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CauseWired on Leading Podcast: How Nonprofits Can Use the Web to Create Real Causes

January 13, 2009 at 3:58 pm · Filed under Nonprofits, Podcast and tagged: CauseWired, Change.org, Nonprofits, philanthropy, Podcast

Corey Pudhorodsky has been producing the excellent 501c3cast, which deals with a wide range of issues in philanthropy and nonprofit management, since 2005 – and this week, I was honored to be his special guest on the 107th in this eminently NPR-worthy program. You can listen via the player below, but be sure to click through to Corey’s show notes and to sample the vast archive of essential programming – the 501c3cast really is a vital channel for any nonprofit leader.

I was also pleased to participate in a terrific panel on “Government by the People 2.0″ hosted by the New York Software Industry Association last night in New York. Chaired by Howard Greenstein, my fellow panelists included Micah Sifry of the Personal Democracy Forum, Rachel Stern of GroundReport.com, and Josh Levy of Change.org. Over at his excellent Political Gastronomica blog, wired political consultant Sanford Dickert has a terrific live-blog of the panel (and includes his own observations).

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Guest Post – Social Actions Round-up No. 21

January 6, 2009 at 7:55 pm · Filed under Links, Social Ventures and tagged: Case Foundation, Change.org

Note: The online social activism sector is growing all the time, and sharing information and ideas is crucial to continuing that growth – and the very impact on society. We’re happy to carry the excellent Social Actions Round-up of links and resources here at CauseWired, created by the prolific and plugged-in team of Joe Solomon, Christine Egger and Peter Deitz. Enjoy it – and pass it along!

Over the holidays, online changemakers have not seized to churn out news. Below you will find the latest Social Actions round-up, bringing us up to date with the movers and shakers of online social activism. We’d like to start the New Year by featuring three breaking stories.

Over the holidays, The Case Foundation launched a campaign called, Change Begins With Me. The foundation is inviting people to write brief testimonies about how they plan to make change in 2009. One lucky winner will receive a ticket to President Elect Obama’s inauguration at the end of January.

Also on the change front, Change.org launched 7 new blogs on the second day of 2009. The new blogs include Autism, Education, Global Health, Health Care, Human Trafficking, Poverty in America, and Sustainable Food.

We’d also like to congratulate Tom Watson, author of CauseWired, on the formal launch of his new company, CauseWired Communications. [Note from Tom and his partner Susan: thanks!]

News Roundup

The Case Foundation launches the Change Begins With Me campaign.

Change.org launches 7 new blogs and makes predictions for 2009.

Tom Watson formally launches CauseWired Communications.

Beth Kanter writes about the Facebook Causes birthday application.

Paul Lamb writes on the Cool & Conscientious Ning network about Living Givingly.

Idealist.org writes about best practices for finding the lastest nonprofit news.

Amazee links to a new paper on the growing influence of social networks.

Razoo publishes a list of what it considers the 100 best charities.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy posts the transcript of a discussion about online social activism with Tom Watson.

FastCompany reports on Beth Kanter’s effective Twitter fundraising.

Jim Moss argues that Pointing and Clicking is Not Activism.