Storytellers for Good: Mama Hope from Storytellers For Good on Vimeo. Now that Thanksgiving is upon us, I want to leave you not with a request for a campaign donation for a worthy cause, but with a thought: What can you do to help change the world? Because the potential to change the world resides […]
Newmediarights.org: Know your digital rights
New Media Rights: Know your online rights from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Target audience: Online publishers, nonprofits, cause organizations, bloggers, podcasters. If you work in online publishing, sooner or later you’ll bump up against the laws surrounding the Internet and intellectual property. Enter New Media Rights, a San Diego-based nonprofit that provides assistance regarding new […]
‘Dragonfly Effect’: Small acts create big change
‘The Dragonfly Effect,” a new book by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, offers a roadmap for nonprofits and individuals interested in discovering “quick, effective and powerful ways to use social media to drive social change,” as the book’s subtitle promises. Part narrative — with an assortment of rich, compelling stories — and part instructional, The […]
Twitter as a force for social good
Most nonprofits and cause organizations look at Twitter as a key ingredient of their social media strategy. But Twitter offers a number of other opportunities for collaboration to advance the social good — many of which you may not know about.
Open Innovation Africa Summit coming to Nairobi
Iwas jazzed to hear about the coming together of some creative players who are putting together the first Open Innovation Africa Summit as a way to explore and foster the innovation ecosystem in Africa. Here are the details, according to Jerri Chou, managing partner of Lovely Day, and my friend Charles Baker. What: Open Innovation […]