Seasons Fund supports work that is transformative at the personal, organizational and field-wide levels. We fund personal development work that increases organizational effectiveness and encourages strong leadership. In a previous post, Spirituality, Religion and Activism: What's the Connection? Who are the founding members?

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a mini-workshop at the Director's Institute  for the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network in Sacramento.   For this group, I felt it was important to ask about personal comfort/experience and whether or not they felt social media had any value for their agency. 

danah boyd, who is a doctoral candidate at the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley, is focusing her dissertation on how youth engages in networks like MySpace, Facebook, etc. rallies and other in-person meet-ups. Bobbi Russell on Should you send your press releases to blogs? Comment are underutilized.

She asked members of the Courage Campaign to send in personal photos with a simple message “Don’t Divorce Us&#. The people who work in online advocacy and fundraising are some of the most creative people I know. In 2009 their campaigns made me laugh or helped me channel my frustration over injustices into action. The result?

Tab on the Special Olympics of Northern California Facebook Page , if you have access to and a working knowledge of Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Tip: Causes is super difficult to get on your page if you create it as a person from your personal profile on Facebook. The Static FBML App. icons [ Example: World Wildlife Fund ].

If you head west from Boston and keep going, you will hit California. But you will hit California - if that’s where you want to go. What’s the return on getting to know what’s personally important to your fans (their families, dreams, favorite TV shows)? Investing in an ERP system? This makes a lot of sense.

Your emails, faxes, phone calls, postcards, and even in-person visits to Starbucks added strength to the call of Ethiopian farmers and brought global attention to this issue." Guess what? Your advocacy made a difference. More than 96,000 of our supporters around the world helped make this happen. They did a protest. They got 15-20,000 views.

A great example of what technology can do when it is designed with people at its center is the new website: Disability Benefits 101: Working with a Disability in California. ran into the guy who runs it, Bryon MacDonald of World Institute on Disability, at a recent event of the Community Technology Foundation of California.

Your boss is in California picking out antique fountains. On Flickr, we can upload our own photos, tag favorites from the entire site, and get dedicated web addresses for each flickr account member (a person or a project--your choice). I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. Okay, pop quiz. Where do you go? It's (mostly) free.

jordanepstein @ kanter Make it fun, empower people to simply and easily make a personal difference and get commitment. One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what?  Just as Catrina has done with their new campaign! Create something to attend!