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Triangle Gives Back - Social Networking Comes to Triangle Nonprofits
Lauren Gardner, COO
I just checked out Triangle Gives Back (the new initiative of the Triangle Community Foundation). It’s definitely an interesting model and very powerful if they can get people to really use it.
It is basically a social networking site for individuals who want to give there “time, talent and treasures” to organizations serving the Triangle area. Organizations create profiles which have some general contact info and allow for easy updates of News, Events, Articles, and Opportunities. Individuals create a profile and choose topics like “education” or “water conservation” that interest them. Individual profiles have feeds which show updates from specific organizations that they choose to “follow” or all organizations that are tagged with their topical interests - basically giving an instant overview of what opportunities and news is occurring of interest across organizations serving the Triangle community.
Like any networking site it’s only as strong as the momentum it gains from users. Do you think this will have enough draw to keep people logging in? Do you think it will be more useful as a tool to connect individuals to organizations or to connect organizations to each other?
If you live in the Triangle it’s worth checking out and while you’re at it you might as well start following us!
February 25, 2009 at 2:43 pm | Our Movement | 2 comments
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February 25th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
This is neat. Sounds like they gave a lot of thought to the site design. Hopefully they have a plan to drive traffic to it. This is the first I’ve heard of it and I look for this stuff.
You nailed it: if they come it can be a great site. The people trump the technology.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I’ve started to hear more about this out in the community, but since I did this post over a week ago we still haven’t added any new Emily K Center followers.
At least initially I’m guessing this tool is going to mainly be used by those of us in the non-profit field for networking and partnership resources. I hope in the long-run though it spreads to the individuals looking to donate time and resources.