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Is your organization leveraging the power of the crowd? Last month I presented at the UK’s National Council for Voluntary Organisations’ Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity, with a focus on the future of online revenue generation for nonprofit organizations. What’s most interesting to me within the nonprofits-in-social-space is […]
Nonprofits
Information into action: Africa and beyond
Two organisations I’ve had the pleasure of working with – Tactical Tech and Fahamu – have independently announced the release of a film and a book that cover different aspects of non-profit digital activism. Both are well worth a look. Info-activism.org, a Tactical Tech initiative, explores how rights advocates “use information and digital technology to […]
Mashable & our favorite posts of the year
Welcome to all the visitors from Mashable! We were thrilled to be featured in Melissa Rowley‘s article, 4 Social Good Trends of 2009. For first-timers, we thought now would be a good time to highlight some of our favorite posts on Socialbrite since our launch earlier this year: Some of our favorite causes • Tweet […]
How Google’s real-time search impacts your nonprofit
During the Philanthropy.com chat earlier this week on using Twitter for building community, Tim Hite asked, “This week Google will start searching Twitter for real-time search results. How will that impact the way nonprofits should use Twitter?” For those who don’t know, the live search means when you now search Google, you’ll see scrolling updates from […]
The most powerful social media tool out there. Period!
At Community Organizer 2.0, Debra Askanase just wrote a piece called Front and Backyard Conversations. In it, she talks about social media as a public platform –- a front porch, but also a private platform where “conversations continue, out of the public eye.” Front yard conversations are replies on Twitter, videos posted to YouTube, photos […]
