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At BlogWorld Expo, tools and strategies for nonprofits The first Causes/Activism track at the just-ended Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas drew some 1,500 participants — a promising showing by the nonprofit community. I moderated the Tools for Nonprofit Organizations panel, with panelists Judy Chang of Paypal, Justin Perkins of Care2, David Levy of SocialVibe, James […]
Fixing unbalanced sound levels in your podcast
Many podcasts suffer from unbalanced audio — say, during an interview where one person sounds louder than the other. Podcast pioneer Doug Kaye of The Conversations Network has released a free program that solves some, though not all, of these shortcomings. The Levelator is downloadable software that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or […]
Bloggers: Please come through again for DonorsChoose
Social Media Challenge is a leading example of micro-giving When you think of organizations and nonprofits that have made effective use of Web 2.0 technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. And October is once again the month when bloggers step up to the […]
Blogworld Expo’s Cause/Activism track
I‘m flying to Las Vegas early Thursday to moderate a panel on social media tools for nonprofits at Blogworld Expo. I know a lot of the keynoters: Laura Fitton, Chris Brogan, Jeremiah Owyang, Brian Solis, Kara Swisher, Scott Monty, Jay Rosen, Leo Laporte, Guy Kawasaki — the list goes on. This is the first year […]
Cause marketing with celebrities, social media
Marketing for charitable causes from JD Lasica on Vimeo. The smartest guy I know in the cause marketing space is Chris Noble, CEO of 8-year-old Kompolt. With the help of a grant from eBay, Chris’s team at Kompolt is organizing the nonprofit track Thursday at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas. Some $6 billion was raised […]
