Social media is a wonderful way of connecting with people, the strange this is how I find my relationship with different tools is just like a real world friendship.
I meet a new ‘tool’
I get excited by the ‘new conversations’
I start to use and can’t get enough of the new tool
I then get introduced new tools and new freindships are formed which affect the time I spend with the previous sites.
I keep 2-3 tools close, like trusted friends my blog, my podcast and twitter
With the other social media sites new ones excite, the older ones start to fade when they don’t …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