Beth's Blog: Nonprofits and Social Media

Vote now for video contest on Immigrant Rights

[Via Will Coley ...My *funny* video is a finalist in this contest (#3) and I'd love to get more folks to see it and the other entries. The deadline for voting is March 31. Thanks for your great work! ]

The Movement Vision Lab Video Contest — Cast Your Vote!

The Movement Vision Lab received a dozen entries in their first ever video contest.  And now it's your turn to weigh in and tell them which ones you like most, as they decide which to award the $1000 prize to.

The Movement Vision Lab staff has winnowed down the entries to their top five.  Check them out below --- and log-in to the Movement Vision Lab and post a comment on this page saying which video you like most and why.  OR you can vote directly on the You Tube pages via the links.  The comment period will last two weeks, and then they'll announce the winner!  So tell them what you think today!

Remember, the contest is about Immigration and Community Values.  Vote for the video that you think best tells America that, immigrants and citizens alike, we're all in it together!

So, without further ado, the finalists (in no particular order) CLICK HERE: http://www.movementvisionlab.org/blog/your-votes-community-values-immigration-video-contest

An Act of Reciprocity got Cisco

The good folks at Cisco supported the NTEN/NTC Day of Service in New Orleans (read about it).  So when their PR agency asked me to blog about this event, it got high on my random acts of kindness list.

Join Cisco for a fascinating 60-minute video Webcast that reveals how wikis, blogs, social networking, and other Web 2.0 applications are creating a "mass collaboration" paradigm.

Get valuable insights and practical game plans from the thought leaders in Web 2.0 applications, including:

Don Tapscott, coauthor of "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester Research's Senior Analyst for Social Computing

Robert Scoble, new Managing Director of FastCompany.TV and author of "How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk to Customers"

The Webcast airs April 3rd, 2008 at 10am PST.  Click here for more information.

 

Help Caminos Rebuild!

Via my colleague Rachel Weidinger ..

Staff of this org are friends of mine (and neighbors)...any help/ coverage/ support of this devastating fire at a digital divide-bridging nonprofit on Valencia Monday night would rock.  I donated $100 and plan to donate more. 
Caminos, when they have a classroom, provides tech training to low-income Latina immigrants--and only for women. Students often start not knowing how to turn on a computer, and end up with assorted Microsoft Certifications, or starting design businesses.  Serious learning goes on here, and all in Spanish,

Twitter had great coverage of the fire as it happened thanks to density of Twitter users in the Mission, but I only learned today that Caminos was destroyed..they lost everything.

The fire yesterday evening ravaged               our building. We walked into our classrooms to find that all of               our 40 computers in the computer lab where rendered unusable due               to the extensive water damage. We will have to replace all of our               computer equipment, which will be costly for CAMINOS. Our server               alone was $3,500! CAMINOS will also have to find a temporary home               from where to continue our computer training and work force development.

Set up this Facebook Cause for the cool kids: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/causes/73459
Donations accepted most directly at Paypal here: http://tinyurl.com/29axh9
 
Thank you for any support you can lend.  I want Laura and Petra to know they're not alone.  Laura, the Executive Director of Caminos is cc'd above, as is Alfredo Pedroza in the Mayor's Office. They can provide additional details, if you need them.