Following is a transcript of the inaugural podcast of the new Social Causes Show on BlogTalkRadio with host JD Lasica, founder of Socialmedia.biz and Socialbrite.org, and guest Pamela Hawley, founder and CEO of UniversalGiving. See JD’s blog post on Socialbrite. JD: Today we have Pamela Hawley, founder of UniversalGiving to talk about some of the corporations […]
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Save resources & money with Better World Telecom
A telecom that does good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Until I met Salem Kimble (who earlier covered GoingGreen for Socialbrite), I had never heard of BetterWorld Telecom. With a tagline of “Change the world. One call at a time,” they’re a socially conscious telecom provider for nonprofits and mission-driven businesses that donates 3 percent […]
CauseWorld: Support causes on the go
Last month I made a prediction that we might see fundraisers with Foursquare or some other location-based mobile social network with gaming element. Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0 trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are on track. TechCrunch just wrote about a new mobile application called CauseWorld. Here’s how it works: CauseWorld app […]
Mashable & our favorite posts of the year
Welcome to all the visitors from Mashable! We were thrilled to be featured in Melissa Rowley‘s article, 4 Social Good Trends of 2009. For first-timers, we thought now would be a good time to highlight some of our favorite posts on Socialbrite since our launch earlier this year: Some of our favorite causes • Tweet […]
Social media for social good
Why even small, resource-constrained nonprofits should be using social media Guest post by Jordan Viator Nonprofit Live TV What are some of the ways in which social media can be used to advance the social good? Nonprofit Live TV put the question to Matt Mahan, Nonprofit and Business Development Director of Causes and Carie Lewis, […]