations types, 8 different amounts and in different scheduled donation intervals. Use KISS! Make your non-profit more like IN-&-OUT. IN-&-OUT is easy to explain to a out-of-towner because it is a simple concept (just one type of burger) and because I can explain it in 15 seconds, my friend ususally wants to eat there before they leave California.

"We could go on and on, but it all boils down to future ubiquity for personal online profiles,..."

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:04:00 -0400

“We could go on and on, but it all boils down to future ubiquity for personal online profiles, representing every individual who is online, which in mature consumer societies will mean 99% of the population.”

- Trend Watching

Followed this fire all last night in my home town of Santa...

Fri, 08 May 2009 14:11:00 -0400

Followed this fire all last night in my home town of Santa Barbara. Where did I find the most accurate and up to date information: Twitter

I knew where the cops were evactuating homes at a moments notice because Twitter users would use their phones to tell the rest of Santa Barbara when they had to evac.

Also interesting to see Twitter users in Santa Barbara asking the founders of Twitter not to have a schedule maintainace for Twitter today. Goes to show you that Twitter is the communication life line in natuarl disasters.

Sending good karma to SB and hope rain comes soon. Keep up the great fight Brain and the rest of the central coast fire fighters.

"According to Network for Good’s data, 8,000 causes have actively raised money using Causes for a..."

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:58:00 -0400

“According to Network for Good’s data, 8,000 causes have actively raised money using Causes for a total of $7.5 million — or an average total of donations to each cause of over $930.”

- Allison Fine

Great job by CharityWater today and this past week, using photos...

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:04:00 -0400

Great job by CharityWater today and this past week, using photos from the ground in Ethiopia to make their message to Hugh Jackman more personal. I don’t think having more followers then the actor hurt either for volume messaging leverage ;)

Fresh Start

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:44:00 -0400

Funny how going to a conference forces you to dust off your projects/portfolio. I have needed to reinvent RyanQuiel.com since redesigning it to show my body of work close to 3 years and/or two jobs ago. I thought long and hard if I wanted to continue to use Wordpress, which I really like for my niche sites, but it comes down to, ‘Will I Continue To Update?’ The answer was no.

So, that is why I decided to use Tumblr, a simple to use CMS, that will increase my likelihood to frequently post on this site for months and years to come. I will try to keep my post related to social marketing and online giving for non-profits. I hope you will learn with me as I journey into the exciting possiblities of non-profits dominating online, were we are no longer two years behind corporations on the web, but years ahead of them in social marketing.

ROI for Facebook Causes. Is it all talk?

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:00:00 -0400

I got a questions at NTC09 on whether it would be wise to invest time and capital into Facebook Causes after the report in the Washtington Post. I gave the response as, YES, you need to be in this space to gain first mover advantage. That the checks from direct mail will continue to decline and email open rates decrease (5-10% in just the past few years).

That yes, each non-profit has raised only $900+ on average to date, but that trend is going up dramatically and it will soon be $9,000, then $90,000. It will be that much harder to make up the ground on FB Causes in a few years time, so act now!

What I also wanted to say, but held my tongue:

Last I checked Facebook Causes has a postive growth in subscribers, unlike most newspapers that are still in business.
That I highly doubt that the WPost has an active reader base of 56 million like Causes.
Lastly, please, believe what you hear, as it will be less competition for me if you stay out of this social giving niche and continue to give me more time to gain market share in your NGO vertical.