Social Media Club, the amazing international association started by Chris Heuer and friends, is starting a chapter in Vancouver, and I have the great pleasure and honor of leading the charge on this one.
Social Media Club’s main purpose is sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media. This facilitation of a global conversation about building an organization and a community where the many diverse groups of people who care about social media can come together to discover, connect, share, and learn.
There are already a very large handful of social media …read more

This is a follow-up post for the presentation Lisa Thomas-Tench gave this evening at Net Tuesday. Lisa has worked with community and capacity building organizations around the world and traveled to Africa last year to build schools and work in the communities.
The main thing that Lisa wanted to make sure came across during her presentation was that online supportive international projects are subject to the same challenges as standard, off-line charitable donations. Many people don’t realize this, and tend to assume that because it’s online, it’s going to be easier.
There is an absolute explosion of social networking for social causes …read more