Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2006

That's how much food blogger, Pim Techamuanvivit of Chez Pim , raised for UNICEF in 2005. In 2005, 80 food bloggers were involved in the campaign, and together they raised $17,000 for UNICEF. Food bloggers were asked to contribute prizes to the campaign, and readers were asked to buy virtual raffle tickets.

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APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. " Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications. Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! And if you???re

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DECEMBER 22, 2007

The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here. Do you think these are worthwhile pursuits for nonprofits?

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AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. You can watch a 16-minute documentary about Kiva on the FRONTLINE World web site. What makes us want to act for social change?

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MARCH 16, 2007

9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there. " Another write up about Kiva. If you want to talk about micro-lending with Kiva for a whole day, here's a Talkathon. Extreme Email Makeover. Here's an example from Doctors Without Borders.

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