Mobilizing Youth tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-614969 2009-04-14T23:07:48-07:00 Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize, and Mobilize Youth TypePad Google Earth/Ocean/Mars Tours tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65484587 2009-04-14T23:07:48-07:00 2009-04-14T23:07:48-07:00 These tours are phenomenal. You must check them out: http://earth.google.com/plugin/tours/#appalachian Such fantastic uses for telling the story of a cause. Ben Rigby

These tours are phenomenal. You must check them out:


Such fantastic uses for telling the story of a cause.
 The YouTube Presidency tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65392549 2009-04-12T23:40:46-07:00 2009-04-12T23:43:39-07:00 Good article that sums up Obama's approach to online video and its tremendous significance in politics to come: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1 Quote: Since Obama was elected, the White House new-media-operations team has supplied YouTube with Obama’s “Your Weekly Address” videos, among other clips. The channel is regularly among YouTube’s most viewed and most subscribed. Beginning on Jan. 24, the president has appeared in various gilded White House parlors, speaking mostly about the economy. He eschews preamble, “God bless America” and other stock presidential rhetoric. In these clips, Obama usually starts with brisk optimism and then falls into a somber acknowledgment of the nation’s straits. Other times he runs the bad-good news in reverse.... When past politicians have been praised for their “use” of media, they’re often seen as having deftly orchestrated an advantageous relationship with the press — having somehow won them over, as democratic politicians might generally aim to do. Obama’s team, in producing and distributing more video (by far) than any past administration, has not so much won over political journalists as led the pack to become the new media on the White House beat. Does that strike anyone as unsettling? Ben Rigby

Good article that sums up Obama's approach to online video and its tremendous significance in politics to come:



Quote:

Since Obama was elected, the White House new-media-operations team has supplied YouTube with Obama’s “Your Weekly Address” videos, among other clips. The channel is regularly among YouTube’s most viewed and most subscribed. Beginning on Jan. 24, the president has appeared in various gilded White House parlors, speaking mostly about the economy. He eschews preamble, “God bless America” and other stock presidential rhetoric. In these clips, Obama usually starts with brisk optimism and then falls into a somber acknowledgment of the nation’s straits. Other times he runs the bad-good news in reverse....

When past politicians have been praised for their “use” of media, they’re often seen as having deftly orchestrated an advantageous relationship with the press — having somehow won them over, as democratic politicians might generally aim to do. Obama’s team, in producing and distributing more video (by far) than any past administration, has not so much won over political journalists as led the pack to become the new media on the White House beat. Does that strike anyone as unsettling?

 Nonprofit GIS tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64943535 2009-04-01T09:24:47-07:00 2009-04-01T09:27:23-07:00 Thanks to Spike for posting a link to this org in a comment on the GIS page. Non Profit GIS: http://www.nonprofitgis.org So glad to see a resource like this come out - as I find mapping one of the most convincing ways to use the Web to involve, connect, and organize supporters... in addition to telling the narrative of a cause. Excited to dive into the site and see what's there. Ben Rigby

Thanks to Spike for posting a link to this org in a comment on the GIS page.

Non Profit GIS:  http://www.nonprofitgis.org

So glad to see a resource like this come out - as I find mapping one of the most convincing ways to use the Web to involve, connect, and organize supporters... in addition to telling the narrative of a cause. Excited to dive into the site and see what's there.
 Twitter Visualization Shows Who Influences Who tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64441399 2009-03-21T08:23:00-07:00 2009-03-21T08:23:00-07:00 Now here's a visualization with real practical data that *anyone* can use - by inputing their own data or the data of people they know. It's a great example of a single-purpose visualization that has broad applicability. The scary thing is that it makes implicit personal connections very very explicit. This is the world into which we are already in... for better or for worse. Article: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_inner_circles_of_10_geek_heroes_on_twitter.php Visualization Tool: http://twitter.mailana.com/ Example: http://twitter.mailana.com/profile.php?person=timoreilly& Image of Tim O'Rielly's influencers: Ben Rigby

Now here's a visualization with real practical data that *anyone* can use - by inputing their own data or the data of people they know. It's a great example of a single-purpose visualization that has broad applicability. The scary thing is that it makes implicit personal connections very very explicit. This is the world into which we are already in... for better or for worse. 


Article:

Visualization Tool:

Example:

Image of Tim O'Rielly's influencers:

Timotwitter 

 ROI and HSUS tag:typepad.com,2003:post-63891681 2009-03-10T10:01:50-07:00 2009-03-10T10:01:50-07:00 Here's a great post by Beth Kanter about ROI, detailing the experiences of the Humane Society. I profiled the Sunny the Seal MySpace experience in my book - and this post fills out more about how the HSUS is circling around developing ROI metrics. So glad to have some followup. Thanks Beth. Ben Rigby

Here's a great post by Beth Kanter about ROI, detailing the experiences of the Humane Society. I profiled the Sunny the Seal MySpace experience in my book - and this post fills out more about how the HSUS is circling around developing ROI metrics. So glad to have some followup. Thanks Beth. 

 Value of Twitter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-63641401 2009-03-04T10:47:49-08:00 2009-03-19T10:29:32-07:00 A lot of people have been asking me about Twitter recently... including my mom who called it "Tweeter" which made me laugh. Here's the chapter on it that got cut from my book: http://blog.mobilevoter.org/microblogging.html (although an interview with Evan Williams is still in there) I found this great presentation recently which does a nice job of explaining (below) and also a bunch of recent links. So I can now send people to this blog post to explain. Hooray. Pogue from the New York Times on Twitter: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/twittering-tips-for-beginners/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html The Wall Street Journal on Twitter: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123638550095558381.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us A great review of Twitter add-ons and resources: http://www.typepadhacks.org/2008/03/twitter-tools-t.html Political Tweeting: http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/political-twitter-what-it-good-edition Facebook faces off against Twitter: http://ow.ly/DJX 7-Twitter-Business-Applications Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work Business social media Ben Rigby

A lot of people have been asking me about Twitter recently... including my mom who called it "Tweeter" which made me laugh. Here's the chapter on it that got cut from my book:

http://blog.mobilevoter.org/microblogging.html

(although an interview with Evan Williams is still in there)

I found this great presentation recently which does a nice job of explaining (below) and also a bunch of recent links. So I can now send people to this blog post to explain. Hooray.

Pogue from the New York Times on Twitter:
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/twittering-tips-for-beginners/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html

The Wall Street Journal on Twitter:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123638550095558381.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us

A great review of Twitter add-ons and resources:

 History of computing tag:typepad.com,2003:post-63501373 2009-03-01T11:50:02-08:00 2009-03-01T11:50:02-08:00 Nice animated video about history of computing with great audio track and closing titles are great!: http://blog.picol.org/history-internet/ Ben Rigby <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Nice animated video about history of computing with great audio track and closing titles are great!:<br><div><a href="http://blog.picol.org/history-internet/">http://blog.picol.org/history-internet/</a><br></div><br> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9hIQjrMHTv4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=de&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9hIQjrMHTv4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=de&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> </div> Genocide Intervention Network: One of the best social media case studies tag:typepad.com,2003:post-63392449 2009-02-26T12:37:51-08:00 2009-02-26T12:39:27-08:00 This is a great example of a successful social media campaign. Be sure to read about it: http://rootwork.org/blog/2008/10/using-social-networks-social-change-facebook-myspace-more Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View more presentations from Ivan Boothe. (tags: sns networks) Ben Rigby <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This is a great example of a successful social media campaign. Be sure to read about it:<br><div>http://rootwork.org/blog/2008/10/using-social-networks-social-change-facebook-myspace-more<br></div><br> <div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_632091"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/rootwork/using-social-networks-for-social-change-facebook-myspace-and-more-presentation?type=presentation" title="Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More">Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=diapanel2008-1222968200249297-8&stripped_title=using-social-networks-for-social-change-facebook-myspace-and-more-presentation" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=diapanel2008-1222968200249297-8&stripped_title=using-social-networks-for-social-change-facebook-myspace-and-more-presentation" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/rootwork">Ivan Boothe</a>. (tags: <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/sns">sns</a> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/networks">networks</a>)</div></div><img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyMzU2ODA*Njc*OTAmcHQ9MTIzNTY4MDY2MDM1NyZwPTEwMTkxJmQ9Jmc9MiZ*PSZvPWFkMDcwNmY2ZWMzODRiOWViM2Y1MGEyMGMyZDZkOGQ3.gif" /> </div> 8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog tag:typepad.com,2003:post-63344885 2009-02-25T13:22:46-08:00 2009-02-25T13:22:46-08:00 Good summary of top reasons to have a nonprofit blog by Britt Bravo. Find it here: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/2009/02/8-benefits-of-having-nonprofit-blog.html Ben Rigby

Good summary of top reasons to have a nonprofit blog by Britt Bravo. Find it here:

 Presentation for CAHHS tag:typepad.com,2003:post-63291907 2009-02-24T11:23:31-08:00 2009-02-24T11:23:31-08:00 Hello to everyone from the CAHHS conference. It was great to meet you and to chat about hospital volunteerism. My PowerPoint presentation is embedded below - feel free to comment with questions or further thoughts. And remember that the slides near the end are very rough ideas at this point. Ben Rigby's presentation for California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (CAHHS) View more presentations from benrigby. (tags: cahhs) Ben Rigby <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Hello to everyone from the CAHHS conference. It was great to meet you and to chat about hospital volunteerism. My PowerPoint presentation is embedded below - feel free to comment with questions or further thoughts. And remember that the slides near the end are very rough ideas at this point.<br> <div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_1065024"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/benrigby/ben-rigbys-presentation-for-california-association-of-hospitals-and-health-systems-cahhs?type=presentation" title="Ben Rigby&#39;s presentation for California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (CAHHS)">Ben Rigby&#39;s presentation for California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (CAHHS)</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=CAHHS-090224125950-phpapp01&stripped_title=ben-rigbys-presentation-for-california-association-of-hospitals-and-health-systems-cahhs" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=CAHHS-090224125950-phpapp01&stripped_title=ben-rigbys-presentation-for-california-association-of-hospitals-and-health-systems-cahhs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/benrigby">benrigby</a>. (tags: <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/cahhs">cahhs</a>)</div></div> </div>