How Social Media Enhances Events presentation

As a result of two major Ashoka events this year I’ve been thinking a lot about how social media can enhance, leverage, expand and capture the content of events. Tech4Society and the Ashoka Future Forum were the most social media-enabled events Ashoka has yet run and many leassons were learned as a result. I co-hosted [...]

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Announcing what comes next

A couple of weeks ago I announced that I was departing Ashoka to move to San Francisco and that as such I was looking for the next opportunity to challenge myself and create positive social change. Today I am very pleased to announced that I will be taking up the position of Senior Social Media [...]

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Reflecting on SOBcon

I spent this past weekend at SOBcon in Chicago. SOBcon stands for Successful and Outstanding Blog Conference and is an annual gathering of bloggers founded by Liz Strauss of successful-blog.com and Terry Starbucker of Ramblings of a Glass Half Full. I was lucky enough to be invited to represent Ashoka as one of the citizen sector [...]

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Being comfortable with uncertainty

When it was recently announced I was leaving Ashoka most people assumed I had something specific lined up, that I would only make this announcement, this leap, if I knew exactly where I was landing, that I would land on my feet. But I don’t, and I feel okay about that. Humans are hardwired to [...]

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Looking for the next challenge

It’s official: I’m moving on from Ashoka. Ashoka doesn’t usually promote specific roles but today we announced that we are looking for a new Social and Digital Marketing Manager. I’ve had an amazing time building the social media program at Ashoka. During this time our Twitter account has gone from zero to 315,000 followers, we [...]

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#4Change Chat wrap-up: How Social Media Can Enhance Events

Cross-posted from the 4Change blog: On March 18 the #4Change Twitter Chat took on the topic of ‘How Social Media Can Enhance Events.’ This topic seemed particularly apropos with the chat taking place immediately after the annual SXSW takeover of Twitter, and soon before the Non-profit Technology Conference and Skoll World Forum, two other conferences [...]

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Stories of Change 2: Youth Making a Difference

Been meaning to post this for awhile, it’s the second in the Stories of Change series of eBooks I’m developing at Ashoka. This one is made up of interviews with youth leaders involved in Ashoka’s Youth Venture program. I hope you enjoy it!

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The power of suggestion

On Friday last week Twitter added a collection of non-profit accounts to their Suggested Users list, seeming to focus on social entrepreneurship, including both organizations and individuals. These new Suggested Users included: Social Edge Skoll Foundation Kjerstin Erickson (founder of FORGE) Jacqueline Novogratz (founder of Acumen Fund) Acumen Fund Matt Flannery (founder of Kiva) Kiva [...]

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Ashoka’s first eBook – Stories of Change: Fellows and their Journeys

I just hit upload on the first of a new series of eBooks I’ve been working on at Ashoka. I’ve wanted for some time to profile the amazing stories in the Ashoka network in new and shareable ways and eBooks are a fun and stylish way to do that. Using Scribd as our primary platform [...]

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