Link Love: Gratitude Challenge, Finding Your Calling, NY Oysters, and Kale Salad

A round-up of articles and posts that caught my eye recently:

Environment/Green

• Time to Bring Back New York's Oysters by Kieran Mulvaney on Discovery News
• Los Angeles Adopts Meatless Mondays by Ali Berman on Ecorazzi
  

Food

• My Go-To Kale Salad by Angela on Oh She Glows  
  

Do-Gooding  

• A New Day to Build Community: Give Time on Giving Tuesday by Shari Ilsen on Engaging Volunteers
• A Gratitude Challenge by Tiffany Han on Tiffany Han Coaching

Communication and Technology

• Why Your Nonprofit Should Be a Big Listener by Rachel Weidinger on Beth's Blog
• The Fact That Changed Everything: Jeff Berk and Participant Media on GOOD
  

Big Visioning    

• 20 Ways to Find Your Calling  by Jessica Hagy on Forbes.com 
• Announcing: Tranquility du Jour Daybook by Kimberly Wilson on Tranquility du Jour
• Keeping a Prayer Journal by Jamie Ridler on Jamie Ridler Studios
• Unfurling with Gabriela Masala on Amy Kessel's blog

Full disclosure: I'm connected personally, or professionally to many of the individuals and organizations highlighted in this post.

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Link Love: Food, Do-Gooding, Tech, Politics and Big Vision

A round-up of articles, events, videos and products that caught my eye recently:

Do-Gooding

• Hurricane Sandy: How We're Helping and How You Can Help on the Airbnb blog 

Food

• Fall Detox Salad + Hurricane Sandy Fundraiser on Oh She Glows
• 8 Ways to Get + Stay Well During Cold Season by Meg Worden
• Wisdom Notes for a Well-Fed Holiday by Rachel Cole

Communication and Technology

• The Power of a Woman with a Meme on hbr.org (Harvard Business Review) by Morra Aarons-Mele

Politics

• Marianne Williamson presents Sister Giant (November 10-11, 2012)
• Obama thanks everyone who helped to build his campaign (Watch till at least minute 3:30) 

 

Big Vision  

• What Inner Wisdom Are You Ignoring Right Now? on Readings and Writings

Full disclosure: I'm connected personally, or professionally to many of the  individuals and organizations highlighted in this post.

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Slow Holidays, GoodGuide iPhone app and Nicholas Kristof's Advice for Saving the World

November was a good month for press. The WE Volunteer blog I write for, Do Good, Feel Good, was mentioned in WSJ.com's Blog Watch (thanks Beckey Bright!), and Kimberly Wilson interviewed me for the Tranquility du Jour Podcast (thanks, Kimberly!).

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I've published 12 new WE Volunteer posts since the last Have Fun Do Good Link Love:

• Six Holiday Volunteering Ideas
• WE Volunteer Twitter Giveaway: 29 Gifts by Cami Walker
• Donate Your Gently Used Items to Nonprofits
• Volunteering for Our Planet: How Are You Volunteering for the Environment?
• Share Your WE Volunteering Story
• Microvolunteer in Minutes
• What Blogs and Sites About Volunteering Do You Recommend?
• November 21st is Family Volunteer Day
• Girl Scouts of the USA: WE Volunteer Charity of the Month
• Mission Serve Launches on Veteran's Day + Veteran Volunteer Opportunities
• 5 Tips for Volunteering in Schools
• Discounts on LUSH Cosmetics, Ladies Home Journal, Essence Magazine and Step Up Women's Network for WE Volunteers!

And 3 new posts on the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog:

• Handmade Nation: Watch It, Gift It, Love It!
• Plan Your 2010: Craft Inc. and Craft Inc. Business Planner
• Facebook Page Tips for Cultural Entrepreneurs

And 2 new posts on The Extraordinaries blog:

• Chat with an Extraordinary: Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue
• Chat with an Extraordinary: Nathan Hand of Christel House

And in the most recent episode of the Be Bold Podcast I chatted with Jobs for Change blogger and NOI Program Assistant, Anne Marie Ashburn.




LINK LOVE

• *GREAT* article: Nicholas Kristof's Advice for Saving the World
  
  
• Top Ten Ideas to Slow Down this Holiday Season
  
  
• Green Career Webinar December 17th (only $5!)
  
  
• Submit a text or video question for world climate leaders in the live CNN/YouTube debate.
  
  
• GoodGuide iPhone app + barcode scanning.
  
  
• How Blogging Has Changed Over The Last 3 Years

Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

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This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones, the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group.


I talked with Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, this month for the Arts and Healing Network's podcast:

• The Artist's Way Every Day: A Chat with author, Julia Cameron

I have 3 new posts up on the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog:

• Social Media Resources and Inspiration for Independent Filmmakers
• Kickstarter: Funding Platform for Artists, Designers, Filmmakers, Musicians, Journalists, Inventors, Explorers . . .
• Six Sudsy Soapmaker Blogs

And 2 interviews on The Extraordinaries blog:

• Chat with an Extraordinary: Lauren Bacon of Raised Eyebrow Web Studio
• Chat with an Extraordinary: Jimmy Santosa of Applied Materials

And 6 news posts on the WE Volunteer blog:

• Love Making Videos? Become a YouTube Video Volunteer
• Is Volunteering Good for Your Health?
• 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
• Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself
• Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge
• Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter

Whew! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. Early registration deadline is Nov. 1st.

Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Ecorazzi.

Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine.

We Inspire Grant: One year of creative services to one U.S. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000).

If you missed my friend Cami Walker of 29 Gifts on the Today Show, you can watch it online. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th.

19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog.

10 Tips for an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Facebook Fan Page by Beth Kanter on BlogHer.

7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog

Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared.

20 Twitter Hashtags for Social Entrepreneurs, Nonprofits and Activists on SocialEarth.

THE BIG LIST of social entrepreneurs on Twitter.

Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Volunteerism on TV, Theatres Using Social Media & Tons of Contests

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I'll be speaking about podcasting at the Community Technology Network Meetup in San Francisco on October 22nd.

I have 3 new posts up on WE tv's WE Volunteer blog:

• 60+ Network TV Shows Highlight Volunteerism Oct. 19-25
• Make a Difference Day: October 24th
• Step Up Women's Network: WE Volunteer Charity of the Month

And 1 new post on the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog:
5 Ways Theatres Can Use Social Media



LINK LOVE

• Did you know that now you don't need an iPhone to micro-volunteer with The Extraordinaries? Check it out at www.beextra.org/widget.
  
  
• Share your service hero story. It might be featured during a week of volunteer and service related television programming happening October 19-25th as part of the Entertainment Industry Foundation's iParticipate initiative.
  
  
• To celebrate EIF's iParticipate initiative, The Chronicle of Philanthropy's VolunTV Challenge is inviting individuals and charity organizations to think of ideas for how volunteerism could be incorporated into their favorite TV shows. Send in your story pitches in writing or video. You could win a $5,000 or $2,500 donation in your name to the charity of your choice.
  
  
• Enter the 2009 America's Giving Challenge. You could win a donation of up to $50,000 for your favorite cause.
  
  
• Nominate and vote for your favorite Changemaker on Change.org.
  
  
• Join DonorsChoose's 2009 Social Media Challenge to raise money for education.

Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Right Brain Business Plan, Blog Action Day, and Oprah

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Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?):

6 posts on WEtv's WE Volunteer blog:

• ChipIn Can Help You Collect Money for Causes You Care About
• MealBaby Makes Cooking for Friends in Need Easy
• The Minerva Awards: 4 Women with Legacies of Service
• The View Launches "America's Ultimate Volunteer Search"
• Educate and Learn: Volunteer at a Museum
• Support Our Troops: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge

3 posts on the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog:

• The Creative Entrepreneur: A DIY Visual Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real
• Right-Brain Business Plan
• 10 Ways Artists Can Use YouTube to Promote Their Work

MoveOn.org and Crowdsourcing: A Chat with Peter Koechley on The Extraordiaries blog



The 16th episode of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact (I'm the show's host).




4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. Stanfield, ArtBizCoach.com on the Arts and Healing Podcast





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• The October 1st episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show will feature New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, and his wife his wife Sheryl WuDunn talking about their book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
  
• Change.org is hiring bloggers.
• Blog Action Day is October 15th. This year's theme is climate change.
• The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a national competition launching on October 7.
• 77 ways to build community in your neighborhood from Our Blocks.
• How charities harness social media for a social impact from CSMonitor.com
  
• New Craiglist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcasts:
  -Rethinking Back Office Functions
  -Randi Zuckerberg & Marjorie Weingrow
  -Change The World For Ten Bucks
  -Finding Abundance in a Challenging Environment
• Van Jones Breaks Silence On Resignation: 'Nothing But Love For Obama'

Have Fun Do Good Link Love: TED 2010 Fellowships, 9/11 Day of Service, & Indie Bookstores Using Twitter

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I've got 3 new posts up on WE Volunteer:

• Honoring Sen. Ted Kennedy: How Will Your Story of Service Be Told?
• Remember September 11th: Be of Service
• Tuesday's Children: WE Volunteer Charity of the Month

And 1 new post up on the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog (GCCE): How Independent Bookstores Are Using Twitter


The 15th episode of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact is up (I'm the show's host).



Last week I posted a Big Vision Podcast interview with José Corona, the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors. You can listen to it online or download it from iTunes. I'll be publishing the transcript soon here on Have Fun Do Good.

Next month's show will feature an interview with Lisa Witter, co-author of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World.

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Be a Blogger for Change.org! on Jobs for Change

Two new Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcasts:

• Closing All-Star Panel featuring Ami Dar, Jonathan Greenblatt, Rich Harwood, Arianna Huffington, Shirley Sagawa, Steve Wright, and guest moderator Michael Krasny
• Advocacy and Lobbying 101 - Nonprofits and Public Policy: Action Needed Now with Kevin Hickey, Nayantara Mehta, Sheila Warren

Eight Steps to Community Engagement on the WiserEarth Blog

5 Fun and Fabulous Twitter Tools for Nonprofit Organizations and Activists on Nonprofits 2.0 - Change.org

September 9: Facebook Causes Webinar for Nonprofits with Susan Gordon, Causes Nonprofit Coordinator.

September 14-21: Mozilla Service Week

September 16 & 17, 2009: Online Nonprofit Technology Conference: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission

September 25 (deadline) Applications are being accepted for the TED 2010 Fellowship program

September 30 (deadline) Enter the GreatNonprofits' Youth Thrive Awards 2009

Have Fun Do Good Link Love: WeAreMedia Webinar, Pottery Bloggers & Cupcakes in Mason Jars

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I'm co-presenting with Michael Hoffman of See3 Communications about "storytelling" during the WeAreMedia Webinar September 23rd. I'll be talking about how nonprofits can use blogs to tell their stories, and Michael will be talking about how nonprofits can use video. For more information, and to register go to www.wearemedia.org.

I've got 2 new posts up on WE Volunteer:

• HopePhones.org: Donate Your Cell Phone; Help a Medical Clinic
• September is Hunger Action Month: Getting Involved + Feeding America

I've also started writing for a new blog for the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship (full disclosure: my Dad is the Co-Founder). My newest post for them is 7 Ways Potters Can Use Blogs.



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A new Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp podcast is up How to Approach a Foundation

Encourage volunteering from your site by downloading VolunteerMatch's SearchLite widget

If you were inspired by last Sunday's New York Times magazine, check out this list of Organizations Supporting Women in Developing Countries by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn.

I liked this guest post on Beth's Blog by Rebecca Krause, How Can Artists Inspire Service in Community?

Great list of Hunger Twitterers on Tyson Hunger Relief

New Organizing Institute is putting on a New Media Training for Nonprofits in San Francisco Oct 5th and 6th.


And just for fun: How to Ship Cupcakes in Mason Jars on CakeSpy!

Have Fun Do Good Link Love: 40th B'day, Power to the Peaceful, Twittering about Volunteering

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Yesterday I turned 40, and Have Fun Do Good turned 4.

A big thanks to everyone who donated to my Birthday Wish on Facebook. You surpassed my goal of raising $400 for Women for Women International and raised $580!

I've got two new posts up on WE Volunteer:

• 21 Twitter Feeds About Volunteering
• Volunteer on Vacation in Hawaii

Episode 14 of the Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact with Lara Galinsky of Echoing Green is up. I'm the host (:

LINK LOVE

New Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp podcast is up, Real Time Strategic Planning with David La Piana.

6 Free or Cheap Web Tools to Schedule Volunteers via the Wild Apricot Blog

Enter to Win a DVD of the American Experience series, We Shall Remain. This was an amazing program about Native American history which I highly recommend.

The Power to the Peaceful Festival is looking for volunteers. Performers include Michael Franti and Spearhead, Sly & Robbie, Cherine Anderson, Vieux Farka Toure', Sellassie, Truth Universal, and the Aguas Da Bahia Drum & Dance Ensemble.

Apply for a Travelocity's Change Ambassadors Grant. "This grant will fund up to $5000 for the transportation to, as well as the cost of, any trip organized by one of our volunteer travel provider partners for individuals or groups deemed worthy based on the merit of their applications (including financial circumstances) and their ability to meet the grant requirements."

Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Facebook Birthday Wish, Special Olympics & 1 Million Bones

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My WE Volunteer posts this week:

• Have You Volunteered with the Special Olympics?
• Join WE Volunteer on Facebook

I've raised $220 of my $400 goal for Women for Women International using the Causes Birthday Wish application on Facebook.

I'm hoping I can raise the remaining $180 by August 19th. Click here to view my Birthday Wish (:





LINK LOVE

Podcast recording of How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius from Craigslist Nonprofit BootCamp with Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog and Susan Gordon of Causes is up.

10 Marketing Realities Nonprofits Need to Accept to Succeed on Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications Blog

Making sense of Webinars on the WiserEarth Blog

Global Fund for Women has a new blog!

August 19 New Organizing Institute Webinar: Moving from online operations to online campaigning with Michael Silberman, of EchoDitto.

August 28 in NYC: Mashable’s Social Good Conference

The Extraordinaries is accepting pilot partner organizations to join the micro-volunteering movement.

One Million Bones - Call to Artists and Activists: "One Million Bones is a fundraising art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims killed or displaced by ongoing genocides occurring on our watch."

The woman who created it, Naomi Natale, is a TED Fellow and seems pretty amazing.

Have Fun Do Good Link Love: We Volunteer, Virtual Nonprofit Tech Conference, National Parks and More!

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I started a new blogging gig this week for Do Good, Feel Good, the blog of WE tv's We Volunteer Campaign. This week's posts were: 5 Tips to Help You Find Time to Volunteer and Do Good with Ladies Home Journal.

Last week I mentioned that I'm speaking about how artists can use social media to market their business on Saturday, August 8th at the Artists Building their Business seminar in Santa Fe, NM. I've posted my PowerPoint, Using Social Media to Build Your Art Business on SlideShare.


LINK LOVE

NTEN's Online Nonprofit Technology Conference: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission Sept. 16 & 17, 2009

Wild Apricot's 100 Online Tools for Non-Profits

Smart-phone app lets you do good deeds in your spare time in The Christian Science Monitor.

Video from Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp 09: Smarter Service in a Web 2.0 World

The National Parks: America's Best Idea, a film by Ken Burns.

Top Ten Best National Parks You Don't Know About from The Huffington Post

And 'cause I've been writing a lot of letters lately and it is a sweet gift idea, What you need in your "Traveling Mail Art Kit" from the new book Good Mail Day on Craftside.