More thoughts on what is next

[Cross posted from SSIR] “Green Shoots” for New Philanthropic Forms I’ve been writing about information as the currency of change for a long time. Everything I have seen in philanthropic innovation in the last two decades is predicated on this simple observation—there are two kinds of philanthropy products: financial products and information products. They used [...]

Videos and podcasts and twitter

As Executive Producer of the Giving Channel on Fora.tv I’m thrilled to point you all over to some of the video coverage of the recent Social Capital Markets (SoCap08) conference. I covered the conference here, here, here, here, and here. The SoCap08 conference gave me the final push I needed to go live on twitter. [...]

Online Giving Marketplaces

Raw notes from the SSIR conference on Online Giving Marketplaces. I’ll (try to) make sense of these for my JustMeans post on Friday. Online giving marketplaces (OGMs) operate in the ecommerce space – these sites (eBay, Amazon, etc) have an average 3% conversion rate (percentage of site visitors that make a purchase). This conversion rate [...]

What’s online got to do with it?

On October 8, the Stanford Social Innovation Review will host a conference on online giving marketplaces. I’m thrilled to see these platforms are finally getting the attention they are due (and also delighted to be moderating one of the panel discussions). Over the years I’ve paid a lot of attention to these sites – which [...]

Online Giving Marketplaces – Stanford October 8

I write about online marketplaces for giving all the time – now the Stanford Social Innovation Review is hosting a conference on the topic. (I’ll be moderating one session) The description and registration materials are online here. Tags: philanthropy, SSIR, marketplaces

Convergence culture

(Warning – unabashed plug follows) Philanthropy2173 is now cross-posting at the Stanford Social Innovation Review, with The Huffington Post, on Facebook, and the Giving Channel. My posts are also “streamed” through to JustMeans homepage and are often picked up (sometimes almost verbatim) at Philanthropy.com/giveandtake You can run, but you can’t hide. Please join me in [...]

Tune in to the future

This audio broadcast is worth a listen. The presentations were wonderful in person. Here’s to SSIR and RPA for getting the word out beyond meeting participants. (Click on the title below to get to the broadcasts.)Finding Philanthropy’s New Sweet SpotYou can now listen to select audio recordings from Finding Philanthropy’s New Sweet Spot: What is [...]

Ask an expert

Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) and the Stanford Social Innovation Review are making available the resource and knowledge of the GSB’s Alumni Consulting Team (ACT). You can submit a management question and get an answer. Access the resource here. Lets hope they make this a customer-feedback enabled site. Tags: nonprofit, stanford, ssir