social media

A joint blog by Beth Sachnoff and Jessica Eting

The June 12 Iran Presidential election and protests surrounding the outcomes, highlights the key role social media can play in grassroots communication.

Win a $25,000 Social Media Makeover from CommuniCause.  The winner will be randomly selected from the top ten nonprofit organizations who receive the most votes.

YouTube is now offering channel services for non-profits.  This allows non-profits to create an account on the site which will allow for unlimited content uploading times, waiving the 10 minute maximum that is enforced on normal acccounts.  To qualify, an organization must be a registered 501(c)3 in the US.  Additional benefits include:

Voting is now closed and we will be announcing the winners by the end of next week.

Thank you to everyone who participated! 

The judges have chosen the final 10 and now its your turn to choose the winner!

Vote on our home page for your favorite haiku before Friday, May 15.

For those voting from the same office (same ip address) you will need to register first.

Read more to see the list of finalists and organizations.

May 6, 2009 - We received many wonderful haikus and our judges are still narrowing down the top ten.  Voting will start soon.  Thank you all for the wonderful entries and we apologize for the delay.

Former ZFellow and current Community Investment Partner, Bob Cabeza, was featured in an article "Helping Kids reach for the sky at the Y" by Greg Mellen. Here's an excerpt from the article.

A few ZeroDivide staff members recently attended a workshop with the intent of immersing ourselves into the world of social media. The folks at NTEN created a very well informed and intense workshop moderated by Beth Kanter. The course was designed to help nonprofits effectively implement a social media strategy to support an organization’s mission.

A joint blog by Beth Sachnoff and Jessica Eting

Today's partnership between CNN.com and Facebook showcased the power of Web 2.0 tools to deliver news and engage the world in a powerful and personal way.

Our partners BAVC are hosting their third Innovation Salon tonight on social networking and media called “Serial Disruption or How I Learned To Twitter Your Flickr. Let me know if you’ll be attending and we can meet up.

(In the spirit of the theme, I’ll be twitterin’ the event.)