Join the Net2 ThinkTank: How Can Nonprofits Use Flickr. Please respond by August 27, 2008.
NetSquared is an initiative of TechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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YourCause.com
Via Kristen Nicole's post, YourCause: Connect with Others to Make a Difference on Mashable:
Suggestion if you run a social network project
There are many people out there trying to create social networks around social change. I applaud this effort, but if you are one of them, I'd like to suggest that you do the following if you haven't already:
1. Write down what your project will provide that the "Facebook Causes" app doesn't.
2. Email Project Agape (which created the app) and ask whether they have any short-term plans to add the functionality under #1.
3. If you aren't going to provide something really, really, really big that Facebook Causes doesn't, consider moving on to another project.
iMentor - iPower eMentoring Platform
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
An online social network designed exclusively for non-profits, iPower allows any organization to add mentoring to what they do or to enhance their mentoring programs. Now in use with over 1,500 participants, iPower is preparing for national roll-out.
Board Collaboration for PAPIE
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Palo Alto Partners in Education http://pieboard.nexo.com Palo Alto |
Palo Alto Partners in Education (PAPIE) is a primarily board-driven organization with only 2 staff and a budget around $2+ million. We raise private funds to supplement public funds for all the public schools in our school district. Challenge: We needed a tool to ensure communicatio... |
Social Networking for Social Change: LinkedIn and WiserEarth on the Net2 Podcast
San Francisco's February Net Tuesday was packed. Oz Basarir talked about WiserEarth, a wiki/social network for environmental nonprofits, and Dave Sanford spoke about how LinkedIn, a professional social networking tool, can be used by nonprofits.
Our SF Net Tuesday podcaster, David Collin, posted his interviews with Dave and Oz, as well as recording's of Dave's presentation and Oz's presentation on the NetSquared Podcast. Enjoy!
An Encyclopedia of Net2 Resources on TechSoup
If you read this blog, you probably already know that NetSquared is a project of TechSoup, but in case you don't know, TechSoup has a separate web site from NetSquared, and over the last few months they have written a slew of awesome articles about how nonprofits and NGOs can use the social web for social change. They are all worth bookmarking so check 'em out:
Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 to Change the World by Marnie Webb
Seven Blogging Tools Reviewed via Idealware
How to Record, Edit and Promote Your Nonprofit's Podcast by Karen Solomon
Exploring the World of Wikis by Brian Satterfield
What Can Social Networking Do For Your Organization? by Brian Satterfield
Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging a compilation of two articles, one written by Alexandra Samuel an the other by Ruby Sinreich
RSS for Nonprofits by Marnie Webb
Mapping an End to Hunger in New York City by Brian Satterfield
Social Network for Socially Responsible Investing
economie, a London-based socially responsible investment firm has launched a social network at economie.sossoon.net to lead up to their eco6 conference in October. According to their press release, the network has all kinds of bells and whistles:
Are Online Social Networks Just A Fad?
Asks Andy Carvin in a recent blog entry that response to C|NET News article debating whethe ror not online social networks are just a trendy trend or here to stay. In contrast to the C|NET article that looks at it from the business perspective and suggests that the jury is still out, Andy reviews the history of online community building, from the earliest bulletin board systems to community networks to online social networks. Definitely worth a read!
Helpalot is the name, advice needed building test version decentralized charity site
In my last post I asked for your help picking the right name for my project. Thanks for all your feedback. Helpalot will be the name, it's short, easy to remember and is informative about the content of the site.
As a reminder a quick summary of the project; building a decentralized charity website with social network aspects.
Now I'm going towards building a first test version. I plan to build it in May, so I can start testing in June. I could use your advice on how to go about this. The way I see it now, I have three choices:
What should be the name? Poll: charityreactor, charimo, helpalot
On my project website, www.makingthesite.com, I've put up a poll where you can vote on what the name should be for the decentralized charity website I'm building.
- charityreactor.org
- charimo.org
- helpalot.org
If you don't know the project, here's a quick summary:
Taking inspiration from the openness of Wikipedia and adding social network aspects, I’m going to build a website that has the potential to be a chartiy guide, that not only contains every charity in the world, but also is the home of an energetic community that will change the world for the better.
