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Pros and Cons of Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She was looking for presenters for a conference and she just pointed me over to Ethan Zuckerman's insightful analysis of Facebook activism. moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. See also: Is Facebook interaction design a one-night stand, with no flirting? The people who got involved weren??? serial activists???,

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Changing the Present, Give Meaning, and Personal Fundraising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Sharing Foundation sends a personalized, made in Cambodia, thank you card designed by one of the talented orphans we're supporting for high school and art lessons no less ! " Peter gives us analysis of the landscape: Building a community of small-scale philanthropists sounds like a novel idea. Big or small.it t matter???just

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. Our newest human rights project is looking closely at the human rights challenges in Darfur.

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