Chandeleur Islands Balloon Aerial Imagery from Grassroots Mapping Ways to get involved & new technologies being used to stop and track the disaster President Obama addressed the nation last night and made a stop in the Gulf Coast region this week to survey the damage and relief efforts. As local residents already know, the environmental […]
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Seafood Watch, La Cocina & collective buying power
At NetTuesday San Francisco last night at TechSoup Global, three fabulous presenters provided different perspectives on the slow food movement in the United States. The event wasn’t recorded, so here are some quick notes, which I scribbled down the old-fashioned way (I didn’t bring my laptop because I moderated the session): Seafood Watch Humberto Kam, […]
A step-by-step guide to creating a media strategy
How to create & distribute media for a cause campaign We’re fans of UK-based Tactical Technology Collective’s message in-a-box, so we’re republishing their Designing your strategy tutorial on how to create your own media, distribute it and monitor its impact to further your campaign or project. Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations and campaigns, political […]
Behind the success of 10 top Causes
At the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, one of thousands of causes on Causes.com. Campaigns, timely updates, passionate supporters add up to move the needle By Kim Bale Socialbrite staff Lots of nonprofits and social change organizations have used Causes (formerly Facebook Causes) to raise funds and amplify their efforts, but the vast majority of them haven’t […]
Attend the Mobilize Your Cause Bootcamp in NYC
Take charge of social & mobile media for your cause or campaign At the Personal Democracy Forum in New York on June 2, Katrin Verclas — founder of MobileActive and a partner in Socialbrite — and I will be presenting the first Mobilize Your Cause Bootcamp. I’ve been giving social media bootcamps for some time, […]