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Joe Solomon, Guest Post: What's the Right Offline Event for Your Organization's Online Community?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Courtesy of Joe Solomon.

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For tech to develop in emerging economies, the first obstacle is trust

The Next Web

In many emerging economies capitalism has slowly developed out of the shadows of communism, feudalism or dictator-style mashup economies, and its current incarnations haven’t entirely shaken themselves of the dusty vestiges of the past. The distrust that haunts both the Tanzanian and Ecuadorian tech scenes is not without precedent.

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! is developing systems to recognize and reward those who are having the most impact both online and offline. s current offline business model hasn’t transferred to the online environment.

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Google details its latest big Android feature drop

The Verge

Gboard is also being updated with 2,000 additional emoji mashups, which combine two existing emoji into stickers that can be posted across a variety of messaging apps and online services. Live Transcribe’s offline feature. Live Transcribe is available across all Android phones and comes pre-installed on Pixel and Samsung phones.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. I’d love for you to share your ideas, answers, questions, and thoughts below - but if you have the conversation offline, in your organization, and with your friends, well, that works for me, too!

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The Painting Journalist: Witness To Peace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had the great pleasure to meet many kindred spirits and interesting people via my blog who I did not know offline or may have never connected. I think of her work as a mashup between an extremely talented court room artist, journalist, social activist and philanthropist.

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Noodling Around Change Management and Social Media Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a mashup with social media framing. For example, if an organization does work online with board can it be effective or I used to say, "a dysfunctional board offline is dysfunctional online." I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.