Oxfam, The Global Call to Action Against Poverty, Comic Relief, Save the Children, and others are teaming up with YouTube and Black Eyed Peas’ frontman, will.i.am to launch a new song and video. The song will inspire individuals to take action and hold their leaders to account for their Millennium Development Goal commitments. The launch coincides with the UN High Level Event on the MDGs being held September 25th, in New York. The inter-agency campaign team is blogging their experience as they build and launch the action.
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Periodically we here at TechSoup like to share what we're reading. The latest blog gem that I've added to my feed reader is Cause Global, a blog which covers social media for social change and the people involved in using technology tools to make the world a better place.

Creating Social Change is a project of Global Partnerships for Activism & cross-cultural Training. The purpose of this blog will be to share our knowledge, encounters and interests about the process of creating social change. Articles should be useful to the end user and assist them in learning more about running their own projects.

What can I do with Creating Social Change?

Lots of do-good bloggy "Days" coming up!

Blog Day
August 31st
A day for bloggers to recommend 5 new blogs to their readers,"preferably Blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude." For more info. go to www.blogday.org.

About two months ago, a small group of you participated in a short poll about the #1 reason you read the NetSquared Blog. Almost half of you said it was to read about, "Case Studies of Nonprofits Using the Social Web."

I'd love to hear more about the kind of information you are looking for.  Do you want . . .

Stories about how a social web tool was used as part of an organization's campaign?

Stories about how to convince reluctant team members to try social web tools?

Stories about how to use online tools to inspire offline action?

Stories about using the social web to build community?

It's been a little over 2 months since the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) where the 21 NetSquared Mashup Challenge Featured Projects presented their ideas.  The Conference may have ended, but their work has not. 

I've created a list below of the 21 Projects' web sites, blog feeds, Twitter feeds, news feeds and Facebook groups so that you can follow their work as it progresses. (Note: Many of the proejcts also have e-newletters or mailing lists that you can join through their sites).  If I've missed any feeds or sites, please let me know in the comments and I'll add them to the list.

If you are interested in helping a project out, you can contact them directly, or contact Billy Bicket at bbicket AT compumentor DOT org about joining the NetSquared Innovator Support Network.

A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms -- Social Actions
* Third Place Winner

Project site: http://mashup.socialactions.com/
Supporting org site: http://www.socialactions.com
Blog: http://blog.socialactions.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/socialactions
Social Actions on Facebook

Holly Ross, NTEN's Executive Director, posted a number of good nonprofit blogging tips in her piece yesterday, Blogs, Blogs, Everywhere, and Not a Thing to Write.

I though that her advice about how to find the time to blog was useful:

Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference.  At the beginning of the session, I asked folks what their burning questions were.  Below are their questions, and my quick answers.  What questions and answers would you add?

 1. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog?

Answer these questions:

1. What is the goal you want to achieve?
2. Who is your target audience?
3. What are the communication tools you could use to achieve that goal?

If a blog is one of the tools you think would meet your goal, ask yourself:

The NetSquared Community Blog has been running since September 2005! Seems like it's time to find out if it's meeting your needs, and if not, what kind of information you need.

If you could take a moment to vote for the #1 reason your read the NetSquared Community Blog, I'd really appreciate it. And of course, feel free to elaborate in the comments.

Thanks!

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