Randy Gold Named North America’s 2011 Jewish Community Hero

The Jewish Federations of North America today awarded Randy Gold of Atlanta the 2011 Jewish Community Hero of the Year Award.

(Source: jewishfederations.org)

Twitter offers ‘radical connectivity’ at GA

More than any of the content at this year’s General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, what fascinated me was the effect of social media – particularly Twitter – on the conference itself, and more broadly, on the Jewish community….

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Semifinalists Chosen for Jewish Community Heroes Awards

The Jewish Federations of North America announced the top 20 semifinalists for the third annual Jewish Community Heroes Awards, an online contest that recognizes and promotes acts of volunteerism in the North American Jewish community.

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Jewish Community for Month of Volunteerism

UJA-Federation of New York believes in the power of the Jewish community to achieve the biggest impact. That is why UJA-Federation is supporting Jewish Social Action Month (JSAM), which transforms the Jewish month of Cheshvan from a month without Jewish holidays into a global month celebrating volunteerism and community building.

http://www.ujafedny.org/jewish-social-action-month/

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Integrating Social Media

Slide 1: Social Media is the Digital “Wild West”

• Fast-paced
• Rules not yet completely defined
• Best practices can change quickly
• New outlets opening up often
• One person has an idea/technique that works; everyone else replicates
• Worth participating

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A 20th-century solution to 21st-century problems

But even the notion that we should agree is misleading. Open source development, crowd-sourced social media, and the decentralized successes of the Tea Party and Occupy movements should by now have taught us that the best path to innovation is not Soviet-style central planning, but the anarchic chaos of the free market, in which lots of ideas are experimented with and only the strong survive. This is precisely what is happening anyway in the Jewish philanthropic world, for the temperamental reasons noted above. But rather than embrace the change, the federation movement is convening yet another central planning process, flying in the face of history.

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Social Media Boot Camp @ SYNERGY’s 2011-2012 Synagogue Leadership Development

Last year’s Social Media Boot Camp series focused on the uses of specific social media tools, such as Facebook and Twitter. This year, the topic of the six-part webinar series will be the implications of these social media tools with a focus on strategy, staffing, and leadership as they pertain to the mission, function, and sustainability of synagogues.

(Source: ujafedny.org)

Dozens of Federations turn to social media in effort to honor Jewish Community Heroes

The Jewish Community Heroes initiative, created by the Jewish Federations of North America, is part of a broad effort to promote public service. To build on the success of last year’s program, federations across the nation are connecting with people through social media such as Facebook and Twitter in order to recognize the selflessness and courage of those helping their communities through volunteer service.

(Source: jewishpresspinellas.com)