Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement. Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media and Democracy Election For the first time in U.S.

Why is there no global search engine for good news? Bad news happens fast and travels fast, while a good story can take much longer to blossom and bear fruit. Even the last item on the late evening news - the one that is intended to make us forget the previous 25 minutes of bad news - well, even that has recently dropped off the end of the bulletin. It Imagine… a humungous aggregator of all the positive good that millions of people have done today. The tiny, but not so insignificant acts of kindness and philanthropy, which if joined together would add

spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence . Blogs, social networks, social news and bookmarking sites are easy to monitor through RSS readers. Tip: Distribute the content you've submitted to the bookmarking and news sites through micro-blogging sites like Danielle Brigida, National Wildlife Federation As As

Thank you to everyone who attended last week's Growing Your Online Communities and Getting Them to Give Online (and Off) webinar hosted by Care2's Eric Rardin. In case you couldn't join us or want to catch something you missed, you can still view a free replay of the webinar in its entirety here . With the economy in historic turmoil and a recession on the horizon, there's never been greater need for nonprofits to raise money effectively

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference . People will read your organization's blog because they want to know about your organizations' news, news related to your cause, and your opinions as thought leaders in your field. Post regularly Link to other blogs Comment At the beginning of the session, I asked folks what their burning questions were. Below are their questions, and my quick answers.

It’s no news to you that the forces of globalization, instantaneous and ubiquitous communications, and unparalleled technological innovation are tearing markets apart, changing global dynamics, and redefining almost every aspect of our lives — but, what may be news is that we “ain’t seen nothing yet.” Meanwhile, “Captain Jack and SkyTeam Traffic Copter” — the old sampling system that had to wait politely for its broadcast time on the six o’clock news — is a relic of the past. Naming an epoch using the superlative prefix of “post” — as in post-industrial, or post-modern, or the particularly unsatisfying post-millennial — is the one true indicator that we haven’t a clue.

The good news is that a new generation of online fundraising solutions are available today that don't have the limitations so prevalent in software of the past. January 2008, the Barack Obama campaign raised $28 million online-88 percent of the total funds raised. Thon Morse, Kimbia [This This article was originally published on Kimbia's website .] Today's

Nearly 1200 people working in nonprofits and technology will come together from around the world for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, April 26-28, 2009. More than ever, technology is helping nonprofits tap into and build communities to create social change. Now, more than ever, our stakeholders are able to connect, share, and act on our behalf from around the globe or around the corner.

Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Peter Deitz, Social Actions With With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?"

The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers . And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items. These early experiments were about how to crowd source, aggregate, and share nonprofit technology news using web 2.0 Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? (Digg Digg it here ).