What bank should we use for our Non Profit?
Hey All. Easy question for you today. I am in the process of starting my own non profit around Lights.Camera.Help. and we need some help. What bank should we use? What bank does your non profit use? What’s important for us to look for in a bank? The first 5 responses will win a prize from our non profit prize closet.
Let me know in the comments below!
What the heck is a CryptoZoo? And how does it help my heart?
Run with the cryptids, and you may run faster and weirder than you ever thought possible. It’s all part of a new game called CryptoZoo.
CryptoZoo, commissioned by the American Heart Association, is a free, non-commercial game that combines real-world physical activity with gaming and social media. The idea is to make physical activity fun so more people will participate.
“People obey the principle of inertia; a body at rest tends to remain at rest, and a body in motion (starting to exercise) often stays with it,” said Dr. Barry Franklin, AHA Spokesperson and Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Laboratories at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. “That’s the beauty of CryptoZoo, it gets people moving, and many will continue the habit.”
CryptoZoo is currently in the proof-of-concept stage and will be demonstrated in several cities. For now, the intent is to let the game gain popularity through viral means. A formal launch of CryptoZoo will be held at a later date, once the game has been tested, evaluated and updated as needed.
To play this game, a player will enter a secret world of strange, fast-moving creatures and follow a set of strange animal tracks, either as an individual or part of a pack. Players use energy and strategy in tracking and in the process learn how to run with the most mysterious array of creatures on the planet. During the chase they bounce like springboras, crouch-run like ninja rabbits, spin like swingdogs and much more. Thirteen species have been identified so far.
Players can meet up with other packs and challenge them to out-chase the cryptids. Participants can become a cryptid spotter and add cryptid discoveries to the online network. They can even organize a CryptoZoo chase in their own city.
CryptoZoo was created for the American Heart Association by game designer Jane McGonigal.
“Games – especially when they get you moving in the real world – can be good for you.” said McGonigal. “The more we play together, the better.”
For more information, go to www.cryptozoo.heart.org.
American Cancer Society High Plains Social Media Guidelines
Launch and learn right? These are our Social Media Guidelines for staff here in the High Plains Division of the American Cancer Society. We represent 7 states here in the US. Take a look and let us know what you think. The first 4 people to comment will win prizes. Feel free to adopt and modify them for your org just make sure you give us some credit and link love!
As American Cancer Society employees, we all have the opportunity to support our organization in many ways, and social media networks are a growing avenue for this. Many of you belong to social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIN where the American Cancer Society already has a strong presence.
We encourage you to interact and be a part of these communities. As you are participating in your social networks, please consider the following ideas on how you can represent the American Cancer Society in a social media environment and ways that you can appropriately incorporate the Society into your postings.
Blogs, wikis, and other forms of online discourse are individual interactions, not company communications. Use common sense and be mindful that what you write will be public for a long time.
Identify yourself—name and, when relevant, your role at the American Cancer Society—when you post something about the American Cancer Society or Society-related matters. You must make it clear that you are speaking for yourself and not on behalf of the Society. Do Not post cancer content – link your readers back to cancer.org.
If you publish a blog or post to a blog outside of the Society, and it has something to do with the work you do or subjects associated with the Society, use a disclaimer such as this: “The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent American Cancer Society’s positions, strategies, or opinions.”
Respect copyright, fair use, and financial disclosure laws.
Do not provide the Society’s or another’s confidential or other proprietary information. Ask permission to publish or report on conversations that are meant to be private or internal to the American Cancer Society.
Don’t cite or reference clients, partners , volunteers, or vendors without their approval.
Respect your audience. Don’t use ethnic slurs, personal insults, obscenity, etc., and show proper consideration for others’ privacy and for topics that may be considered objectionable or inflammatory—such as politics and religion.
Find out who is researching the topic or blogging on the topic and cite them.
Don’t pick fights, be the first to correct your own mistakes, and don’t alter previous posts without indicating that you have done so.
Add value. Provide worthwhile information and perspective.
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City of Austin Revolution
I was lucky enough and honored to get invited to a special City of Austin meeting about the city’s Web Site. You see we are having some issues with it. In fact this was not your average City committee meeting with the council facing the usual number of crackpots, deadlocking over issues and it airing on Channel 6. What made me happy as well as the number of non profit folks in the room. Who better to ask about managing tech on a budget?
This was a SWAT team style surgical strike at where the Web Site needs to go in the next year. As one of the city employees said in the meeting “This is not a re-design. This is a re-imagining of what a city should give it’s citizens”.
I will take it a step further and say it’s a Revolution. It’s time to take one of the leading tech and art cities in the nation and make her shine. Here is a quick summary of my favorite ideas from the meeting.
1) Ask the Youth. Get the AISD involved. Who will be using the City’s Web Site 5 years from now? They will be. Let’s get their thoughts.
2) Let’s build first and ask questions soon. Let’s go get a sandbox mockup of what people want. Whether it’s in Drupal or Powerpoint or in a .PSD file. That way when the RFP (request for project) goes out to Web Dev firms we can tell them “Build This” or “Make this come alive”.
3) Let’s crowd source this monster. Just like the videos on SharingHope.tv. Let’s give the people a voice. Go check out what one of my friend’s is doing with OpenAustin. OpenAustin is a community-based effort to crowd source the requirements and development for the new City of Austin web site using local software developers, marketing experts, and graphic designers that have been displaced from their jobs due to the current economic downturn. In my opinon this will produce a superior Web site for the citizens of Austin at a fraction of the cost of the city’s lowest bid.
What do you think?
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