Periodically we here at TechSoup like to share what we're reading. The latest blog gem that I've added to my feed reader is Cause Global, a blog which covers social media for social change and the people involved in using technology tools to make the world a better place.

Creating Social Change is a project of Global Partnerships for Activism & cross-cultural Training. The purpose of this blog will be to share our knowledge, encounters and interests about the process of creating social change. Articles should be useful to the end user and assist them in learning more about running their own projects.

What can I do with Creating Social Change?

Lots of do-good bloggy "Days" coming up!

Blog Day
August 31st
A day for bloggers to recommend 5 new blogs to their readers,"preferably Blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude." For more info. go to www.blogday.org.

About two months ago, a small group of you participated in a short poll about the #1 reason you read the NetSquared Blog. Almost half of you said it was to read about, "Case Studies of Nonprofits Using the Social Web."

I'd love to hear more about the kind of information you are looking for.  Do you want . . .

Stories about how a social web tool was used as part of an organization's campaign?

Stories about how to convince reluctant team members to try social web tools?

Stories about how to use online tools to inspire offline action?

Stories about using the social web to build community?

It's been a little over 2 months since the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) where the 21 NetSquared Mashup Challenge Featured Projects presented their ideas.  The Conference may have ended, but their work has not. 

I've created a list below of the 21 Projects' web sites, blog feeds, Twitter feeds, news feeds and Facebook groups so that you can follow their work as it progresses. (Note: Many of the proejcts also have e-newletters or mailing lists that you can join through their sites).  If I've missed any feeds or sites, please let me know in the comments and I'll add them to the list.

If you are interested in helping a project out, you can contact them directly, or contact Billy Bicket at bbicket AT compumentor DOT org about joining the NetSquared Innovator Support Network.

A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms -- Social Actions
* Third Place Winner

Project site: http://mashup.socialactions.com/
Supporting org site: http://www.socialactions.com
Blog: http://blog.socialactions.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/socialactions
Social Actions on Facebook

Holly Ross, NTEN's Executive Director, posted a number of good nonprofit blogging tips in her piece yesterday, Blogs, Blogs, Everywhere, and Not a Thing to Write.

I though that her advice about how to find the time to blog was useful:

Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference.  At the beginning of the session, I asked folks what their burning questions were.  Below are their questions, and my quick answers.  What questions and answers would you add?

 1. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog?

Answer these questions:

1. What is the goal you want to achieve?
2. Who is your target audience?
3. What are the communication tools you could use to achieve that goal?

If a blog is one of the tools you think would meet your goal, ask yourself:

The NetSquared Community Blog has been running since September 2005! Seems like it's time to find out if it's meeting your needs, and if not, what kind of information you need.

If you could take a moment to vote for the #1 reason your read the NetSquared Community Blog, I'd really appreciate it. And of course, feel free to elaborate in the comments.

Thanks!

See our posts at http://blog.givvy.com

As of this writing, 33 NetSquared Mashup Challenge projects have been submitted, and that is due in part to the bloggers and Tweeters who have been helping to spread the word:

*Alan Gutierrez, @bigeasy
Annaliese Hoehling, NTEN
Amy Sample Ward, Amy Sample Ward's Version of NPTech and @amyrsward
A "San Francisco designer," unruly asides
Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog
*Billy Johnston, Bill Johnston: Online Community Strategy
Bob Carlton, The Corner
David Geilhufe, Social Source
Dayna Marcum, @daynamarcum
Drew Meyers, GeekEstate
Emily Weinberg, Nonprofit Blog Exchange
Ed Schipul, BrandToBeDetermined
Edward Vielmetti, Vacuum
*Eric Hersman, White African and @whiteafrican
Glenda Myles, Volunteers for Change
*Idealist.org
*Jake Brewer, Realist Idealist
JD Lasica, Socialmedia.biz
Jeffrey Barke, theMechanism
*John Musser, Programmable Web
Jonathan Tarr, HASTAC
*Jordan, Open Data Commons
*Juliana R, Afromusing and @afromusing
Justin Massa, MoveSmart.org
Kaitlin Thaney, Science Commons
John, Kelly Lab Blog
Laura Whitehead, Laura's Notebook
Mano Marks, Official Google Maps API Blog
*Marnie Webb, MobileActive.org
Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb
Michael Maranda, wrythings and @tropology
*Micki Krimmel, WorldChanging
*Micki Krimmel, Mickipedia
*MobileActive.org, @mobileactive
*Paul Canning, paulcanning
Nancy White, Full Circle Associates
Nate Ritter, Nate Ritter and @nateritter
*Rebecca Leaman, Wild Apricot and @rjleaman
Rich Reader, Wirikutero
Rik Panganiban/Rik Riel, The Click Heard Round the World and @rikomatic
Sean Stannard-Stockton, Tactical Philanthropy
*Seth Bindernagel, Seth's Blog: Blogging About Mozilla's Community Efforts
Shai Sachs, MyDD
Shai Sachs, Planting Liberally
*Virginia DeBolt, BlogHer

The * marks new posts since last week's round up.

If I missed you, post a link to your post or Twitter account in the comments.