Dangling Feet, Kerala; Courtesy of Taylor Davidson on Flickr It’s shocking: The floods in Pakistan are affecting more than six times the number of people affected by the Haiti earthquake. I’ve been looking for ways to give back to help Pakistan. Where to give, where to donate, where to direct people. I came across a […]
Archives for August 2010
Top 10 mobile apps for college students
Evernote, Wikipanion & GoDocs should be in your arsenal Target audience: Students, educators, nonprofits, social change organizations, mobile diehards. By Jessica Haswell Socialbrite staff School just got easier with this collection of the top 10 apps that you can’t hit the classrooms without. Having recently left the classroom (Cornell 2010 — woot!), these are […]
Move the needle: How to activate your supporters
Move the Needle: How to activate your supporters View more presentations from JD Lasica. And download these 3 flyers on tools & platforms for social change Last night I gave another in the series of Mobilize Your Cause mini-camps at the Hub SoMa in San Francisco. It went well, with representatives from Women’s Film […]
Crowdsourcing conference coming to SF
Probably the most intriguing addition to the conference landscape is the upcoming inaugural CrowdConf, the first conference that focuses on the emerging field of crowdsourcing and the future of distributed work. Researchers, technologists, outsourcing experts, legal scholars and artists will gather Oct. 4 in San Francisco to discuss how crowdsourcing is beginning to transform the […]
How will your nonprofit use Facebook Places?
If you haven’t heard already, Facebook has launched a location-based “check in” app similar to FourSquare. It’s called “Places” , and as you’ll see in the video above, Facebook seeks to encourage serendipitous meetings between Facebook friends at the places they hang out. How can my nonprofit use Places? Places is a location-based check-in app […]