This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell ’s “10 Ways” series . Another way to spread awareness among your social graph is to share links to blog posts and news articles via sites like Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, and even through email. You can follow the Summer of Social Good Charities: Mass publishing. Did you know this is accomplishable through blogs?

and Social Networking news - launched Summer for Social Good - an all social media charitable giv ing campaign to benefit 4 charities. According to the release, "the Summer for Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet over an extended period. The 4 charities to benefit from Summer for Social Good include: Last week, Mashable - a leading tech blog focused on Web 2.0 The goal is to use the power of “Social Influence” via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs

This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell ’s “10 Ways” series . Another way to spread awareness among your social graph is to share links to blog posts and news articles via sites like Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, and even through email. You can follow the Summer of Social Good Charities: Mass publishing. Did you know this is accomplishable through blogs?

Customers spread the news of cool hangouts or great places to shop, flag meet-up spots for friends, visit new places for points and revisit favorites to retain their title of mayor. For example, this past summer my nonprofit did a pinup program with four New England businesses: Tedeschi Food Shops , Ocean State Job Lots , iParty and The Upper Crust . Of all the different social media tools I’ve tried (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, blogging, etc.),

cities conducted in the summer of 2007. Tags: Writing Workplace Communication News media analysis My Tak If your nonprofit employs interns or young adults in any capacity where writing is involved, a new PEW report (below) may interest you. The study's authors seem suprised that teens differentiate between the writing that they do via text messaging and instant messaging from writing they do in school.

It also keeps the Red Sox in the red so they can continue to invest in talent to beat the snot out of the Yankees this summer. Tags: Cause Practices cause-related marketing Cause Marketing News sponsorships cause marketin Beth Kanter ( @kanter ) shared this Performance Research study  with me that shows that American consumers are in favor of more corporate sponsorship dollars flowing to causes and nonprofits.  A

The good news is it worked.  We have a local food show here in Boston called the Phantom Gourment that we’ve partnered with to work on their outdoor BBQ event this summer that attracts 50,000 people.  Yesterday was the first day everyone from the team was back in the office from the holidays so it was a good time to catch up about our cause marketing resolutions for 2009.  I’m unsure how much I’ve told you about my team in the past but it’s comprised of a wonderful group of marketing, sales and event professionals who plan and execute multiple cause marketing

TweetDeck is great to help me keep on top of legislative news, learn about food bankers across the nation using Twitter, and find the latest local news and buzz. Asking someone to donate to the Food Bank because of the impact hurricane evacuees have on your community, or because children don’t have access to school meals in the summer is a heckuva lot more compelling than just a general ask.  We can see from this week’s Facebook debacle that social media clearly become a critical part of any organization’s overall marketing strategy. With one post

Great news from the folks behind ‘Causes’ last week, with the announcement that they just passed the $10m point in donations since launch back in May 2007 . Remember those far gone halcyon days of summer 2007 when you first had a whole range of apps to add to your profile – and ended-up playing with Zombies and Foodfight?). This is good news for online community fundraisers, as it introduces an older generation Causes was without doubt a trend-setter from the outset, being one of the very first apps to be launched after the Facebook Platform toolkit was made available – enabling the development of 3rd party Applications (Apps) that integrate directly with Facebook user data. (Remember

their honoree for this year, chosen last summer, is John A. What often seems to get lost when we talk about the viability of the news media is the idea that people value journalism and the ability to tell a good story. Email Click Rates Lowest Yet. And for Nonprofits...? Benefit Honorees in Short Supply The Institute for Applied Tweetonomics Post Boom Social Journalism .................................................... Rough week?