Guest post by Katrina Heppler envisionGOOD.tv Last October, 630 people interested in advancing the social good through social entrepreurship flocked to San Francisco for the first Social Capital Markets conference (@socap09 on Twitter). envisionGood.tv caught up with Kevin Jones, co-founder of the conference (and @kevindoylejones on Twitter) at The Hub in Berkeley, Calif., to get […]
Events
United We Serve: Become an agent of change
Like millions of Americans, I’ve been looking for ways in which to get more involved in worthy community efforts. The traditional ways in which you can volunteer and gave back at the community — say, working in a soup kitchen or signing up for AmeriCorps — just expanded exponentially with the recent rollout of the […]
Socialbrite to appear at Net Tuesday
We’ve been big fans of NetSquared and its global series of Net Tuesday meetups for years — check out this map showing the dozens of cities with Net Tuesdays around the world. And our own Amy Sample Ward is NetSquared’s Global Community Builder and organizes the London Net Tuesday group (see her Socialbrite profile). So […]
Social Media Bootcamp at Seize the Moment
For the past few weeks, several of us (most notably Kara Andrade) have been working on pulling together what’s shaping up to be an extraordinary end-of-summer event at San Francisco State: Seize the Moment. I’ll be presenting a Social Media Bootcamp with David Cohn, founder of Spot.us, to kick the morning off on Aug. 28. […]
10 ways to support charity through social media
Guest post by Josh Catone Mashable This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. ______________________________________________ Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation […]











