Interpublic's Emerging Media Lab and SocialVibe have a patented micro payment system that offers incentives (e.g. charitable donations to favored causes like World Wildlife Fund and Stand Up to Cancer) "to the members of social networks who promote their brands on their personal pages". The public beta began in May 2008. Can you DIGG it?

Yesterday I asked you what kinds of case studies of nonprofits using the social web you'd like to read about on the NetSquared Blog.  In a comment on a different post, Joe Solomon reminded me about the socialmedia4change wiki.

The socialmedai4change wiki is a community wiki of examples of how nonprofits and social change makers are using social networks for social change.  It has examples of how people are using:

Carie Lewis, Internet Marketing Manager at the Humane Society, talks about how the humane society is able to raise funds, awareness, and activity through social networks.

Ok, a little more focus here, how might an organization use social networks on line, to boost their project?

This is a rapidly evolving sector.

There are sites like Myspace, Facebook and quite a few others.

I think one of the goals is to educate the public, expose, but also to find people who already have a common ground to a project.

Interested to hear views on this.

In response to Britt's post about NetSquared's "2007 Best of the Nonprofit Social Web" awards, I humbly submit my own organization, The Nature Conservancy, as an entrant in the Best Use of the Social Web for Raising Awareness by a Nonprofit category.

2007 has been a breakthrough year for The Nature Conservancy's web marketing efforts on the social web, particularly on social news and bookmarking web sites. After about nine months of building up trust and credibility in some of the major social news and bookmarking networks, we finally saw results in a big way this year, including: