[p2p-research] How charities harness social media for a social impact | csmonitor.com

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Dan,

I wonder if you would not consider a rewrite of your piece, about the
disconnect between ngo´s and the newlz emerging civil society, for the p2p
blog ... just written for a different audience with less contextual
knowledge of your s.i. camps and ngo funding?

Michel

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:05 AM, dan mcquillan
<dan at internetartizans.co.uk>wrote:

> there's some nice examples in the article.
>
> but ime most ngos find that the p2p potentials opened up by social
> media are too much of a challenge.
>
> that's why we started social innovation camp, which has peer-to-peer
> at the heart of its process (and a slogan of 'organising the moment of
> self-organisation').
>
> we're doing our first international camp next week (Social Innovation
> Camp Central & Eastern Europe: http://sicamp-cee.net/).
>
> i've just blogged about why i think that's significant; the themes may
> be of interest to some on this list:
> "The Berlin Wall between civil society and social change "
> http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/Berlin_Wall
>
> cheers
> dan
>
> 2009/9/12 Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com>:
> > This week's CSMonitor had a set of articles on social entrepreneurs and
> > social media like the one I previously linked to. Here is another:
> >
> > "How charities harness social media for a social impact: Networkers shift
> > from sharing info to linking up to effect change."
> >
> http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/08/how-charities-harness-social-media-for-a-social-impact/
> > """
> > ... Harrison’s nonprofit is one of many using social media in surprising
> new
> > ways. As the Internet comes of age, social media has changed the way
> > nonprofits do business. They’ve advanced beyond getting the word out on
> > Facebook and raising money with Twitter to find a unique overlap between
> the
> > mission of nonprofits and the methods of new media.
> >  “People talk about Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 – older and newer. The key
> > difference is that Web 1.0 was automating transactions. You buy a book
> > online, or you send an e-mail. Web 2.0 explicitly creates new ways to
> > collaborate and participate,” says Sean Stannard-Stockton, a social-media
> > blogger and founder of Tactical Philanthropy Advisers. “In nonprofits in
> > particular, collaboration and participation is the mission of the
> > organization…. Web 2.0 tools are custom-made for social change, as
> opposed
> > to just being a new way to do old stuff.”
> >  Across a spectrum of issues, nonprofits have taken to those tools.
> > Kiva.org, a microlending organization that matches up lenders and
> recipients
> > through the Web, sends fellows to villages around the world to blog about
> > loan recipients and about poverty-related issues. The ENOUGH project, an
> > antigenocide organization, started its own YouTube online video channel
> for
> > users to post videos about the links between ubiquitous electronic
> devices
> > and mineral-fueled conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The
> > Extraordinaires, a new-media nonprofit, uses mobile-phone applications to
> > create microvolunteering opportunities in the United States.
> >  Even retrofitting new-media tools to old-media practices bears fruit for
> > some groups. The Echoing Green Foundation, which gives seed money to
> > entrepreneurs that tackle social, environmental, or economic problems,
> > turned its press release about its newest crop of fellows into a video
> this
> > year.
> >  “We really wanted to make the fellows and their words come alive, and
> the
> > best way to do that is to hear them and see them,” says Lara Galinsky,
> > senior vice president of Echoing Green.
> >  It also found a way around a major mainstream-media stumbling block: A
> > press release, Galinsky concedes, “isn’t an evergreen story for the
> media.”
> > A video, on the other hand, has staying power for other audiences. The
> video
> > announcement was passed along through Twitter several hundred times.
> >  That breakdown is one strength of the tandem revolutions in social media
> > and social change.
> >  “There was once a clear information arbiter, [and] nonprofits broadcast
> > their message to a whole bunch of people and hoped it got to enough that
> > they could do what they needed, whether that was raising money or getting
> > volunteers,” says Nathaniel Whittemore, founder of the Center for Global
> > Engagement at Northwestern University. “What you have now is a much more
> > symmetrical relationship in which people who are recipients of the
> message
> > can also become part of the conversation.”
> >  But the best blend of Web 2.0 and social activism may come from
> innovators
> > who set out to exploit the collaborative potential of media tools. ...
> > """
> >
> > --Paul Fernhout
> > http://www.pdfernhout.net/
> >
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