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Web 2.0/social media

Live Stream: DoSomething.org Social Action Boot Camp

by Robert Rosenthal on November 6, 2009

in Conferences & events, Telling Your Story, Web 2.0/social media, volunteer management

Thanks to help from BusinessBoomer, this weekend we’re live streaming coverage of DoSomething.org’s Social Action Boot Camp, which takes place Saturday, 11/7 in NYC.

The Social Action Boot Camps bring together a diverse group of young community leaders, activists and social entrepreneurs for a day of networking and training dedicated to giving [...]

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Turning Good Intentions into Action: Hollywood vs Google

by Greg Baldwin on October 23, 2009

in VolunteerMatch news, Volunteering in the news, Web 2.0/social media

How New Media has Changed the Landscape of Volunteer Engagement
Thursday night was a big night for the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s iParticipate campaign. With unprecedented support from the industry, volunteering themes were written into some of America’s favorite prime-time shows.
It is an extraordinary example of what amounts to product placement for the greater good, so why [...]

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Just Dabbling In Social Media? That’s OK.

by Robert Rosenthal on October 8, 2009

in Designing opportunities, Telling Your Story, Virtual volunteering, Web 2.0/social media

Guest post by Brad Manilla,  let’s dabble, LLC
Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube, Blogger, Digg, Flickr, Wordpress, Eventful, Ning….
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The list of buzz words constantly competing for our attention seems to expand endlessly and yet is often devoid of context. Does your nonprofit need a Jaiku account? Or should you be on Twitter? What’s this thing [...]

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Future Forward: The Extraordinaries Brings Micro-Volunteering to the Web

by Robert Rosenthal on October 7, 2009

in Designing opportunities, Skilled volunteering, Virtual volunteering, Web 2.0/social media

More than a decade since the popularization of  the Internet, innovation is still taking place faster than ever. Now one of the most interesting applications for volunteer recruitment and management — previously available only for the iPhone — is coming to a Web browser near you.
The Extraordinaries is a “micro-volunteering platform” that allows [...]

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