Mashable & our favorite posts of the year

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Welcome to all the visitors from Mashable! We were thrilled to be featured in Melissa Rowley‘s article, 4 Social Good Trends of 2009.

For first-timers, we thought now would be a good time to highlight some of our favorite posts on Socialbrite since our launch earlier this year:

Some of our favorite causes

• Tweet for a cure to end SMA

• Global Voices: Lifting up the powerless & voiceless

• An inventive cause campaign to fight malaria

• Tim Ferriss’ method of supporting causes

• Boxee and the promise of open media

• All for Good: A Craigslist for service

• California’s Secretary of State: Come and collaborate!

• How the National Wildlife Federation uses social media

• Socialbrite’s night at NetTuesday

• UniversalGiving: Tailoring an impact just for you

• Samasource enables socially responsible outsourcing

• YouthNoise: Helping young people network a cause

• Kiva: micro-loans to entrepreneurs abroad

• Giving Challenge: Tap your networks to support a cause

Some favorite tools and tactics

• How to make your website more accessible and 7 tips for communicating with people with disabilities

• 20 tips for mobile advocacy

• A user’s guide to mobile activism

• How mobile is empowering consumers

• SEO: 9 tips for optimizing a nonprofit site — Search Engine Optimization isn’t black magic, so get your site to shape up

• 8 tips for raising funds online

• The Extraordinaries: Building the ‘micro-volunteering’ movement

• Twitter as a tool for activism

• How to build a Facebook community — 14 levers you need to be pulling

• How to add a Facebook Page Fanbox to your site

• How to use Seesmic Desktop

• Carbon footprints, nation by nation

• Foundation Center: a deep resource for philanthropy

• Guide to shooting photos in public

• How to capture great photos on the road

• Fair use in the digital age

• Seven blogging tools reviewed

• Socialbrite releases Creative Commons plug-in

Thanks to everyone for your support this year! (Don’t forget to follow @Socialbrite on Twitter!) We’re now working with a number of nonprofits and educational outfits — TechSoup Global and Scholastic, to name two — and looking forward to helping others with their social media needs in the months ahead. JD Lasica works with nonprofits, social change organizations and businesses on social media strategies. See his profile, visit his business blog, contact JD or follow him on Twitter or Google Plus.