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Businessweek Names Four Social Media Innovators

Beth congratulations on your selection!  Thanks for sharing how its done on your blog.

Businessweek Names Four Social Media Innovators for 2009: Scott Monty, Noah Brier, Eric Brown and Me(Beth Kanter)!

Eyes to the World: People innovating with social media to help others. Beth Kanter is our pick. She uses every avenue on the World Wide Web to raise funds for Cambodian children through the Sharing Foundation. And she shares what she learns with nonprofits everywhere. Kanter, 52, is also a Net pioneer. A one-time employee of the Boston Symphony, she plunged into the Internet in the early 1990s. She started tapping friends—and friends of friends—through her blog while adopting two Cambodian children in 2000.

 

Congratulations to Beth Kanter and other Women in Nonprofit Technology

For those of us who are in the Nonprofit arena and believe in the power of Information and Computer Technology (ICT), here are some women to take note of and follow.

Congratulations to all of them!

Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock: Adding to Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology List

In December, Fast Company published an article called "The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0" featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 world. The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone.  Kaliya Hamlin, who is the founder of She's Geeky, a women and technology conference taking place in Mountain View, CA on January 30-31st was also on the list.

The post sparked heated debate. Fast Company responded with "The Most Influential Women in Technology."

I'm humbled to be listed in the "Activists" category!

But as with any "best of" or "most this or that" list, it's bound to be incomplete. So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women:

Using Twitter to Save the Lives of Children

This is a wonder idea and a wonderful experiment to follow.  As a nonprofit, Congo Helping Hands, I see a use of this process for us.  One project comes to mind is our mosquito nets, The Six-Quarter Solution.  We purchase and distribute freely nets to pregnant women and young children in the Congo.

I have some homework to do to see how to give.  For me it is so new, I am unaware of how it is done.  Hopefully, others Twitters are more knowledgeable about the process. 

Thanks Laura and Beth, it's great idea! 

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: A Bold Experiment in Micro Donations: $2 from 12, 500 Twitter Users To Fund Clean Water.

Laura Fitton (aka @pistachio) or otherwise known as the maven of Twitter asks:

1. What can $2 do?

2. How can I thank and honor clients and friends of Pistachio Consulting this year?

3. What do I want most of all for Christmas?

Laura wants to save the lives of children, but she knows it's been very difficult year, especially for charitable giving. She also knows that her friends may be looking into their wallets and crying. So, she's come up with this micro donation campaign:

I don’t want to ask much of any one person. I realized just $2 from each of my Twitter readers would be $25,000. If everyone who reads this - YOU - gives just $2, Charity: Water can build an entire water project for a school or hospital in Africa. Betaworks and Tipjoy liked my idea and will 1) waive ALL fees for their “micropayments via Twitter” tool, and 2) match up to $10,000. Donate NOW just by tweeting:

p $2 @wellwishes for (your message here) via @tipjoy