Shawn Ahmed, Free Agent and founder of the Uncultured Project,  has been invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will meet with business leaders and heads of state.    This year, Shawn's video was selected from over 100 covering a wide range of topics and debates, to participate in the meetings.   A big congrats to Shawn! He will talk about his work -- and the whole notion of free agents working with NGOs as highlighted in our book, The Networked Nonprofit. Shawn has … [Read more...]

Note from Beth: Last Spring,  Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America's Giving Challenge 2009.  One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field.   We experimented with "Conversational Case Studies" and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. That model uses social media a mechanism to give … [Read more...]

Note from Beth: We featured Momsrising in our book, The Networked Nonprofit, as an example of a nonprofit that was born as a Networked Nonprofit.   They are experts in using  social media as part of their multi-channel advocacy campaigns.   They are also experts in repurposing content for different channels.  If you're grappling with a content strategy, take a look at what they do.  You'll learn lots.  They are also experts in reflecting and learning about what works and what doesn't with social … [Read more...]

(Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post.  Thanks Geoff! ) Over the holidays,  I finally visited Quora, a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee.   Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Answers.  It does heavily rely on Twitter and Facebook for promotion, adding it to the increasing amount of social middleware … [Read more...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010.   The topic we explored was mobile fundraising, ranging from best practices, integration and why applications on phones haven't taken off.   I'm in learning mode, so this post is a quick summary of insights, questions, and resources.   I'm also in a steep learning curve with my two new mobile phones - the Windows 7 phone from Microsoft and Nexus S Android from Google. Planning for Integration … [Read more...]