I‘ve been impressed every time I’ve stopped by VolunteerSpot, a tool that makes it easy for anyone to coordinate and organize volunteers. At BlogWorld Expo, I got to chat with founder Karen Bantuveris shortly after she appeared on a panel about fueling real world action through social media. “Just by making it easier to volunteer,” […]
Archives for December 2010
How to measure Facebook Page fan growth and engagement
Facebook Insights lets you view metrics on fan growth, fan demographics, and how those fans engage with your Page. This is your No. 1 tool to get the most bang from your efforts on Facebook. Questions you can answer with Facebook Insights: How fast is my fan base growing? Where and when are the growth […]
Apple shows it’s a poor corporate citizen
Petition challenges company’s nonprofit-unfriendly policy Guest post by Beth Kanter bethkanter.org In June I wrote about how unfriendly Apple’s iPhone donation app policy was when I came across this editorial by Jake Shapiro, the CEO of PRX, (the company behind the popular This American Life iPhone and Public Radio Player apps), arguing that Apple’s […]
Use video to get to heart of your organization’s story
Storytellers for Good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. A chat with the founder of Storytellers for Good Of all the people I’ve met this year, probably the most fascinating encounter I’ve had was the few minutes I spent with Cara Jones, founder of Storytellers for Good (tagline: “Promoting goodness, inspiring greatness”). A former broadcast […]
Jumo holds promise for social good sector
Note from Beth Kanter: Jumo, the long anticipated social network site for social change, launched this week. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 […]