SocialGood
From MashupCamp
Lead by BillyBicket from CompuMentor * http://www.netsquared.org
Monthly Networking Events at http://www.planetwork.net
Some Topics
- Where are my people
- egalitarian spirit
- Humanitarian Relief
Tsunami, 911, Katrina
- How to Expose Data
- Technologies to Less Privelaged/Special Populations
"Tech for Tech's Sake"? Adoption gap with leadership? Adoption gap for the public
Positive Examples
Cost of fund raising is dramatically lower, rich media,, map interfaces to whole host of stuff, calendars,
WHo are the Developers? How can we find them? Maybe the rapid protoyping tools make sense, Ning, WindoesLive
How the heck do we find things? Where do I look? On any given day, 100s of research reports and news items are released? Is there a closed channel culture, that is blind or averse to network effects of releasing information?
Technorati for grant opportunities? What about a news feed for product offers or special promotions that are benefitting the NP world.
Mashups are rapid prototyping by definition? Long-term vs Short Term. Sometimes somthing that is fast can have a profound impact. Long term issues are biz building and NGO culture.
NetSquared has major backers, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft
How can Commercial Activity also benefit NGO Sector
What about adwords support? Skepticsim of giving one company all the cards. This is still developing
Need deeper partnership, (sometimes ads are inappropriate)
Harvard Social Enterprise Conference http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/
http://xigi.net is creating a commons and vocabulary in an attempt to "mash up" capital and SocialGood.
What about rating and reputation?
There is a big diff between human edited lists, and machine generated lists. What about a ratings and review system?
What about the Money?
nonprofits are often technically deficit, underfunded always if they have $4 or $4m. Giving them money is often not the solution.
also, insitutionalized begging is broken. Discussion of
How can NP Management find Info
What can benefit a NP to find oput more about its mission area? News feeds?
What about a 'Day' to create a format to share developments.
OneWebDay? (http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/9/22/1249929.html)
SocialGood camp?
SalesForce Offer
http://SalesForce.com/foundation/ offers free licensing to qualified organizations. HomelessConnect in SF as example.
Requests for Companies
Play nice with Open Source, develop APIs with follow up ie Developer Relations. Do some case studies and publish them.
Inofrmational page with use studies
Document management is huge!
Forms and form submit is not done yet! Adobe says FormsMgr
Polics Online Conference GWV March 7,8
http://www.agros.org http://www.ning.com http://labs.adobe.com http://netsquared.org
google Seth godin funnel http://www.fundrace.com http://xigi.net http://appexchange.com
Contacts
ZachTumin rzt _at pipeline ? RobinSloan robin _at robinsloan com KieranLal kieran _at civicspacelabs org PeterKaminski peterkaminski com kaminski _at istori com SaraSpalding sspalding _at adobe com JohnAdams jxadams _at ualr edu BillyBicket billy _at computmentor org TimBishop tim _at timbishop com KaarliTasso kaarli _at gmail com ZackBrailer zack _at refineandfocus com KaliyaHamlin kaliya _at kaliyasblogs com
other Art Insititute of Chicago
Chagall stained glass windows
Laptop Stickers!
To-do’s:
1. ask mashupcamp companies to donate free product for npo’s
