Hey everyone,I have some good news to share today. The fine folks at our National organization have finished up the changes to C-Tools 2.0 and have released it as C-Tools 2.5. C-Tools 2.5? What the heck is that you may ask?
Well it’s the first PDA application that the American Cancer Society has ever released. [...]
Saw this great article about "Blogger Relations" from Advertising Age online. Here is an excerpt:
There’s nothing new about bottom-up publicity. Toyota achieved its
reputation for quality three decades ago not because it said its cars
were good but because thousands of customers told Consumer Reports its
cars were good. The only difference today is that we don’t need
mediators [...]
Eric Pfeiffer, at Allbusiness.com blogs about the advantages of a business blog. (Disclosure: I also blog for Allbusiness.com.) Additionally, he also highlights how Cisco uses multiple blogs including one on policy to accomplish its business goals.
This isn’t just for the business sector.The non-profit sector can do this as well.
Want an example of how it works? [...]
I don’t normally plug the podcasts I do for Net Tuesdays, but I thought the last couple for the April 10 meeting were especially interesting if you’re thinking about how young people view volunteer organizations. Actually, I hesitate to use the term "volunteer" and think a fresher term like "activists" might be more appropriate.
The [...]
So now we are starting to get somewhere. The first step when you have something you think is worthy of a Springboard award is to pick up the phone. Who do you call? Well you call an interesting fellow named Randal Moss. Randy is the National Project Manager at the Futuring and Innovation Center. Randal [...]
Wealthy families are shutting down their foundations at an accelerating pace. They are backing the idea of setting a time limit on their giving. This is because they believe they can do more good by spending a lot of money over a short period of time rather than dolling out the funds over a long [...]
I went to a cool little concert yesterday in San Antonio. The group was My Chemical Romance and during the performance he had the house lights turn on and gave a little speech about Cancer. He said that one in three people will face a cancer diagnosis in their lifetimes? As an American Cancer Society [...]
Who’s dabbling in America’s less-that-outstanding healthcare scene now? Steve Case, former founder of AOL. That’s not exactly new but to find that CarlieFiorina and Colin Powell are involved makes you take a second glance. Case started Revolution Health and the others evidently are involved is some way. Case says it today’s NYTimes: “There is a [...]
We’ve mentioned micro-financing and micro-philanthropy. But how small can volunteering become in terms of duration? There’s a volunteering site, One Brick, facilitating short-term volunteering in several cities, San Francisco being one of them. Their site explains it thusly:
One Brick brings volunteers together to support other non-profit organizations by adopting an innovative twist
to the volunteer [...]
So I have an idea. One that I thought of while I was attending SXSW this year. During one of the more interesting panels a little light bulb went off over my head. Not a huge one by any means but a lightbulb none the less. My second thought after having this idea was how [...]
