Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 10, 2007
Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. Avatar Action Center. Games for Change. Creative Commons suggests.
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 26, 2007
Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders, Many of you know that I work as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of TechSoup. I can't move around very fast, my avatar has bad hair and outfits (I can't figure out how to change them), and sitting is a real challenge for me. Create an account and avatar for yourself, also free.
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Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 29, 2006
When you try to explain how the Web can be used for social change to a colleague, family member or friend, do they get a glazed and confused look in their eye? Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from. This post was originally written for NetSquared.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 14, 2007
Meanwhile, funders seek to invest their resources among a wide range of projects that hopefully will lead to larger systemic changes. Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world. vote with their feet,??? these folks can simply fly away. More thoughts from Rik Riel here.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 31, 2007
ll all be able to stay home, prevent climate change and just send our avatars to Switzerland. Has this view been changed by the pervasive Internet access? At Netsquared last May Ethan Zuckerman spoke on a panel and blogged brilliantly at the same time - so he did have time for a chat in the corridor. At this rate, we???ll
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 18, 2006
It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes."--Lev This post was written for the NetSquared blog. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 22, 2007
The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. There is a category for Changing the World. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Go vote here.
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