Hey friends! So I’m in New York City this week for a flood of world-changing, global thinking, innovative and inspiring conferences, meetups and opportunities. I’m also covering much of what is happening on a few different online platforms, plus have some exciting press to share, so I thought I’d put it all here to share with you.
It’s UN Week, and accordingly, Mashable, the 92nd Street Y and the UN Foundation hosted the Social Good Summit on Monday that I wrote about here last. I wrote up a few posts online, check them out!
Halogen: Social Good Summit Kicks Off UN Week Republished on the United Nations blog, Conversations For A Better World
UN Week Media posted three of my posts yesterday:
- Social Good Summit In Photos
- What Are The Millennium Development Goals?
- Quote Roundup from Social Good Summit
Housekeeping note! A lot of my posts are repurposed on SocialBrite and WeBlogTheWorld so you can find work from me there as well including the post from The Causemopolitan from yesterday.
Next up! I was on NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday afternoon. What an honor. I was contacted through the contact form on my blog to see if I could participate in a conversation about how apps and social media can change the world. I was like “uhm yeah, I can talk about that.” Minus the “uhm” of course. But seriously, I mean my grandparents listen to NPR. Along with my photo and coverage in the Wall Street Journal earlier this year when I was the citizen journalist chosen to go to the World Economic Forum in Davos, it’s like my family finally understands what I do!
So I was on NPR talking about Saving The World With Apps And Twitter along with Chris Hughes, one of the Facebook founders and Founder of the soon-to-be-launched Jumo and Ray Chambers, General Secretary of the Special Envoy on Malaria. From the write up:
Many donors are understandably wary of donating to far-flung, small-scale organizations, says Sloane Berrent, founder of the consulting firm Answer With Action. But tools like YouTube and Flickr, Berrent says, can help donors hold organizations accountable.
“We have an opportunity to ask organizations and ask the people who are taking our donations to provide information back to us when they give that money to the people on the ground,” Berrent says.
Read the full article and listen to the transcript here.
Last! I’m spending a good part of this week at the Clinton Global Initiative. It’s been my dream to attend (after Davos of course) and so to have the opportunity to be here, to soak up the knowledge and to share it with so many of you – it’s truly amazing. I’m going to have posts on WhatGives?! starting today for the rest of the week and again in a few other spots so hope you enjoy the coverage. If there are certain topics you really want to know about, people interviewed or anything else, just let me know!
Sloane Berrent is a cause-based marketing and social branding consultant, nonprofiteer and budding social entrepreneur. She uses social media, product evangelizing, fundraising and community development services to help for-profit and nonprofit companies with a focus on social action campaigns. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, she has lived in Burlington VT, Boston MA, Rome Italy, and Los Angeles, CA. She spent 2009 as a digital nomad, traveling the world experiencing life and volunteering including stints in South America, New Orleans and three months in the Philippines as a Kiva Fellow.
She co-created “Cause It’s My Birthday” a campaign to raise money (over $19k to date) and awareness for malaria prevention in Ghana. Sloane moved to New Orleans as her new home at the end of 2009 and co-launched NOLAlicious, a weekly newsletter of events in New Orleans. She was recently named the citizen journalist to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for the MySpace and The Wall Street Journal communities. Her consulting practice, Answer With Action, focuses on strategic integrated marketing consulting. She speaks frequently on building community and blogs at The Causemopolitan.
