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A good majority of us think of social media as a time waster, so much so that corporate IT networks block them off. However social media today has moved beyond personal “keep in touch” vehicles to one of the strategic ways to drive social change. How does it all happen? What should non profits do? Is it just for the big non profits? What are the most important things in implementing a social media strategy?. This paper gives a practical approach drawn from experience reaching out social media skills to more than 750 non profits in India. A good majority of us think of social media as a time waster, so much so that corporate IT networks block them off. However social media today has moved beyond personal “keep in touch” vehicles to one of the strategic ways to drive social change. How does it all happen? Its fairly simple: passionate people write (blog, tweet, post) high impact stories, donors and interested people read them and ACT. They act to raise donations (Facebook causes, paypa...

Vice President Ashwin G Knowledge Initiatives Coordinator Swetha Balasubramanian Marketing and Communication Coordinator Jinu Net Impact   International Careers Abhishek Srivastava Social entrepreneurship and innovations coordinator Puneet Gupta Net Impact Conclave Coordinator Vani Malik Social Responsibility   Coordinator Deepika Seth ISB Responsible Coordinator Sushama Board Fellows Coordinator Saurav Shekhar , Veena Kondaveeti ISB Global Probono Consulting Coordinator Sowmya Ramakrishnan, Satish Kumar Subramani Events Coordinator Namrata Jagdish, Bhargavi Net Impact Evangelist   Mudita Chauhan Fund Raising and Corporate Relations Coordinator Anuradha Agrawal

Shriya shared her experience with ISB Community on the national movement – “Joy of Giving Week”, the initiative that aims to engage more than 1crore Indians in different "acts of giving"- money, time, resources and skills- spanning the corporate, NGO and government sectors, and also schools, colleges and the general public. The idea of creating a "festival of philanthropy" that can, over the years, become a part of the Indian ethos, with the Week being celebrated every year covering Gandhi Jayanti. The Week that’s designed as a "public platform" and is being co-ordinated by GiveIndia, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote "giving". Last year, ISB in partnership with the GiveIndia ( http://www.giveindia.org/ ) launched the ‘Shadow a CEO’ programme to coincide with The Joy of Giving Week.  The objective of this programme is twofold – engage ISB students in the act of giving and provide with a lifetime opportunity to observe and learn by spendin...

Just finished off Job descriptions for the Net Impact Core Team in ISB. The Graduate Student Board will be shortly sending an official release calling for applications to Net Impact. The core team will have 15 members, Here are the official core roles that we will have in Net Impact Vice President Knowledge Initiatives Coordinator Marketing and Communications Coordinator Website and Design Coordinator Social Entrepreneurship and Innovations Coordinator Net Impact Conclave Coordinator Social Responsibility Coordinator  ISB Responsible Coordinator(look after ISB Corps too) Board Fellows Coordinator ISB Global ProBono Consulting Coordinator Events Coordinator Net Impact Evangelist Fundraising and Corporate Relations Coordinator We will start off with interviews tomorrow and will end it by Saturday evening.

Hi!! I am delighted to share that I have been elected President of Net  Impact@ISB.  I am humbled by the confidence the student body has expressed in me  and would strive to make it better. Net Impact Chapter @ ISB is gold rated, only 7% of  graduate student Net Impact chapters across the world received a Gold  Chapter rating. Net Impact@ISB is the first chapter in Asia. . Net Impact achieve the mission to inspire, educate, and equip  individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and  environmentally sustainable world( http://www.netimpact.org/index.cfm )

Its been quite a while since I really wrote something interesting. Yes I am enjoying the ISB experience, its been very different for me. I was deep in rural settings (ah when I think back ...so much so that what is really normal, in all places is actually a luxury in the most parts of India,can think of hundreds of instances Diet Coke in Hubli :) ) and here I came to an International Bschool. It feels good that I kept faith in times few would, happy perhaps that I followed a singular vision no matter where it takes me. By the way would love to go to Africa if given a chance :) But then I have loads of things to do as of now, ISB has a Net Impact Chapter and a lot of conventional social wisdom prevails here, not that I do not value convential wisdom but I think India today needs revolutionary business acumen to solve critical social issues.The Manmohan Govt recognised this pretty clearly by appointing Nandan Nilekani for the Unique Identification project. Its exciting if we could ge...

Finally, I have some respite in terms of lessening my liabilities post my MBA, have been selected as  a   Narottam Seksharia  Scholar, will get upto 10 Lakhs of interest free loan and mentorship. Wow it is indeed exciting. Furthermore I would be standing for the elections of the Net Impact Club. I would love to utilise all my learnings in making ISB's social impact more meaningful. The immense talent here can really make a whole lot of difference to the socielty and I plan to do my bit in harnessing it.