Charity Social Networking Efforts and the Latest Madoff Victims: Thursday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
August 13, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- An academic debate program at New York University is the latest charity victim of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, notes Gawker, the gossip blog.
- A new “wiki“—an online dictionary that users can edit—about nonprofit evaluation efforts has been created by FSG Social Impact Advisors, a donor consultant group in Boston.
- The reasons behind the growing number of attacks on aid workers in Africa are explored in a blog post on AlertNet, a Web site operated by Reuters that covers humanitarian emergencies.
- Adam Hirsch, chief operating officer at the popular Web site Mashable, outlines the agenda for his site’s Social Good Conference in New York.
- Danielle Brigida, who works on Internet outreach efforts at the National Wildlife Federation, discussed how the organization uses social-networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to advance its mission, in an interview at Socialbrite. Below is a video that accompanied the post.
