Join us for the San Francisco Net Tuesday on September 9:
Involver: How Nonprofits Can Create Video Campaigns for Social Networks.
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Thank you for Opening the Door!
Here at Green Map System, we're tickled pink to be among the 21 featured projects for N2Y3! Thanks much to all who voted for us and are already connecting to share ideas, resources and advice! This project is getting better, day by day, with your involvement.
Our work on this project really began in Fall 2007. Among other things, we floated a few different names out to the Green Map network. Open Green Map was their top choice, but we decided to test out a few other options, including My Green Map, as working names. As we used the different names, we watched the reactions.
How will your non-profit organization avoid the “Meatball Sundae”?
Are your community’s articles, blogs, and discussions left shivering in a dark and quiet echo chamber? Do relevant reach, attraction, engagement, interactivity, and participation elude your organization’s site?
Today, January 23rd, 2008, Seth Godin (Search Engine Strategies, Search Engine Watch, Clickz Network, & BuzzLogic) webcast the core message from his new book, “Meatball Sundae”. This haunting & timely theme speaks to a challenge which many of us in non-profit organizations and non-governmental entities struggle with: how (& where) do we better communicate with those whom we serve as well as those on whom we depend, and through doing so, provide a better service?
A Citizen Meeting for Justice with Local Faith Communities. R.S.V.P.
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Congregation-Based Community Organizations create public meetings to leverage social change. To win hard issues grassroots leaders must engage more people to build larger events.
Local Issues Forums - E-Democracy.Org's Online Townhalls in US, UK, and now NZ
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
The online townhall made real where citizens have a say and make a difference locally.
Common Problems -- Common Solutions
Common Project Visions:
Collaboratively identify common problems and common solutions
A number of project proposals share a common vision: creating a space where our respective constituencies can share common problems and collaboratively identify common solutions.
I also see that our projects share a common problem = Engaging user participation!
I bet we can help each other overcome our common obstacles to fulfilling our common vision.
Common Project Obstacle:
Requests for Help from Your Fellow NetSquared Members
We've had a couple of posts recently from folks asking the NetSquared community for help that I wanted to point to.
In answer to the first of our Four Questions, "What's * Really * New on the Web?", Paul Lamb of the Nonprofits of the Future blog wants your opinion about what a technologically empowered nonprofit will look like 5-10 years down the road. You can get more information and post comments on his blog, or email him at pauljlamb@gmail.com.
Last night on the community blog, Julius Huijnk, a 4th year student in the EMMA program at the HKU in the Netherlands, wrote a post asking for feedback and help building a decentralized charity web site. You can get more information at his blog, Making The Site.
