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by Gradon on August 3, 2009 · View Comments
The Society for Geek Advancement and the Summer of Social Good charity fund (SM4SC is proud to be a partner in the Summer of Social Good) are proud to announce Global Geek Week, including a week-long YouTube video competition. Submit your geek inspired video to the Global Geek Week YouTube Group for the chance to [...]
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by Gradon on August 1, 2009 · View Comments
For a little over a year now, Matt Knell, Meg Fowler and I — as Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) — have been using the social web to raise awareness (and funds!) for charities. In that time, we’ve noticed a sharp increase in social media being used for good causes, whether by organizations or [...]
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by Gradon on July 25, 2009 · View Comments
City Harvest, the New York-based food rescue organization — and beneficiary of the Social Media for Social Change NYC fund raiser this past spring– has a Facebook Cause. With just over 1,000 members and $1,669 raised, it’s not the worst-performing Cause around, nor is it the best. When Facebook recently made changes to the Fan [...]
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by Gradon on July 24, 2009 · View Comments
I’m sitting at JFK airport. My flight from Richmond was delayed for some mechanical reason, so we departed just late enough for me to miss my connecting flight. While I wait for the next flight to Boston, I’m taking advantage of the free wifi JetBlue offers throughout the terminal. I spent the last day and [...]
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Allison Fine, social change blogger and author of “Momentum: Igniting social change in the connected age”, recently wrote a post criticizing Mashable’s Summer of Social Good (full disclosure: SM4SC is a partner in the SoSG) for its claim to be “the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power [...]
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Gradon Tripp is a Boston-based social media, technology and design aficionado that fully immerses himself in the world of social media. He is the founder of DeisgnBoston.org, the largest Boston-based architecture and design blog, and co-founder of Social Media for Social Change, an organization that helps non-profits use the tools of social media to further their causes.
Gradon works as a freelance social media and content strategist. He blogs here about social media and marketing for a variety of industries, and the thoughts here are his (not those of his employers, clients, friends or family).
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