Last month, when Socialbrite launched, we announced that our developer — Buenos Aires tech guru Esteban Glas — had crafted a Creative Commons plug-in that woud allow users of WordPress blogs to use different CC licenses for each post on the site. On Wednesday Esteban released WP-License Plugin Reloaded to the WordPress community, and already […]
How Convio uses social media
How Convio uses social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. The name Convio is a well-known brand in the nonprofit sector. The company offers online fundraising and marketing software and donor database and CMS solutions to its more than 1,200 nonprofit clients, ranging from a seven-person nonprofit with remote staff to large institutions like the […]
NPtech + causes + open source + social media
As part of our silo-busting effort at Socialbrite, we’ll be showcasing cool technologies that haven’t received enough attention in the nonprofit and social change worlds. So here’s a one-minute video, announcing the launch of Socialbrite, that I created last night on Animoto: Introducing Socialbrite.org. Nonprofit tech + Causes + Open source + Social media. We’re […]
Socialbrite releases Creative Commons plug-in
We’re happy to launch today with the news that our lead developer, Esteban Panzeri (above), is releasing a new WordPress plug-in to the WordPress community. It’s called Creative Commons Reloaded, and it lets individual blogs or group blogs assign Creative Commons licenses on a post-by-post basis. That’s especially useful at sites like Socialbrite, where some […]
Introducing Socialbrite: Why we’re here
Socialbrite.org fills a glaring gap in the social media world. While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. The young […]