Sizing up your options & strategies for being effective with your online petition drive Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, foundations, businesses, individuals. This is part of Creating Media, our ongoing series designed to help nonprofits and other organizations learn how to use and make media. By Julie Katz Socialbrite staff Political and […]
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Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp coming up Aug. 14
Randi Zuckerberg and Eugenie Harvey at last summer’s Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp. Guest post by Beth Kanter Zoetica It has been a year since I’ve relocated to the Bay Area in California. The summers here are much less humid than on the East Coast, but the real treat is having the Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp practically in my […]
10 tips for writing an impactful blog post
Starting a blog for your nonprofit or organization and don’t know where to start? Write what you know — and what you care deeply about. Over time, you’ll develop your own style. As you do, follow some of the best practices that journalists and writers have long employed.
12 open source tools you should be using
We liked this 3-minute intro to Songbird, Firefox, Audacity, OpenOffice, Gaim, Gimp, Inkscape and Ubuntu. Programs powered by coders’ collective brainpower & generosity Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, foundations, businesses, individuals. This is part of Creating Media, our ongoing series designed to help nonprofits and other organizations learn how to use and make […]
Tiny Buddha: Simple wisdom for complex lives
Tiny Buddha: Simple wisdom for complex lives from JD Lasica on Vimeo. We live in fast times, and what we gain in gadget-obsessed, always-on hyperconnectivity we often lose in life balance and meaningfulness. Lori Deschene, founder of Tiny Buddha, gave a keynote at the Wisdom 2.0 conference in Mountain View, Calif., not long ago to […]











