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SXSW: Using Social Media to Accelerate Sustainability

Amy Sample Ward

John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. A heroic ideal: our social and environmental problems are solvable; social entrepreneurship; information technology. Started with mega trends of social media and green living. Green or Sustainability? Presenters: Emily Gertz - Change.org. Jon Lebkowsky - Social Web Strategies.

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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Define the problem from your stakeholder’s point of view. Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. Here is a case study of Red versus Green. Here’s the method. Testing different combinations allows you to maximize the results you want to get.

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ROI: What are the best "I" words for nonprofits to think about Social Media and ROI?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For nonprofits, this should not be a foreign concept. Here's a sampling: Lewis Green warns not to use the traditional investment financial calculations but instead measure value. They are saying that you need to measure value and that it value doesn't necessarily translate into dollars.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly Geoff Livingston mentions it here and points to examples and blog posts about the problem in the corporate PR sector.

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Do * Good Magazines

Have Fun - Do Good

I'm also waiting for my sample copy of a new magazine that I heard about on Treehugger called Shift , "a lifestyle magazine that focuses on the exploding environmental movement through a pop culture lens." Their last issue was all about the 10 most hopeful trends of the last 10 years.

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Good Sample Business Principles

Eric Jacobsen Blog

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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How To Be A Green Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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