National online community connects nonprofit people

I'm passing this along, but I have no idea who is behind it and I can't vouch for it.

Just thought it might be of interest to this community.

Si Cantwell

si.cantwell@starnewsonline.com

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Online Community Connects Nonprofit Leaders, Volunteers and Organizations

EdBoard.com provides nonprofits with a dedicated social collaboration website

January 3, 2011, 2010: St. Louis, MO – Recognizing a need to connect nonprofit leaders and provide opportunities to collaborate and share best practices and other information, an online community called EdBoard.com was launched earlier this month.

“Most nonprofits are trying to make the world a better place.  Yet, after working in the nonprofit sector for many years, it was clear that nonprofit leaders face significant challenges to achieving their goals,” said Ken Krueger, founder and CEO of EdBoard.com.  “Despite these challenges, there are some brilliant people doing some amazing things.  What the entire sector needed was a more efficient means of sharing these innovations and best practices.”

Krueger added that his team launched EdBoard.com to fulfill this need, in effect providing an online version of a professional conference.  EdBoard.com is dedicated social space to connect with others, to share ideas, discuss lessons and experiences, and to help organizations succeed.

EdBoard.com members, referred to as “Edvocates,” are able to create personal profiles similar to other social sites.  Members then can connect with other nonprofit leaders through shared interests, background similarities or mutual connections.  EdBoard.com, however, goes beyond the capabilities of other sites by also enabling members to upload and download documents and files to share substantive, value-added content. 

According to Krueger, this ability to share user-generated content is what sets EdBoard.com apart.  “Paradoxically, EdBoard.com is both a tool and the object that the tool is building.  It is a tool that helps nonprofit leaders advance their organizations, but is also something that constantly grows as it is built by and for nonprofit leaders.”

Being an Edvocate is free for nonprofit professionals and volunteer leaders.  Organizations have the option to use EdBoard.com as a means to connect and exchange information between their staff through the formation of branded public communities at EdBoard.com.  Through a licensing agreement, organizations also can establish branded private communities that are linked to EdBoard.com. 

“Such an arrangement enables an organization’s leaders to connect with each other internally in order to share strategic or proprietary information, but also remain connected to the ideas and lessons from others outside their own organization,” said Krueger.  “We already are working with one large nonprofit organization to build an EdBoard.com-linked private community in order to connect and exchange information between its national staff, chapter executive directors and chapter board chairs.”

About Edboard.com
Edboard.com is a free online community, created to connect nonprofit leaders, volunteers and organizations. Founded in 2010, Edboard.com provides a social space where nonprofits can connect, engage and exchange with others, and share best practices to grow and advance their organizations. By facilitating interaction between nonprofit leaders, Edboard.com hopes to accelerate making the world a better place. Visit www.edboard.com for more information.

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Contact: 

Danieal Broz

KolbeCo Marketing for EdBoard.com

Danieal@kolbeco.net

636-379-3895