August 24th, 2008
Top Ten Resources: How to Use Social Media for Social Change
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As promised, here are my top ten resources on social 2.0 or how to use social media for social change —
- Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant who writes about the effective use of social media tools in the nonprofit sector to enable social change.
- NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network
NTEN is a community of nonprofit organizations that aims to help them to use technology more effectively via it’s blog, webinars, newsletters, conferences, events, research and online community.
- Net Squared: Remixing the Web for Social Change
Net Squared is another community of nonprofit organizations that helps them use technology via its blog, online community, events, conferences and mashup challenges.
- BlogHer Social Change Section
Posts on social change, non-profits and NGOs by women bloggers at BlogHer.
- TechSoup: The Technology Place for Nonprofits
TechSoup.org offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support
- NPTech
NPTech is a resource developed by Peter Campbell that aggregates nonprofit technology information from across the internet.
- Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth by Ben Rigby and Rock the Vote
A book on how to use new media to recruit, organize, and mobilize young people.
- MobileActive: A resource for activists using mobile technology worldwide
MobileActive is a community of people and organizations using mobile technology for social impact. It has a blog, directory, mobile usage database, and original research.
- Global Voices Online: The world is Talking. Are You Listening?
Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – highlighting places and people mainstream media often ignore.
- Ashoka Foundation: Innovators for the Public
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.
What are your favorite resources on how to use social media for social change?
Excellent list and thanks for including me .. BTW, my name is spelled “kanter” -
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@Beth: Apologies. Made the correction.
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