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Mobile advocacy efforts are just beginning around the world. What are we learning from these emergent campaigns what works and what does not in using mobile phones to advance a cause or an issue? Of course, we think that advocacy organizations should start to pay serious attention to using mobiles in their work. There is […]
Activism
How KidsAreHeroes.com uses social media
How KidsAreHeroes Uses Twitter from John Haydon on Vimeo. I had the incredible opportunity to speak with Gabe O’Neill of Kids Are Heroes a couple of weeks ago and was completely blown away by two things: His unwavering sense of mission. He uses only Twitter for social media actions. Kids Are Heroes recently won the […]
Change.org adds Jobs for Change
Change.org’s Jobs for Change is a career service and jobs marketplace that aims to help people find and develop a career they love in social change — which for them means nonprofit, government, and social enterprise jobs. To do this, they’ve hired a team of career advisors who will each be writing a daily blog […]
Maplight shines a light on politics & money
Maplight: shining a light on politics and money from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Sean Tanner, research director of MAPLight.org, talks about how the organization provides transparency to the political donations system through widgets that tap into pubic information databases. We spoke at the NetSquared conference in San Jose, Calif., in May 2008, where MAPLight won […]
Twitter as a tool for activism
There is an inherent tension between strategy and tactical implementation of using social media to support a campaign’s objectives or nonprofit’s mission, whether the goal is fundraising, marketing, or taking action. Those who are just beginning to incorporate social media into their strategic thinking struggle with: “How do we get to know and understand how […]
