A Continuing Debate Over Donating Goods Overseas; Plus More: Friday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
April 30, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- On her Good Intentions Are Not Enough blog, Saundra Schimmelpfennig writes about the problem of donating goods overseas, and about the “1 Million Shirts” campaign. She has gathered blog posts on the impact of the debate about the campaign going viral on the Web, as well as posts from professional aid workers who are weighing in on what they think about the campaign and about donating goods for relief efforts. Ms. Schimmelpfennig has worked on tsunami recovery efforts in Thailand.
- On her blog, Katya Andresen, chief operating officer at Network for Good, discusses a recent study by M+R that offers suggestions on how to deploy and evaluate online campaigns.
- Charities owe it to their supporters to think very carefully about what personal information they collect from donors, how long they keep the data, and how best to protect it, Jake Marcinko, information security manager at Blackbaud, writes on the Nonprofit Technology Network’s blog.
- Arts organizations are making creative use of social-networking tools, including FourSquare, writes Beth Kanter, a social-media expert, on her blog.
- User testing doesn’t have to be expensive, but it can be crucial to a campaign’s effectiveness, Kira Marchenese, director of Internet communications at the Environmental Defense Fund, writes on her blog.
