Technology for Social Change session at Chain Reaction 2008 with Steve Moore, Anna Maybank, Tom Loosemore, Alberto Nardelli, Simon Doggett, Dominic Campbell, Dan McQuillan. Click below to join the live blogging coverage (or to read the archived coverage). This session takes place at 3 pm in London, UK.
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Involving People in Social Action session at Chain Reaction 2008 with Emily Beardsmore, Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP, Nipun Mehta, Gib Bulloch and Jane Tewson. Click below to start the live blog coverage (or archived coverage). This session takes place at 11 am in London, Uk.
We’re here and setting up at Chain Reaction. Looks to be a great two-day event! I’ll be keeping you up to date on how to engage if you can’t be here in person.
Connect to the community here on Crowdvine!
Stay tuned here for live coverage from sessions using CoverItLive!
Follow the conversation on Twitter from me and Chain Reaction!
Watch videos from presenters and participants on YouTube!
You’ll want to watch for the video (on YouTube this morning) interview with me and Jeremy Gilley of Peace One Day!
Tomorrow and Tuesday I’ll be helping at Chain Reaction 08 and hope you’ll join me. What’s that? You can’t make it to London? That’s okay!
How to get in from afar:
- Twitter - follow the Twitter feed from the Chain Reaction team and myself
- Flickr - see pictures as they are added to the Chain Reaction group
- Crowdvine - connect with participants online
- YouTube - watch video clips from participants, event organizers, speakers and more
I will be working with David Wilcox and a few others doing some social reporting. That means I’ll (try to) be your ticket to the event if you can’t come in person! Watch for updates through all the above links as well as some live blogging from sessions! Connect with you tomorrow!
These are my links for November 6th through November 14th:
- Social by Social - A new project capturing case studies and lessons learned about social change projects using the social web - more details soon, stay tuned!
- Net2 Rebate for 2008 Nonprofit Software Development Summit! - Get a discount to the Nonprofit Software Development Summit - a great place to collaborate with others working on technologies for nonprofits.
- Five More Reasons Small Non-Profits Need Twitter | CorporateDollar.Org … - Great reasons to use Twitter as an organization - especially if you are looking for some more ideas to add to your list for getting buyin at your organization!
- Faceforce | Integrating Social Networks with CRM - Interesting application for salesforce users, pulling in data from Facebook and connecting your work to the social platform.
- How to approach social media like a grown up | Joanna Geary - This is a great slide deck from Sacha Chua from IBM about using social media tools at work. It's funny, nails the points, and instructional!
It’s already day 13 of the 29-Day Giving Challenge! I wanted to let you all know that I haven’t given up on the challenge; instead, I’m blogging about my participation and connecting with others online in the 29-Day Giving community set up on Ning. It’s a great example of a community online supporting each other and sharing learning, ideas, and fun.
I invite you to join me on the 29-Day Giving Challenge Community!
Are you participating in the 29-Day Giving Challenge? Let’s connect!
Learn more about the challenge and the online community.
I just posted over on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog on People-Powered Content: It’s Driving the Web and Could Drive Your Community! Head over to the SSIR blog to read the full post and comment!
From every corner of the Web, we can see how Web sites, campaigns, news and even fundraising is shifting from organizations and corporations at the wheel to individuals taking the driver’s seat. Is it good? It most certainly is!
We are seeing it more and more often. Organizations like The Nature Conservancy have created ways for supporters to contribute photos of nature via the Flickr group and the 2008 Photography contest. Engaging long-time supporters who enjoy taking pictures and letting nature photo enthusiasts become supporters through appealing to what they are already interested in.
News organizations have wrapped their arms around the citizen-created content wave as well. Uses of comments on news stories online are abundant. Citizen journalism like community-based news sites and iReport are inspiring more and more citizen journalist participation every day. Even citizen-inspried content like Spot.Us invites individuals to jump in.
The citizen-created content isn’t just for news and photos, though. Ushahidi, a platform that enables citizens to use SMS text messages to report incidents of violence in crisis zones to be mapped online, has just released another deployment of it’s engine—this time for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Twitter Vote Report, allowed voters to send messages via Twitter (either through SMS text messages or a web browser) with information about wait times or even fraud at polling places, to be mapped online. Both platforms let citizens share important information with others in their specific geographic location, as well as with the world, creating a more connected and transparent process.
Even President-Elect Obama is channeling the citizen-driven voice. On his website, Change.gov, citizens of both the US and the world are invited to share ideas, recommendations and priorities about policies and issues. Inviting anyone to participate.
It’s clear that the citizen-powered web is here. But, what about nonprofit organizations working hard to make a difference in the community and world at large—how do they ignite citizens and supporters?
For ways your organization can identify what your community wants to do for you, read on at SSIR!
Whether your candidate won or not on Tuesday, we can all be happy to be rid of campaign commercials, right? Since the campaigns are still so fresh in our memory, I wanted to use it for this month’s Net2 Think Tank question.
Topic:
What was the best example or lesson learned about leveraging social media from the political campaigns this year? We saw candidates speaking to citizens through various mechanisms, but we also know that candidates have a lot more money than most of our nonprofit organizations (even if the tools are free, staffing and strategy development isn’t). What social media tools, tricks, and strategies were employed that could be used successfully with nonprofits?
Here are a couple links from the applications themselves in case you didn’t see them:
Deadline:
Saturday, November 22nd
(The round-up will be posted on Monday the 24th.)
How to contribute:
- Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog. (For directions on contributing to the NetSquared blog, click here)
- Tag your blog with net2thinktank
- Send me the link to your post! (You can leave a comment here, email me, etc.)
Thanks again to everyone who participated last month. I’m really looking forward to your ideas and insights this month and think we have a lot of examples to choose from. Be sure to send me the link to your post by Saturday, the 22nd!
The Net2 ThinkTank roundup will be posted on the NetSquared site on Monday, November 24th.
These are my links for October 31st through November 6th:
- Bayer Center Nonprofit Technology Survey - Even if you aren't working in Southwester PA, USA, I think it's always interesting and beneficial to check out trends and characterists of nonprofits using social media. The Bayer Center Technology Survey 2008 is the 5th in the series.
- Twitter Blog: OMG, That Was A Big Day - Check out some of these incredible stats from Twitter related to the election!
- Facebook | The Facebook Blog - Facinating to see some of the statistics of Facebook users from election day!
- Looking forward to a “wiki-presidency” - AboutUs discusses the role of wiki in the next presidency.
- NASA - NASA Twittering - Check out all of the Twitter streams from folks at NASA for the different NASA missions, including the 'famous' Mars Lander!
Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.
“None of us on our own can change the world, not governments, not businesses, not charities. We succeed when we work together.” That’s the premise of Chain Reaction, an event that brings together social leaders, community activists, policy makers, business leaders, young people and people like you from around the globe to share learning and to generate new ideas for social change, locally, nationally and globally.
What’s Chain Reaction?
Chain reaction, taking place in London, UK, promises to be a unique experience, convening space for a multitude of potential collaboration and creativity. How do you want to change the world?
At Chain Reaction you will meet people from all walks of life, who are saying “we can build a better world”, shaping new ways of living and working and inspiring others through their ideas and their actions. Chain Reaction is the place to learn about HOW social change happens, and to get involved in developing new and exciting projects.
The two-day event will include key note speeches, workshop sessions, and open spaces to ensure everyone has a chance to connect and to be inspried (not to mention to inspire others)! You can check out the program to see what sessions interest you.
Details:
- Date: 17-18 November, 2008
- Venue: The Room by the River, London, UK
- Who: See a list of participants here
- Cost: The registration prices vary based on your organization, etc.
- Register: Register for the event here!
I will be at Chain Reaction and will be posting about the event throughout the two days right here on the NetSquared blog. Want to join me?
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