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Mapping your organization’s social media strategy

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I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics.  Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog.  Can’t wait! The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself.  So, I’m […]

Buy on eBay to help your favorite cause

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eBay Giving Works from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the first Awareness2Action gathering in San Francisco in August 2008 I heard about eBay’s Giving Works program, which has raised $150 million for charitable causes on eBay over its first five years. These folks rock! I swung down to eBay headquarters in San Jose a few […]

Advancing social causes on campus

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Aden Van Noppen of Brown University discusses a youth initiative and campus engagement strategy, supported by the Acumen Fund, to involve college students in social causes. The initiative is focused on how finance and business can be used as a tool for social impact in fighting poverty and advancing other social causes — and making […]

Kiva: micro-loans to entrepreneurs abroad

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Kiva from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 4 1/2-minute interview with Premal Shah, president of the nonprofit microfinance lender Kiva.org, conducted at the Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp in San Mateo, Calif. The next Bay Area Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp will be held June 20 in Berkeley. Register now — it’s always an inspiring gathering. In our […]

Witness puts tools for empowerment online

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This post originally appeared Jan. 31, 2006, at Socialmedia.biz: Over the past couple of months, I’ve been having discussions with the good folks at Witness.org about how Witness and Ourmedia could work together. Witness has announced an ambitious plan to build a set of publishing tools that would let those in repressive or abusive conditions […]