Rock star games pioneer Jane McGonigal at SOCAP 2011 (Photo by JD Lasica). Planning for the month’s top conferences & events Social Capital Markets starts today, heading up a packed month of events in the nonprofit/social change sector. Other highlights include The Feast, PopTech, Bioneers, BSR, NETA, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing […]
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Social media for nonprofits conference series expands
Facebook now boasts over 901 million active members, making it equivalent to the world’s third largest country. But how exactly can nonprofits use it and other platforms to raise money, grow their base of supporters, change policy, and recruit volunteers and board members?
Exploring how to strengthen tools to engage citizens
By BC Gov Photos on Flickr Gathering at MIT seeks to inspire & enable community action It’s been a crazy month of travel, with my giving talks at the Women’s funding Network Summit and the California State PTA convention in LA, a Google conference on Internet freedom in D.C., and now I’m in Boston for […]
Nonprofit & social change calendar: May 2012
Ideation takes place May 7-9 in Chicago. (Photo by @america) Planning for the month’s top conferences & events There are quite a few conferences and events in the nonprofit/social change/education sector this month, and I’ll be at four of them: the Women’s Funding Network Summit in LA on Thursday, the California State PTA annual conference […]
A Success Summit for green business entrepreneurs
Free series will help you kick-start your social enterprise This is Earth Week, and Green Marketing TV is putting on the first Green Business Entrepreneurs Success Summit, aimed at uniting purpose and profit for a sustainable planet. Socialbrite founder J.D. Lasica is participating Thursday at 11 am ET, 8 am PT. Guest post by Lorna […]