SOCAP OPEN is now closed. Thank you to everyone for participating and helping build a great SOCAP13. See the 2013 winners below! The top 23 entries are all coming through to SOCAP.
Distributed networks are transforming the supply chain for the creation, distribution and promotion of media. While traditional sources of media that matter struggle to find large audiences, certain stories and content are being shared and promoted through new innovative platforms to reach millions of people across diverse …
A two hour workshop that introduces the strategy that helped Obama mobilize millions to win not once but twice. This session will be led by top organizing strategist Betsy Hoover who ran the 2012 Obama campaign’s online organizing department. Coming out of this session, participants will have …
How can we galvanize public opinion to develop social capital? How can we create new and lasting community expectations that shape the way people act, think and behave? How can we build deeper understanding and ownership of social issues? This session will examine Public Will Building, a …
Can healthcare in the developing world be transformed by the management methods that drove McDonalds to sell over 50 million hamburgers a day? Franchising may be a dirty word in developed markets, but its benefits of quality control, brand recognition, standarization, cost control, and efficiencies achieved through …
How can you better understand the impact of your portfolio or validate your investment mandate? Once collected, what do you really do with impact data? What insights are revealed from comparing your portfolio to a larger benchmark group? And are there any trends in tracking social and …
Environmental problems are getting worse in the developing countries along with human rights and poverty. Natural resources are developed indiscriminately destroying the ecosystem. However, many people in the developed countries neglect to look into the matter. In order to increase the awareness and to involve them in …
Last year Sylvia Earl questioned SOCAP 12’s audience about the value of the fish in our plate VS the value of the fish in the ocean. This sessions brings together innovators in the businesses, social and philanthropic arenas that with a collective action approach are reaching success …
A look at fundraising and how tech and new fundraising channels can generate effortless revenue for nonprofit organizations. Not just driving revenue to your organization but also mesurable information of your users so you will target more effectively your users and followers. You can start been data …
The power of media communications to accelerate social change is astounding - yet it has gone untapped. We’ve focused on the empowering the entrepreneur for the work of social change but have yet to empower the artist – those who will master the message to create cultural …
Money, money, money. There is need everywhere. We want to raise a new generation and mobilize the youth! We want to provide jobs for women! We are training future leaders! And on and on. Each beautiful, each worthy. Against a backdrop of mounting social issues and game-changing …
People love to “click to buy”. People don’t love to “click to take action”. Why is that? Groupon started as a non-profit attempt similar to PledgeBank.com and SocialActions.com. Until it pivoted and succeeded to become self-sustaining and then to make billions in valuation. It succeeded in ways …
Today’s brands face an apparent choice between two evils: continuing to slash their increasingly ineffective advertising, or putting blind faith in the supposedly mystical power of social media, where “likes” stand in for transactions and a mass audience is maddeningly elusive. There has to be a better …
Important 2015 Dates
- June 7th: Final day to submit an idea.
- June 8th – June 19th: Commenting and voting period. All sessions open for voting.
- June 20th – June 29th: Judging panel and final selection by SOCAP15 Content Team.
- June 30th: Winning sessions announced to session organizers.
