In light of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, free agent communities have risen once again, this time to raise funds for disaster relief in Japan. In this blog post, I feature three blogger communities raising money for Japan. Once again, this begs the question of best practices and whether or not nonprofits are working with free agent communities to establish relationships.

Developing social media in a vacuum is unnecessary. Why not develop a social media support team? Using personal contacts and social networks, one can easily develop a great team to help you develop and improve upon social media concepts.

This guest blog post continues the discussion of nonprofit collaboration, but from the funder's perspective. Guest contributor Ed Nicholson, who manages corporate philanthropy for Tyson Foods, offers his perspective on why collaboration and coopetition is good for the cause and the funder.

Looking forward to 2010, with professional goals in mind: more blogging, starting a social media learning circle, and meeting more of my online friends offline. What are the new platforms to try? This post looks back at 2009, forward to 2010, and asks your opinions as well.