Most people in the Kiva debate have stated that the fact Kiva loans have already been funded prior to them appearing on the Kiva website is misleading, but that this pre-funding approach is better for the entrepreneurs that Kiva’s users are trying to help. However, it has also been pointed out by many that DonorsChoose, [...]
Category Archives: Social Media
Philanthropy Debate in a Twitter World
October 14, 2009 – 9:05 am
The recent debate about Kiva is the first major philanthropy blog debate since Twitter added a number of philanthropy focused users to their Suggested User list. What makes the debate doubly interesting is that Kiva and their CEO Matt Flannery are two of the Twitter users on the Suggested User list. So let’s look at [...]
Twitter’s Message to Social Entrepreneurs
October 5, 2009 – 7:03 am
On Friday afternoon, Twitter added a number of social entrepreneurs to their “suggested user” list. Over the weekend, Twitter employee Claire Williams (who new suggested user Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE says made the push internally to add social entrepreneurs to the list) left a message for Tactical Philanthropy readers: Hey All – We’re honored to [...]
Twitter Boosts Social Entrepreneurs
October 2, 2009 – 5:31 pm
Late this afternoon, Twitter added a bunch of social entrepreneurship focused Twitter users to their “suggested users” list. For the most part the “suggested user” list is made up of people like Al Gore, Lance Armstrong, Ashton Kutcher, John McCain and Martha Stewart who have millions of followers on Twitter. When the list was updated, [...]
Innovating While Getting Things Done
September 17, 2009 – 8:20 am
In Tom Watson’s response to Seth Godin yesterday, he wrote: Change ain’t easy when the world keeps moving and you have the keep the lights on… More nonprofits need to adapt, to experiment, to take risks, to embrace change. But they need to keep on providing services while they’re doing it. This is a real [...]
Seth Godin : Fear : Vertigo Tolerance : Change
September 16, 2009 – 10:01 am
Seth Godin is someone who a lot of people look at with reverence. Books of his like Tribes and The Dip have been very influential for me and many other people. But boy, oh boy did his post yesterday in which he called nonprofits to task for not embracing change and social media let loose [...]
Social Entrepreneur API
September 9, 2009 – 10:25 am
The Social Entrepreneur API from Social Actions launched at the SoCap Conference. The Social Entrepreneur API (Application Programming Interface) is the first open database of information about social entrepreneurs who have won fellowships and awards from social enterprise funders. The current API includes awards made by Civic Ventures, The Draper Richards Foundation, ideablob, PopTech, The [...]
Learning From Foundation Tweets
August 18, 2009 – 8:09 am
Beth Kanter (currently a visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation), recently analyzed the list of “foundations that tweet” on the Philanthropy411 blog. Beth gives a really interesting breakdown of the various ways the foundations are using Twitter as well as takes a look at the “profiles” the use. She breaks the profiles into four types: [...]
Knowledge Sharing & Ambient Intimacy Part II
July 24, 2009 – 1:14 pm
A friend of mine read my last post and wrote: “Let me offer a counter-posit: the Web is also an environment where loose connections (many of which I WOULD call superficial) can gain disproportionate weight compared with deeper, more substantive connections… But in the current Web 2.0 world, the emphasis for many is in HOW [...]
Knowledge Sharing & Ambient Intimacy
July 24, 2009 – 9:07 am
Philanthropy has for some time been enamored with the idea that the internet will allow us to create a huge database of philanthropic knowledge that will be universally available to everyone. My own posts on the subject of the Googlization of Philanthropy could certainly be read this way. But I’d like to propose that the [...]
