January 2012
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Let’s keep the #socialchange movement rolling! Support #nonprofits & #media with a tax-deduct donation to Channel G http://t.co/DsqAeHan
December 2011
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Submission extended for the Intern’l Water & Film Events! 5 Categories Including ones for Youth! http://t.co/B8GQfYoe #water #film #contest
Simple advice from @WaterAidAmerica If it’s broke, create sustainable methods to fix it! http://t.co/TGuG7doh #water #nytimes #india
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If it's broke...FIX IT!
The incredible work of WaterAid was recognized in a NYTimes opinion piece yesterday, part of the rad NYTimes Fixes series, which explores creative solutions to the world’s social problems. Yay, solutions!
According to research cited in the article, there are pumps and wells in many poor communities around the world, including India and Africa, but the pumps have fallen into disrepair and...
The cream of the cream- Forbes Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs http://t.co/b902TVfu #socent #biz #socialchange
November 2011
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“Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.”
John F. Kennedy
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11 Key Takeaways from the Global Water Crisis...
Great article by Neetal Parekh, J.D. of Innov8Social who attended our Global Water Crisis Symposium on November 5, 2011. The rest of Parekh’s blog is pretty rad too.
11 Key Takeaways from the Global Water Crisis Symposium
by. Innova8Social
On a rainy Saturday afternoon in early November 2011, an eclectic group of individuals and institutions committed to supporting and exploring social...
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Children & Nature Network as Panelist!
This Nov 5th at The Global Water Crisis Symposium, Avery Clearly from the Children & Nature Network is joining a panel on youth engagement & environmentalism.
Don’t miss this chance to learn and create new ways to inspire our youngest and most important environmentalists!
We will also be featuring a youth filmmaking workshop that will run parallel to the symposium.
The symposium...
On #Nov5 Global Action Day please join us in Silicon Valley for The Global #Water Crisis Symposium & Reception! http://t.co/tzSBgJ6o #socent
October 2011
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50 Fellowships for Social Innovators (including... →
EnviroKidz @NaturesPath is offering $20K in grants to local non-profits doing good! http://t.co/VftxLJPH #socent #organic #nonprofits
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September 2011
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Why #OccupyWallStreet is more than a hashtag- Its... →
Pretty much a MUST READ for anyone remotely interested in the power of media & its relationship with social movements.
6 Ways To Earn More Exposure on Tumblr →
Some words to blog by.
This quick slide from Mashable provides six interesting/creative/useful tips for better Tumblr blogging.
5 Content Lessons for Non-Profits on Tumblr →
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Get New Book Twitter for Good FREE for 24 hours
Yep. That about sums it up.
From 12am Tuesday Sept 6 to 12am Wednesday Sept 7 you can get Claire Diaz Ortiz’s new book “Twitter for Good” for free!
Ortiz’s book examines organizations, nonprofits, and companies that are using Twitter in innovative ways to connect communities, organize campaigns, and change the world!
Go to Barnes and Noble and Amazon to get your free...
August 2011
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Citizen Media Competition- 19 Days Left!
Have a brilliant idea about how to democratize the global media landscape by boosting citizen participation in media production or increasing media access?
Then submit your idea to Changemakers’s Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Challenge!
The FOUR best solutions will not only get to see their innovative ideas gain currency, but they will also be awarded $5,000! Other great ideas will be...
SF BART caused a stir when it decided to censor cell service for political purposes. Is pol #censorship ever OK? http://t.co/cnmxzmo
One, two, all eyes on YOU! Help Your Org Focus on...
In an insightful new article “Me Marketing vs. You Marketing” Chris Forbes explains that organizations should focus more on the readers and less on the organization.
According to Forbes, organizations, especially nonprofits, focus to much on themselves. Their webpages, communications, and marketing materials sound like “me, me, me!!!” Thinking about our own...
July 2011
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RT @GOOD: 96% of Italians just voted to keep their water supply public. Here’s how Americans can do the same http://su.pr/2X1ngc
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Free Social Media Webinar for NonProfits! →
This free webinar is being offered August 4th as part of promotion for the new book Social Media for Social Good.
From the Social Media for Social Good website:
Based upon the soon-to-be-released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits, this webinar begins with defining Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 communications and fundraising, and then quickly moves on to a...
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No Wonder We "LUV" Southwest: Win 40 Free Flights!
Sorry for the 11th hour post, but today (July 14) is the last day for Southwest Airline’s Showing LUV to our Communities for 40 Years Contest.
The contest will reward 40 deserving nonprofits with 40 roundtrip tickets! The nonprofits considered will be working on community initiatives that concentrate on education, diversity, military, environment, or families facing serious illness.
To...
Announcing Social Good Summit 2011 [VIDEO &... →
There is also an option to register for a FREE live stream of the conference. I just registered!!
Mashable, 92Y and the UN Foundation are thrilled to announce that the second annual Social Good Summit will take place September 19-22 at 92Y in New York City. Held during UN Week, the Social Good Summit is where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions. Last year’s...
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Hashtags, Tweets, & Trends, OH MY!
Wanna know how to make those tweets twice as sweet?
Or wanna know #whatisahashtag?
Today is your lucky day!
Fenton Communications just realized a new FREE e-book on professional and organizational tweeting, Short & Sweet.
For those of you that don’t know, Fenton Communications is leader in providing innovative public relations services for progressive non-profits (hooray!).
The...
RT @risingvoices: RT @Rosental: Applications now being accepted for @utknightcenter’s new Social Media for Journalists online course htt …
June 2011
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Play a video game, Plant a real forest.
Ecotopia’s “Plant a Real Forest Challenge” encourages fans of the social media game to plant 25,000 in-games tress in 25 days or less. If the challenge is met, Talkie (the makers of Ecotopia) vows to plant 25,000 real tress, potentially removing 1,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere!
If you aren’t familiar with Ecotopia, it is an eco-friendly heroes-versus-villains...
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Get a Grip: Managing & Measuring Social Media
The proliferation of social media platforms and applications can make it difficult for resource-stretched nonprofits to get a grip on their social media plan.
To make the entire venture more manageable, Fauzia Burke from FSB, a publicity and marketing firm, shares 12 applications she uses for managing and measuring social media campaigns for companies.
Many of the applications are very simple to...
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An Essential Friend for Facebook Nonprofits
Now that the latest Facebook privacy scandal has been quelled (for now…) we can all feel warm & fuzzy about Facebook again right?!!!
Probably not, but for what it’s worth, here is a GREAT resource for all you Facebook page admins out there. I present to you The Nonprofit Facebook Guy (complete with nondescript white guy avatar):
His website actually looks like a Facebook page,...
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Are you engaging your audience?
The University of Missouri’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute just released a downloadable report that will help your newsroom do just that!
Regardless if you are operating a blog or a international news outlet, “The Engagement Metrics” report gives insight about what we need to be analyzing and how we can do it.
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Hack for Change: 24-hr app for social change... →
Hack for Change=Totally awesome. Is anyone thinking about entering or submitting an idea to Hack for Change? If so, keep us posted!
“Through technology we have the potential to democratize politics, to hold power accountable, and to find innovative solutions to the world’s problems.
So, we’re inviting 50 engineers and designers who believe they can make the world a better place to spend...
May 2011
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We are not alone!!! A look at nonprofit newspapers... →
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Build your movement: 5 Nonprofits on Mobile...
Have you been thinking about taking your nonprofit mobile? Read how other nonprofits are innovating with mobile in a recent Mashable article.
The nonprofits are using mobile to engage youth on climate change, educate about sex and sexual health, fight for teachers and education, raise awareness about birds in NYC, and help support sea lion rescue and rehabilitation (who doesn’t love sea...
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Facebook's New Nonprofit Resource!!
Whether you have been putting off starting a Facebook page for your social change project or nonprofit or looking for ways to really maximize Facebook’s social networking power- the new Non-Profits on Facebook resource is for you!!!
The resource offers in-depth guides on pages, content tips, and network strategies. It also spotlights effective nonprofit organization pages and showcases...
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High-School Student Starts Social Good Social...
Tonight in San Francisco students will launch the nonprofit iCAREweCare, started by 17yr old Priyanka Jain!!! How incredible is that???
iCAREweCARE is a social network that will connect youth with local volunteer opportunities and create a space for discussion about global issues. What a creative way to bridge the local and the global! Youth will also have a chance to share their volunteer...
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OMG!!! Be careful what you tweet for!
Reel Grrls, a nonprofit empowering you women to realize their potential through media production, got in some hot water with Comcast, one of their sponsors, when they tweeted:
“OMG! @FCC Commissioner Baker voted 2 approve Comcast/NBC merger & is now lving FCC for A JOB AT COMCAST?!? http://su.pr/1trT4z #mediajustice”
Comcast revoked $18,000 it had pledged for a Reel Grrls teen summer camp...
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The Key to Positive Change!
Well, one of the keys at least…
The NYT Blog features Rye Barcott, co-founded of Carolina For Kibera, on what he believes is the key to creating a successful social change project!!!
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/when-it-comes-to-helping-others-just-do-it/
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Nonprofits: Need a New (FREE) Website?
Open Media Foundation and Q Digital Studio are hosting Project Kicks in Denver, a program that brings together web professionals and nonprofits in need of need new websites…all in ONE day!
Selected nonprofits will get a chance to work with web professionals to develop a website that enhances their social justice goals and helps increase community involvement. Web professionals will get the...
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Bloggers Beware!
New search features on Google News allow users to block blogs from their search. The problem then becomes how Google defines news versus blogs. And why?
In our rapidly changing media environment, where the traditional news media are not only entering the blogging scene themselves, but are directly competing with “blogs” that possess all bells and whistles plus more of traditional...
Award-winning NYT Journalist Creating Social... →
Nicholas Kristof, award-winning journalist and author, is creating a game with Games for Change based off the book “Half the Sky” he co-authored with his wife Sheryl WuDunn. According to the book’s website, “Half the Sky lays out an agenda for the world’s women and three major abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution; gender-based violence including honor...
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WatchSHAME on FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker for her recent announcement that she will be leaving the FCC to become a lobbyist for Comcast-NBC Universal just four months after she voted to approve the merger.
Criticizing Baker’s actions, Craig Aaron, Free Press President and CEO, stated, “No wonder the public is so nauseated by business as usual in Washington — where...
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Punked!! Peabody launches "Coal Cares" campaign...
The Yes Men strike again! Up to their old antics, the Yes Men recently launched a mock campaign for Peabody Coal called “Coal Cares.” The campaign purports to provide free “Puff-Puff inhalers” for kids with asthma who live within 200 miles of coal plants. The site also promises a $10 coupon for asthma medication.
The website provides satirical pro-coal kid activities and...
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UK's Big Venture Challenge
Awesome opportunity!!! Makes me wish I was in the UK :)
Here are the deets:
Big Venture Challenge is a national competition to find the 25 most ambitious social entrepreneurs in England.
Winners of Big Venture Challenge will get an initial £25K grant and the chance to access up to £150K of seed funding if matched by loans or equity from co-investors, plus first class business support and ...
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Building sustainable projects helping the world...
If so, check out Fondation Ensemble’s prizes! There are three categories depending on your project. Fondation is looking to reward projects already underway or completed. Good luck!
http://www.fondationensemble.org/aactu_ensinnov.php
So...you wanna be a social entrepreneur?
Wanna help the world but don’t know how to get your idea off the ground??? Do our friends over at Dowser ever have the series for you!
Follow them as the follow a social entrepreneur living the dream:
http://dowser.org/how-to-get-a-social-enterprise-off-the-ground-making-an-idea-for-social-change-become-a-reality/
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Didn't make the invite only list?
You can still tune in!!
Tune in here for the TEDx Silicon Valley from Stanford University LIVE VIDEO STREAM:
http://www.tedxsv.org/?page_id=98
When: Saturday May 14th at 10:00am-6pm PST
What:
“We’ll discuss new things people can measure and never thought could be measured. We’ll talk about the power of crowd sourcing and the collective power of small coordinated actions....
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Woa! Snapshot of our social media world.
While this cool graphic makes it look like we have tons of diversity in the digital sphere, media & democracy activists at the National Conference for Media Reform argued that corporate control is starting to tighten its stranglehold on the web.
We need an ownership “map” for the internet! Anyone know of a nifty resource like the Free Press chart on media ownership?
ENTER TODAY!!! 5 Winners will receive $50,000 from... →
Competition News
eBay Foundation and Ashoka’s Changemakers are looking for the most innovative market-based solutions that create economic opportunity and generate employment for disadvantaged populations.
Submit your solutions, or nominate a project, to create tomorrow’s job markets today. Submit your entry by the early entry deadline, 5PM EST, May 11, 2011, and be eligible to win one of three...
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NEA Grants for Media Projects!
Do you have a project you wanna start in 2012? Need a grant to get started???
Check out this great opportunity from NEA! Digital media projects are included
http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/AIM-presentation.html
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Activists listen up!
Great resource for those looking to get involved in social change!
A Beginners Guide to Social Change
http://socialcreatives.org/2011/04/im-inspired-now-what/