For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tools, tactics, and best practices for promoting your volunteer opportunities online. There are many tools and resources available - so finding the ones that work best for your audience, and finding the ways that you can use them effectively can be a task. Below is a list of networks, tools, and best practices that will help steer you in the right direction.  

NetSquared recently followed up with the N2Y3 Featured Projects to develop these short case studies, with the goal to expand the knowledgebase of best practices for applying social media in the nonprofit context. We interviewed participants from the N2Y3 Featured Project teams to gain a better understanding of the way they used social media to increase their reach and carry out their missions. We are very happy to bring you their stories!

Today's spotlight: The Extraordinaries!

 The following is a cleaned-up transcript of "iPhones for Good," yesterday's Social Actions' Change The Web conversation (Social Actions' Joe Solomon notes that the conversation was inspired by this Britt Bravo post). I tried to make it so that the conversation reads a bit more fluidly, is broken down into subsections, and more readable to those who weren't initially involved.

A few months back I was forutnate to talk with Jacob Colker about his experience as cofounder (along with Ben Rigby) of The Extraordinaries. We talked specifically about what he had learned since bringing the idea to last year's Mashup Challenge (the project was then called Volunteer Now).