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13 Tips for Mobilizing Online Action

Have Fun - Do Good

On Monday night I went to a great event, Money, Mobs, and Media: Mobilizing Action for Change , presented by The Hub Bay Area. Facilitate peer-to-peer referrals. Bay Area The Hub social innovation web activism Kiva Change.org Virgance Regina Connell of SaltCellar moderated. Involve a lot of people. Use the carrot. Use the stick.

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Socially Responsible Schwag As Metaphor for SoCap09

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I attended a panel called "The Future of Social Innovation on the Web" This all-guy panel was facilitated by Dennis Whittle, Global Giving and featured Premal Shah, Kiva.org; Jonathan Greenblatt, Our Good Works; Steve Newcomb, Virgance; and Ben Rattray, Change.org. Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning.

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Got the Winter Blues? Giving May Cheer You Up

Have Fun - Do Good

--Maya Angelou In December 2007, the New York Sun article, Why Giving Makes You Happy reported that: "According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a survey of 30,000 American households, people who gave money to charity in 2000 were 43% more likely than non-givers to say they were 'very happy' about their lives.

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