Rec.fm donating 100% of product recommendation revenues to benefit Red Cross, Kiva, other nonprofits through Dec. 31 By Sherry Miller Socialbrite Buy what you love, recommend products you love, and your favorite charity receives a donation. How could this be? Rec.fm, a new donor-driven website, makes this happen in three simple steps: choose a […]
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Using social networks to spread change
Editor’s note: Nick Cooney is author of the new book Change of Heart: what Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change. Below is an introduction he wrote for Socialbrite and a chapter from his book: The non-profit world is filled with competing theories about how to create change, with many of those theories revolving […]
Jumo holds promise for social good sector
Note from Beth Kanter: Jumo, the long anticipated social network site for social change, launched this week. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 […]
Plant the seeds of hope wherever you can
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 […]
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.