Community Organizer 2.0

How important are bloggers to online social media campaigns? What is the value bloggers bring, and how should campaigns best use bloggers before and during their social media campaigns? In this blog post, I consider how four social media campaigns used blogger influence during the campaign, and the degrees of effectiveness: a micro finance campaign for Opportunity International, Visible Government’s Beers for Canada, and Tweetsgiving 2008 and 2009.

How do you raise funds for a project with an eBook? In this interview with Jasmin Tragas, who created the eBook Worldshapers, Extraordinary Women Making a Difference to raise funds for a microloan program in the Philippines. In this post, I interview Jasmin about her experience raising funds through the eBook, putting the project together, and lessons learned.