America's Sexuality Day www.sexdayusa.com will be announced on March 3, 2010-- only 15 days away. Over the past 2 months four web developers have said they'd volunteer. Unfortunately all four have had delays. We were hoping to have a press conference at The National Press Club in DC on 3/3. Without a web presence to establish our message, I am not sure the date and its symbolism will have a fair launch.

We are in SOS ASAP need for--

• a Home page
• an About page
• a blog format that allows Twitter, FB feeds, and is heavy in growing community integration, and a forum.
• help with getting our poster viral, would be nifty :)

Honestly, I'd be ecstatic right now just for the home page with an attached easy blog.

The internet is a great tool for communicating and connecting. We now have a variety of ways to do so, but which one is best suited for your needs? Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn? Each serves its purpose and audience, but what if your needs aren’t served with these tools? Create your own! Ning is a powerful tool that allows you to not only create a dynamic, easy to update website, but its functionality allows your community to create accounts, share information, connect with you and other people in your community and work collaboratively.

Our users can communicate with one another, which is great, but quite often as an administrator the need may arise for us to communicate with a user or users on our site. It may be to remind them about the web site or to inform active users about new changes to the site, which they may not have been made aware of.

This article is extracted from the "Drupal 6 Social Networking" book. In this article, you will learn:

 I am the co-founder of two related non-profit start-up organizations: Slurve and the Concerned Citizens Coalition.  We came to Net2 because we're looking for like-minded individuals to become part of our team and help us build the web infrastructure that will allow our ideas to reach their potential.  And we really believe our ideas have a lot of potential.

Here is a quick overview of the two organizations:

Check out these slides from the 2009 Department of Peace conference break out session on social networking: Social Networking Tools DOP View more presentations from Ted Nunn.

Crossposted from Rootwork.org.

Just a quick note to say I'll be speaking as part of Social Actions' free "Using Facebook for Social Change" webinar on Thursday, along with Susan Gordon, the nonprofit coordinator of Causes, and moderated by Beth Pickard and David Karp of Firstgiving.

You're invited to join in a live and open text chat to discuss how you can use Facebook for social change. This is your opportunity to share experiences and ask questions about how people and orgs can do outreach, inspire action, and fund raise on the Facebook network.

The webinar is part of Social Actions' Change the Web Conversation Series.

I'll be talking about some of the successes the Genocide Intervention Network has had in using Facebook and Causes to engage its member base, increase the impact of advocacy campaigns, and raise (a little) money.

RSVP for the event, happening Thursday, Feb. 26, at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST. (Note that if you're not already a member of Social Actions, you'll need to sign up before you can RSVP, but it's free.)

I invite you to ask questions in the comments below ahead of time and I'll do my best to answer them during the event!

--Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org

I was happy to see Change.org get itself into the business of content creation and broadcasting by way of its shift towards blogging last November. Not ony do I think that they're doing a great job, and that the blogs are generating some quality content, but with regard to rallying around Internet organized social change, I feel that it makes more sense to get people to rally around and discuss issues first, and then to organize and mobilize them second (and where they are on the web).

Are you a social media trysumer? A digital dilletante, you are constantly trying out all sorts of social media sites, online networks and forums.  You flit from one to the next, finally settling on a few that work for you - for now.  You are, rather literally, a social butterfly. You just might be the future of online fundraising.

Trysumer has newly entered our lexicon, describing a class of consumer who constantly seek new products and experiences.  The good news? They have a great willingness to experiment and play with new ideas and things.  The bad news? They have ridiculously short attention spans.

I have returned from the Millennials Changing America Tour and aside from being a bit tired from it all and the suffering of a minor bronchial infection, I am feeling good about the whole ordeal. When planning the trip, which took me to over 30 cities across the country, I thought that it would be interesting to set up the majority of my housing in each city by way of Couchsurfing so that I could save money and spend time meeting people in my downtime as well as when talking with people on the road.

My organization, IFYC has been working for a long time to develop ways that we can engage youth via social media.

With the development of a Ning Site, the Bridge-Buidlers Network, i think we've finally got it!

http://blog.ning.com/2008/11/building-a-bridge-to-understanding-2.html