The Pension Protection Act of 2006 that passed this August tightened the record keeping for cash donations and will ask for more description for non cash gifts starting in 2007. But theses are not the interesting law changes as I see it. One change effects the wealthy that may effect the American Cancer Society. Wealthy [...]
Thanks to the FICenter, I’m half way through what’s been dubbed as "the most important business book since The Tipping Point." It’s called The Long Tail by Chris Anderson and if you have not read it yet, I highly encourage you to pick it up. Even though it focuses on for-profit entities, the book clearly [...]
Well, here’s a movie made in Second Life during the event that’s up on YouTube.
Actually, there are lots of Relay videos on YouTube.
The expansion of real-world-like activities being experimented with in Second Life is reported by a Washington Post article. Singer Susan Vega reccently did a small concert in Second Life via her avatar. There’s a long way to go to make virtual reality appealing to the average person, but the appeal is identified in this quote: [...]
I am here at San Francisco. Last
night there were a ton of live entertainers from SL up on the convention center
stage. Frogg Marlowe and others brought their guitars and keyboards to
play live for the audience. It was very cool to meet numerous SL
Residents face to face and have the very real and sincere handshakes and [...]
The ACS pantheon of web sites has an new member: relayforlife.org. It’s a platform for Relay For Life enthusiasts–and there are many. It’s the beginning of a RFL ecommunity. You can participate in forums, have a blog, and form a buddylist. Check it out!
Our work of organizing people in the fight against cancer hinges on where the people are. Currently, our volunteer base is organized, for the most part, via the workplace. The workplace has morphed over the past decades, from a place where people knew there was a mutual longterm commitment to that of a much more [...]
In an article titled "The Hive" Atlantic Magazine takes an interesting look at Jimmy Wales and the Wikipedia. He says, "Wikipedia has the potential to be the greatest effort in collaborative knowledge gathering the world has ever known, and it may well be the greatest effort in voluntary collaboration of any kind. The English-language version [...]
I just found a blog about nonprofits that I’d like to plug: nonprofiteye. It’s written by LA blogger Pam Ashlund. Her post on the NetSquared blog asks the same question Lisa was asking the other day: Where’s the innovation in nonprofits? How do you get it cookin’ in your organizaton? Anyway, I like Pam’s style [...]
AdAge is taking a poll (may
be closed now) and they are trying to asses the power of the
blogosphere in political marketing. In the background they cite the 2004 Dean campaign – run by my buddy Zack Rosen – and the recent Ned Lamont victory in Connecticut. Yet captains of the political machines are not willing [...]
