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We’ve assembled the following directory of resources for change-makers, nonprofits, activists, social entrepreneurs and political reformers looking to mobilize your cause. Contact us for information about holding a Mobilize Your Cause bootcamp in your town or for your organization.
Want an easy way to remember this page? It’s at: http://bit.ly/mobilize
Note: Scroll down to Social bookmarks for a link to see all the sites and tools included in the following presentations.
Mobilizing your social network at BlogWorld Expo
• Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted: provocative but flawed article by Malcolm Gladwell (New Yorker)
Panelists:
• Andres Glusman, Vice President Strategy & Community, Meetup.com
• Giselle Diaz Campagna, Development Director, Free Speech TV
• Justin Perkins, Director of Nonprofit Strategy, Care2
• George Weiner, CTO, Do Something
Presentations
• Socialbrite.org and tools you can use (Short presentation at BlogWorld Expo by JD Lasica on Oct. 16, 2010, embedded above)
• Socialbrite.org and tools you can use (Presentation at SF State University LearningLAB by JD Lasica on Oct. 1, 2010)
• Move the Needle: How to activate your supporters (Presentation at The Hub SoMa by JD Lasica on Slideshare, August 2010, embedded)
• Mobilize Your Cause: 12 steps to a successful cause campaign (Presentation given at Personal Democracy Forum by JD Lasica, June 2010, shared on Slideshare)
• Mobilize your cause: Tools and Building a Program (Presentation given at Personal Democracy Forum by JD Lasica, June 2010, shared on Slideshare)
• The Art of Storytelling for Social Entrepreneurs (Presentation given at LaunchFest by Sloane Berrent, May 2010, shared on Slideshare)
Social bookmarks
• All the sites & resources mentioned in the above presentations are bookmarked on Delicious at: http://delicious.com/socialmediacamp/mobilize
Handouts
The following handouts are released under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license — you’re free to republish, remix or redistribute them.
• 12 steps to mobilize your cause (download PDF; bit.ly/12steps-flyer)
• 40 hashtags for social good (download PDF; bit.ly/40hashtags)
• 12 social action hubs for nonprofits & social change organizations (download PDF; bit.ly/12socialhubs)
• 6 Twitter tips for nonprofits (download PDF)
• How to set up a monitoring dashboard (download PDF)
• Best practices for the Social Web (download PDF)
• 10 mobile apps for social good (download PDF; article)
• A Mobile Activism User’s Guide (16 pages, Word doc, download Word doc, 16 pages )
See descriptions on our Handouts page.
Articles, tutorials, resources on Socialbrite
• 24 tools for fundraising with social media
• A step-by-step guide to creating a media strategy
• Social media 101 for small nonprofits
• Check out the resources on the Socialbrite Sharing Center
• An amazing collection of free tutorials about how to optimize Facebook, Twitter, your blogs and more. Also see our Videos & Tutorials page.
• See the Social Good Lists listing in the right sidebar, including 10 ways geolocation is changing the world, 12 open source tools you should be using and 9 online petition tools.
• Directories of Free Photos, Free Music, Free Video
• Free social media reports and whitepapers for nonprofits
• How nonprofits should be using storytelling
• 9 ways nonprofits can excel using social media
• Behind the success of 10 top Causes
• How to make your website more accessible
• How to build a sustainable community
• Social actions toolset: a collection of the widgets, plug-ins, extensions, Web & mobile applications, mashups and tools
• Mobile: How to set up an SMS campaign system
• 10 tactics to be more efficient with social media
• 8 tips for raising funds online
• 15 social tools for local impact
• SEO: 9 tips for optimizing a nonprofit site
• 12 great nonprofits & causes to follow on Twitter
• Nonprofits’ Social Media Policies
• More articles about social social media tools
• More articles about social media resources
• 2010 calendar of nonprofit & social change conferences
Additional readings & resources
• MobileActive.org is the definitive resource on mobile tech in social change
• Texting for Charitable Dollars: The Definitive Guide to Mobile Fundraising (MobileActive)
• Mobile Benchmarking Study – Mobile Advocacy and Fundraising Benchmarks
