November 2008

Amplified 08

Date: November 27, 2008 Location: London, UK Topic: Amplified, from NESTA Description: The Amplified series of events are structured/driven unconference-style events bringing people together that are interested in creating new ideas and moving them forward. Related Links: Event information NESTA

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NFPTweetup: Nonprofits + Twitter in London

Last night was the NFPTweetup – or the Not-for-profit Twitter-users gathering.  Essentially, many great people in nonprofit organizations and serving nonprofit organizations that are connected on Twitter, the micro-blogging tool, wanted to get together offline and really hang out with each other without computers in the way.  There certainly were computers and gadgets floating around [...]

November 25, 2008 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Slides and more from NCVO’s Info Conference

Yesterday was the NCVO Information Conference, focused on how organisations can make best use of recent developments in social media to meet the changing needs and expectations of their audiences.  I had the pleasure of presenting with Laura Whitehead (in person) and Beth Kanter (via skype).  Our session looked at using social media tools to [...]

November 25, 2008 11 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Net2 Think Tank: Lessons from the Campaign

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. Earlier this month, the world watched as America elected a new president who came from a campaign rich with social media.  The campaigns had much more money and resources than all the nonprofit organizations that I know, but were really succeeding with free, or nearly-free, tools.  The question this [...]

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NCVO Information Conference

Date: November 24, 2008 Location: London, UK Topic: Ways to Collaborate and Share Knowledge Using Social Media Description: I had the pleasure of presenting with Laura Whitehead (in person) and Beth Kanter (via skype).  Our session looked at using social media tools to share information inside your organization, and out. Related Links: Blog post with [...]

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Social Innovation Camp announces projects

Social Innovation Camp just announced the projects who will attend the SICamp weekend 5 – 7 December to build on and out to turn their ideas into working projects.  115 ideas were submitted and the top choices include: Going Postal A tool to help people take control of junk mail: Going Postal aims both to [...]

November 21, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Interview: Chris Spavin on Global Entrepreneurship Week

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, so I have the inside scoop from Chris Spavin, a member of the Make Your Mark team working with partners to deliver GEW, catalyze events overseas, and assist the campaign’s development abroad.  Chris believes, “there is so much untapped potential in people and sometimes all [...]

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Great reads from November 20th

These are some links I wanted to share from November 20th. Find me on Delicious for more! the continuing saga of the ROI of social media « small dots – Great points about the difference between things you can really measure and those you can't. Like putting on your pants! Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a [...]

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BullyingUK wins Innovation Award

Earlier this month, I posted an interview with John Carnell of BullyingUK.  John mentioned in that interview the current Click, Create and Print area of the BullyingUK website, letting teachers and students, parents and children create their own anti-bullying posters. What was the order or progression of social media adoption at BullyingUK? As I said [...]

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