Archive for September 2010
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The Dragonfly Effect: Win A Copy, Leave A Comment, Swab Your Cheek
On Sunday, I attended the book launch for the Dragonfly Effect, a book about quick, powerful ways to use social media for social change by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith. This book party was different, not because it had kids activities or the fun photo booth (see above), but because it also had a table [...]
Building an Online Community for People Living with Paralysis
I recently connected with Rob Gerth, the Director of Digital Media at the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. After learning that the Foundation was using Blackbaud Social to power their community, I became interested in learning more about the Foundation’s efforts as well as the techniques and technology behind its growing online presence.
Last Chance: Submit your ideas for collaborative technologies!
Whether you are a technologist or a changemaker, an entrepreneur or innovator - from any country around the world - we’re looking for your ideas! Social justice covers all sorts of issues, like human rights, equality, and livability; and we see web and mobile-based collaborative technologies offering tremendous opportunity to support social justice work. This is the last week to submit a Project idea to the FACT Social Justice Challenge - winners receive cash and support to build their tools!
COP10/MOP5 info from Japan
i just have written down COP10 related URLs from citizens/NPO/NGO point of views.
http://nonprofitmedia.jp/2010/cop10-media-and-ngonpocitizen/
Vote for the Best in Nonprofit Taglines – The Taggies
Place your vote today for the 2010 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards!
The 70 tagline finalists have been culled from over 2,700 entries in 13 vertical sectors. These orgs have done a fantastic job in putting well-selected words to build their brands. Now it’s your turn to select the best. Through voting, you’ll get a stronger sense of what makes messaging work and learn to assess your organization’s taglines.
In Search of Bachelors and Philanthropy in Rural Alaska and Video Story Capture Tips
The Story
Last week, my adventure in Alaska started with a meeting with representatives from community foundations around the state of Alaska hosted by the Alaska Community Foundation. That’s where I met Joe Page from the Jessica Stevens Foundation who told me the amazing story about the Talkeetna Bachelor Society.
The Talkeetna Bachelor Society is a program of the Denali [...]
Vote for Your Favorite Nonprofit Technology Conference Panels
The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference will take place on March 17-19, 2011 in Washington, DC. Part of what makes the NTC unique is how they involve the community in every aspect of conference planning. Community voting on the 400+ session proposals has begun and will run through September 30th.
So, I spent some time reading through [...]
The Ladder of Love: Growing Facebook Fans
I was lucky enough to spend my last afternoon in Alaska driving to Talkeetna with Aliza Sherman who lives in Alaska who I’ve known since 1995 and with Cassandra Stalzer my host! I love the framework she created for identifying and cultivating Super Fans on Facebook. I like to call it the ladder of love!
The very first [...]
