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Carey, who is on Twitter with the handle "DrewFromTV," offered $100,000 for the Twitter name "@drew," which is was offered for sale by Drew Olanoff, of "Blame Drew's Cancer," who was willing to auction off his Twitter handle to raise...

As part of our ongoing research project into the future of membership-based advocacy organizations, we’ve been talking to folks from “new” as well as “older” groups focused on issue-organizing. We’re hoping to find out how the nature of civic engagement...

Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN "Next Year's Twitter? Foursquare" predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010.FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. FourSquare...

I think I want to change Garrison Keillor's well known descriptor of Lake Wobegone. It goes "Minnesota from"where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." Let's add "and where the...

TweetsGiving 2009 If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. Twitter for...

When we kicked off the WeAreMedia, A Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits 18 months ago, we included two areas about content creation. There was a strategy module that shared best practices in storytelling and a tactical module called "Tell...

Give to the Max in Minnesota Day I've been noticing a social media spin on making charitable donations in your community, regional, or state. Here's three recent examples. 1) GiveMN GiveMN a new online resource that hopes to encourage more...

Paula Kahumbu, Wildlife Direct and PopTech Fellow 09 Last week I wrote about a pair of surveys that looked at social media and nonprofits. One came to the conclusion that social media was a waste of time; the other talked...

On November 19th 2009, at The Paley Center for Media’s International Council Event, ThinkSocial will be recognizing three outstanding examples of innovation, featuring – an individual, an initiative and a collaboration between institutions, which together represent powerful models for how...

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood...