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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 win [...]

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 [...]

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 Pages, [...]

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 a [...]

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 [...]