I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America.  They permitted the use of cell phones, so I tweeted  that even if you are delayed, it's a pleasant experience on Virgin America.   A minute later I noticed Pistachio's tweet about flying Virgin America from Boston and Glenn Stratchan  direct messaged me asking what seat I was in because he thought we might be on the same Virgin America flight.  I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute.  

Can you shape and identify a beginner starter project (s) that doesn't take too much time? How do you balance the time needed for approval with the need to answer your community in real time Tags: america giving challenge backchannel crowdsourcing engagemen Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be interviewed as part of a series of online interviews with nonprofit social media gurus about how to use social media.  The month long event was hosted by the Case Foundation and called " Gear Up for Giving ."   The other gurus included respected colleagues and friends

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) What he did say that was very important - to encourage generosity we must all become nudges" - that we tell the stories of generous acts by people doing something everyday.  Stories come out experimenting, helping people find their voices or the confidence or the desire to take an action, volunteer their time, or raise money for a cause they care about.   There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. 

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! This was truly a group effort - no one person could have done this alone. My America's Giving Challenge Dairy Day 1: We're Entering the America's Giving Challenge I want to thank each and everyone of you who donated, asked their friends and network to donate, spread the word through blogging it or other ways, and helped us cross the finish line in first place! Special thanks to Michele Martin!

I was so busy online working my social media and social networks that I failed to notice the article from the New York Times about the America's Giving Challenge titled "Charities Vie for Prizes in Online Giving Experiment. quo

At the end of the day, while taking a little Twitter break and checking on the progress of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , I noticed that we were 3 $10 donations shy of $15,000 total raised. contributed yet, this would be an excellent time to donate $10! we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Thank you Jonti and Nancy White ! So, I twetted it. Amy Ward (her blog ), Constantin Basturea (his blog ) and Alex de Carvelho , (his blog ) all retwittered. [Retwitter means copying over someone's tweet message

Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven project that aims to identify and Ideas for Change in America is a project of Change.org and was launched  in partnership with more than three dozen partners, initiatives for a limited period of time to see if this method generates create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and 111th Congress can turn the broad call for "change" across the country into specific policies.  

The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Small Nonprofits Dominate America's Giving ChallengeBy Michele DonohueA 30-day online competition showed how social media allows small nonprofits to garner huge support from donors during America’s Giving Challenge, which ended at 3 p.m. EST today.The Challenge spurned more than 106,000 unique donations generatin

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. Check it out right now at America’s Giving Challenge Kellogg Foundation Grant to America’s Giving Challenge Significantly Increases Number of Overall and Daily Awards Offered to Nonprofit Causes It is a program that encourages nonprofits, large and small, to use the web to engage people in their work, and to encourage small donations. They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period

At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open In other contests, the leaderboard has been updated in real time.  Unlike standard practice for other contests,  this leader board is updated twice a day.  Having real-time information is very important to the organizations. It helps them motivate supporters to vote as well as helps (Screen capture of Leaderboard as of Monday, Jan. 18th at 10:00 am w/ four days to go in the voting process.)