I’ve been thinking about this since the Republican convention a month ago: isn’t the CauseWired movement the virtual empowerment of thousands – and potentially millions – of community organizers, that class of do-gooders so derided by the GOP nominees in Minneapolis? Sure, I know their derision was about knocking down a portion of Barack Obama’s [...]

I was pleased to moderate the panel “Social Media: Philanthropy in a Connected World” at last week’s 2008 CECP Corporate Philanthropy Summit at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. Terrific group: Allison Fine, author of Momentum, Fortune Magazine senior editor David Kirkpatrick, and Sean Parker, co-founder of Causes on Facebook (and MySpace). The discussion centered [...]

As Hillary Clinton conceded the hard-fought Democratic primary to Barack Obama on Saturday, many observers noted their campaigns’ online grace notes. The Obama campaign thanked Clinton on its front page, and prepared a special video page to pay tribute to the pioneering New York Senator. Clinton’s campaign called for supporting Senator Obama, and even included [...]

Philanthropy blogger Sean Stannard-Stockton has his list for predictions for the nonprofit sector up, and here’s number 10 – certainly one I’ll be paying close attention to over the coming months as I work on this book: After Facebook’s Causes application is believed to have played a significant role in the increased voter turnout for [...]