Blog Profile / Allison Fine
| URL : | http://www.allisonfine.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Industries / NGOs & Nonprofits | |
| Posts on Regator: | 99 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.9 | |
| Archived Since: | May 16, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Can We Prove We’re More Generous Online?
I’m full steam ahead on my new book tentatively titled, Our Biggest Small Towns. The idea is that most of us are living simultaneously in online and on land communities. Living this way is turning out to look and feel like our traditional small towns – only at a much greater scale because of the [...]
Mom Bloggers for Social Good
Jennifer James was a young mom in Richmond, VA who took to blogging to connect with other moms, learn and share. Like millions of other parents have done over the past ten years. But, then, Jennifer noticed that a lot of the issues her fellow moms were talking about were causes like hunger and poverty. [...]
Prisoners Yelping
I’m back from my blogging sabbatical! Got all refreshed and then saw this story about prisoners using Yelp to rate their prisons. I can’t sit on the sidelines when that’s happening!
Prisoners, family members, lawyers and others are using Yelp to rate the facilities. [Am I the only one surprised that prisoners have access to the [...]
Blogging Sabbatical
I have been considering taking a sabbatical from blogging so that I can concentrate on finishing a new book proposal. To help figure this out I went to my Nonprofit Social Media Group on Facebook and asked the question of whether this was a good idea or not. Lots of great, supportive, responses from folks [...]
Bringing the Professional and Private Together
The question I am most asked by groups of professionals born before the Internet was popularized is, “How do I separate my professional and personal lives online?” In other words, where’s the dividing line and how high can I put up the wall? I asked Debra Askanase, the brains behind Community 2.0 to talk about [...]
A Delegation of Russian Angels
I had the privilege of being invited by the State Department to speak to a delegation of Russian NGO workers yesterday. We throw around the word, “privilege”, a lot, but in this case, both to represent the United States as an agent of the State Department, and to talk to such wonderful people from Russia [...]
Building Fiercely Loyal Communities
I love the idea of communities as being both fierce and loyal. Naturally, when I read Debra Askanase’s post interviewing Sarah Robinson’s book, Fierce Loyalty: Unlocking the DNA of Wildly Successful Communities, I had to have the book and invite Sarah to be my guest on this month’s Social Good podcast! Sarah has years of experience [...]
Crowdsourcing Followship
This Friday I am speaking at the Youth Engagement Conference sponsored by the Union of Reform Judaism. My topic is Followship. If you haven’t the term before it’s because I just made it up! Here’s the basic idea. Leadership in a flat, side-to-side environment has to have equal parts followership and leadership. It can’t just be [...]
What’s Really Wrong with the Boy Scouts
There’s been much ado about the Boy Scout’s potentially overturning its policy of admitting gay scouts and scout leaders. The executive committee took the very brave position today of pushing the decision off until their annual meeting in May. It’s complicated, they said. Readers of this blog have probably already inferred my reaction to a [...]
The Good and the Ugly of Mapping Apps
Mapping software is changing the way we view and engage in the world. In fact, mapping software has become so prevalent and important, that beware the executive who screws one up, you’re likely to lose your job! Two recent uses of mapping software have clearly illustrated the wonderful civic possibilities, and the fatal flaws, of [...]
Which Way is Social Fundraising Going?
A few weeks ago I was asked about fundraising through social media channels (not the Donate Now button on your website, but giving through Facebook, Twitter, etc.) The questioner was a skeptic, her question really was: isn’t all the hype about giving on Facebook just a bunch of hooey since it’s such a small slice [...]
6 Degrees of Separation Experiment
The idea that we are all connected to one another by 6 degrees of separation has become ingrained in our public consciousness. And it has been proven, and re-proven, scientifically first in the 1960s by Dr. Stanley Miligram in what he called the Small World Experiment whereby letters mailed from one social contact to another, [...]
#Giving Tuesday Reflections
On this month’s Social Good podcast, Henry Timms, the deputy executive director of the Jewish community center 92nd Street Y in Manhattan and the originator of the idea for #Giving Tuesday, shares his reflections on the phenomenally successful first year of the event. Here are a few of my takeaways from our conversation: There was a lot [...]
More #GivingTuesday Than GivingTuesdaytm
Yesterday was #GivingTuesday, a phenomenal, viral event to spur donations and volunteerism for causes to rival Black Friday and Cyber Monday. (BTW, all those for corporate marketing gurus couldn’t think of better names than those? Why is a day dedicated to shopping “Black”? And Cyber Monday sounds like the invasion of the Borg.) Giving Tuesday didn’t [...]
Vote for Me For President of LinkedIn!
For all of you having election withdrawal, I’d like to announce my candidacy for President of LinkedIn. Free cake for everyone! Debra’s post a few weeks ago about endorsements on LinkedIn got me thinking about the site’s fundamental purpose. I noticed something curious recently, when I talk about the maturation of the social media toolset for [...]
When Bad Things Happen to Good Orgs Online
This month’s Social Good podcast is a conversation with Allyson Kapin about how to deal with a crisis that may erupt online. Allyson has great expertise in this area (even if she spells her name wrong!) as the founder of Rad Campaign, the chief evangelist for Women Who Tech and a book to be published [...]
The Networked Nonprofit: A Prequel
I have had the privilege of serving as president of my congregation, Temple Beth Abraham (take a peek at our brand new, gorgeous sanctuary!), for the last two and a half years. It has been a fascinating, at times exhausting, but overall very fulfilling endeavor. I learned that instead of using The Networked Nonprofit as [...]
2012 Voting Resources: Open Secrets
In the first election since the Supreme Court opened the floodgates of campaign money, Open Secrets is more important than ever. This site is the most comprehensive and best organized website tracking where and how campaign money is flowing. This year it’s also tracking the avalanche of “independent” expenditures, all that PAC money paying for [...]
2012 Voting Resources: Vote411.org
The grandma of online voting resources is Vote411.org from the League of Women Voters (frankly, I’d be a fan of anything that combines two of my favorite subjects: women and voting – just add chocolate to it and it would be a perfect trifecta!) The League has hosted Vote11 for several years and keeps adding new [...]
Voter Tools and Resources for 2012: Political Ad Sleuth
In the three weeks from now until Election Day, I’m going to focus on great online tools and resources for voters. I will be highlighted tools and sites that provide information on candidates and their positions, enables people to vote by finding their polling places, how to register in same-day registration states, and any other [...]