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Events guide for nonprofits & social change outfits Following is a roundup of conferences and events scheduled in the nonprofit and social change sector for the month of April. For the full year, see: Calendar of 2010 social change conferences. If you’re interested in social media, tech and marketing conferences, see the April calendar on […]
Twestival 2010’s worthy cause: Concern Worldwide
I‘ll be attending the third Twestival on Thursday evening in San Francisco, one of 175 cities holding fundraising events — see the TwestivalSF page. As with the original Twestival 13 months ago, which raised $250,000 for charity:water (here’s our interview with Twestival founder Amanda Rose and my photo of Amanda below right), and Twestival Local […]
Nonprofit highlights and photos of SXSW
CauseLab, Good Guide, Ushahidi lead impressive array of social change efforts I‘ve learned long ago the challenge of covering South by Southwest Interactive, which hums along at its own idiosyncratic pace compared to more linear conferences. Thus, I spent last year and this year doing less blogging, conducting more interviews (which I’ll roll out in […]
‘The Cove’: Will movies usher in a new era of social change?
Moving movie audiences to take action from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘ll confess: I was excited to see The Cove take home the Academy Award for best feature documentary last night. While all the entrants were worthy, “The Cove” is among the handful of movies pushing the idea of Hollywood productions as the fulcrum for […]
10 essential WordPress plug-ins
Add-ons to make your blog more powerful & versatile Last week I attended a WordPress East Bay meetup in Oakland led by Podcast Asylum trainer Sallie Goetsch (at left in picture above). I’ve been an avid user of, and proponent of, WordPress since I began using the open source platform for all my blogs (Socialmedia.biz, […]
