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Love the name of the organization and the title of the event.

Learn about Barrel of Monkeys here (arts education in Chicago). You can find them in Do Good Chicago.

And they need items for their silent auction. The event name? Fancy Schmancy Benefit. Love it!

Awesome free resource for nonprofit web sites: Syndication widget (repost).

All,

The world famous Cyber-Yenta asked me to repost this so that she could clean some things up (she, as I do, thinks faster than she types :-) Enjoy.

Dear ISF Colleagues,

 

Good2gether has blown my mind once again. They are now offering a free syndication widget for nonprofits with static web sites. Take a look at this:

 

<http://good2gether.typepad.com/g2g/2008/11/syndication-widget-boston-partners-for-education.html>

 

Basically, what this means is that if you're a small nonprofit with a web site that you don't (or can't) update very often, Good2gether's widget will enable you to manage up to the minute content about your mission that will be syndicated automatically to your web site. You can go to the widget (which is hosted and administered by Good2gether) and type in news, and it will magically appear on your static web site. Items could include fundraising pitches, volunteering opportunities, workshops, rallies, and news about your organization.

 

If you're not ready to migrate to a content management system for your web site, this is a great intermediate strategy. The Good2gether syndication widget hasn't achieved perfection yet and still needs some tweaks, but it is well worth trying!

 

Disclaimer: Good2gether.com does not pay me to say nice things about them or their syndication widget. I am speaking as a fan.

 

Best regards from Deborah

 

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Cyber-Yenta

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu

www.cyber-yenta.org

Skype: Deborah909

Twitter: Deborah909

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909

Are you in the Boston area? Expect to get a new computer for Xmas?

Then think about donating that older – yet still incredibly useful - PC or laptop (or Mac) to a worth nonprofit. Your used stuff is brand new to a nonprofit and can really help.

Go to Boston Do Good can search for In Kind and add the search term 'computer'. Or just click here – I've done it for you.

Thanksgiving 2009.

For those of us who work at good2gether, we can't, and I mean this, get over the fact that we get to do this every day - to Do Good. It's an amazing thing. When you hear the feedback from the nonprofits about what we're doing, it's really quite humbling.

We have to give thanks to our newspaper partners - by adding a Do Good Channel you're doing important work. You're enabling positive change on a scale never before possible and you're doing it in your local community. You are powering the greater good.

• Do Good Atlanta
• Do Good Boston
• Do Good Chicago
• Do Good Houston
• Do Good Sarasota
• Do Good San Antonio
• Do Good San Francisco
• Do Good Tampa/St. Pete

And to our nonprofit partners - we don't exist without you. Your belief in what we were doing, from the very first day, has enabled us, more to the point, driven us to move forward. Your positive energy and feedback has moved us. Thanks.

Finally, we owe everything to the investors who believed in the vision we had for good2gether. We wouldn't be here today without you.

We have over 3,000 nonprofits in the platform and are up and running in Atlanta, Boston, Houston, San Francisco, and Sarasota, and shortly appearing in Chicago, Tampa, Philadelphia, and San Antonio. And then more and more markets in 2009. Next year we'll be connecting millions of people to tens of thousands of nonprofits - enabling people to Do Good. And given the state of the economy, that's critically important to our nonprofit partners.

Thanks to all for an amazing (so far) 2008. It's going to be a great Thanksgiving.

Five sections. Fifteen links. Do Good!

Check out how Boston.com is rolling out connect2cause widgets. They have them in five highly trafficked sections – how great is that for nonprofits in Boston and the surrounding communities!? Direct links to events, volunteering, in-kind donation needs and more.

Home page (scroll down to the bottom, in the middle)

Lifestyle (on the left rail)

Bill Brett Photo Gallery (on the right rail):

Green Living (on the left rail):

Things To Do (on the left rail):

Now, you're a nonprofit in Boston, tell me again why you're not using this free (did I mention that it's FREE!) service that'll help you reach the millions of people who go to Boston.com each month.

Learn more – take a webinar. They're free, fast, and informative.

Ready to go? Sign up here.

good2gether – Transforming cause into effect.

Awesome free resource for nonprofit web sites: Syndication widget. From the Cyber-Yenta.

Deborah Elizabeth Finn (aka Cyber-Yenta), who does amazing work with nonprofits on technology and social media, just sent around an email to her colleagues on the Information Systems Forum about the good2gether content syndication widget.

Here's her note (reproduced with her approval):

Dear ISF Colleagues,

 

Good2gether has blown my mind once again. They are now offering a free syndication widget for nonprofits with static web sites. Take a look at this:

 

<http://good2gether.typepad.com/g2g/2008/11/syndication-widget-boston-partners-for-education.html>

 

Basically, what this means is that if you're a small nonprofit with a web site that don't (or can't) update very often, Good2gether's widget will enable you to manage up to the minute content about your mission that will be syndicated automatically to your web site. You can go to the widget (which is hosted and administered by Good2gether) and type in news , and it will magically appear on your static web site. Items could include fundraising pitches, volunteering opportunities, workshops, rallies, and news about your organization.

 

If you're not ready to migrate to a content management system for your web site, this is a great intermediate strategy. The Good2gether syndication widget hasn't achieved perfect yet and still needs some tweaks, but it is well worth trying!

 

Disclaimer: Good2gether.com does not pay me to say nice things about them or their syndication widget. I am speaking as a fan.

 

Best regards from Deborah

 

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Cyber-Yenta

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu

www.cyber-yenta.org

Skype: Deborah909

Twitter: Deborah909

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909

More markets. More people doing good.

A change to our launch schedule - Do Good San Antonio goes live in December instead of January.  The Do Good Channel has been up for a while but not linked from MySanAntonio.com - that was originally scheduled for January but they’ve now moved that up to December so that they can start marketing it sooner. 

That’ll give us four launches in December (though Philly will probably be a soft launch).

 

With an open slot in January and St. Louis pushing to move forward we’ve tentatively moved them up to a January launch.  That’ll give us four launches in January and we’ll look to slot someone else in February to fill the slot vacated by St. Louis.

More markets.  More Do Good Channels.  More people doing good - finding nonprofits and getting involved.

If you're a nonprofit and want to learn more, take a webinar.  Or if you're a nonprofit and ready to get started to put the most largest and most powerful network of people ever assembled to Do Good to work for you, sign up here.

At good2gether, we're transforming cause into effect.

Transforming cause into effect.

If you want to know what we're all about - what we care about - this is it.

The above is from today's Boston Globe/Boston.com - read the whole article here.

At good2gether we provide the simple, easy-to-use infrastructure for cause engagement. An easy way for nonprofits to enter their stuff. An easy way for people to find their stuff. An easy way to share that stuff with others.

Events. Programs. In-kind donations. Volunteering.

We put Do Good Channels at newspapers today. But why not Do Good Channels at colleges & universities tomorrow. Why not Do Good Channels at high schools the day after that. And on Facebook. MySpace. And beyond.

Wherever people are online, there'll be Do Good Channels & connect2cause widgets to help them find way to engage. To make a difference. Whether they're young or old or in-between - they'll be able to find ways to make real and important change in the world.

• Do Good Atlanta
• Do Good Boston
• Do Good Chicago
• Do Good Houston
• Do Good Sarasota
• Do Good San Antonio
• Do Good San Francisco

If you're a nonprofit, take a webinar to learn why good2gether and our Do Good Channels are changing everything. And if you already know about what we're doing and are ready to go, click here to sign up and get started.

Our tag line says it all - Transforming cause into effect. That's what we care about. That's why we get up every day and do what we do. We are making it astonishingly simple for nonprofits to find people and for people to find nonprofits - to connect people to cause.

Need flowers in Sarasota, FL?

If you are in the market for flowers Sarasota, make sure you order them from Beneva Flowers! They are sponsoring the Do Good Channel at The Sarasota Herald Tribune. And they tie the sponsorship directly back to their support of charities ('give back to the community'). This is a terrific example of a local business taking advantage of the Do Good Channel to deliver their do good messaging and to promote their business objectives. Nice. And we should all support businesses that help support nonprofits.

 

Launch Partner update.

We added three new Launch Partners this week.

We now have 207 Launch Partners in 27 markets giving us a leveraged reach to over 180,000 local nonprofits.

The list includes 16 national organizations, 177 aggregators in local markets, and 74 local organizations or chapters of national organizations.

New this week:

Launch Partner	Market	Type	Category	Reach	Date Signed
Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Chapter	Youth	1	11/19/2008
YNPN Austin	Austin	Aggregator	Mixed	150	11/19/2008
Florida Association of Nonprofit Organizations	Florida (ALL)	Aggregator	Mixed	700	11/20/2008

 

If you're a nonprofit and wondering how you can benefit from being in a Do Good Channel – take a webinar. It's quick, free and painless, Kris does a terrific job. If you're ready to get going, join now! It's quick, free, and painless, too!

And make sure you check out a Do Good Channel:

• Do Good Atlanta
• Do Good Boston
• Do Good Chicago
• Do Good Houston
• Do Good Sarasota
• Do Good San Francisco
• Do Good Tampa