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A jpeg’s worth a thousand words
Josh Goodwin, from our DonorTec technology donation program in Australia www.donortec.com.au, recently asked our nonprofit organisation donation recipients to send in photos that captured what their organisation is about and he made it into a competition called ‘A Jpeg’s worth a thousand words’, for which entries are still pouring in. You can see some of them that Josh inserted into MS Movie Maker on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baa6mKletKg&feature=youtube_gdata .
I just thought you might like to share in the experience.
All For Good? Not everyone seems to think so.
It’s been fascinating watching the various reactions to the launch of All For Good , a nonprofit sector initiative that seems to closely parallel the Obama adminstrations’s United We Serve program. It’s attracted some very heavy hitters, including Google, Facebook, Craig’s List and many more. The intention is that: “All for Good helps people instantly find simple ways to get involved in their community, from being a mentor to helping design a website for a nonprofit. The platform also lets people sign in with services like Facebook or Google to share volunteer activities with friends across social networking services such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others. “
Now who could possibly want to criticise something as wholesome as that? Well, quite a few people actually, including Peter Deitz from Social Actions, who addressed Connecting Up 09 recently, and Volunteer Match.
It’s not the first, or last, time a seemingly well-intentioned initiative has rolled over the top of existing services, especially when the initiators have broader agendas. Stand by for the launch of ROSTI (’Round Object to Support Transport’ Initiative), aka the re-invention of the wheel.
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