Blogs (A-Z)

Social Marketing

• Adlibbing by the Ad Council
• BroadStreet Pump – RI (Bob Marshall) (no new posts since 2007)
• U.K.’s National Social Marketing Center’s Blog
• Marketing for Change
• Ogilvy’s Social Marketing exChange
• On Social Marketing and Social Change
• Public Sector Marketing 2.0
• PSI HealthyLives Blog
• Social Marketing exCHANGE
• Social Marketing Panorama
• Social Marketing Quarterly’s Market Mavens
• Spare Change
• Stephen Dahl’s Blog: The Social Side of Marketing
• Strategic Social Marketing
• The Campaign Company’s Blog
• Upstream Downstream
• USSocialMarketingPlan (no new posts since 2008)
• Walking the Path
• We Take Sides

Social Technology

*This includes Web, tech, mobile, and more.

• Conversation Agent
• Mashable
• Mobihealthnews
• Ogilvy PR 360 Digital Influence’s Blog
• Society for New Communications Research
• Social Media Examiner
• Usa-blog-ability
• Web Analytics, Behavioral Targeting and Optimization
• Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang

Social Innovation

Health

• Digital Health and Wellness
• Disruptive Women in Healthcare
• e-Patients
• healthGAMERS
• Health Justice Connecticut’s Blog
• Health Populi
• HealthWorks Collective
• HL7 Health Standards
• iHealthBeat – Public Health
• JSI’s The Pump
• Kinetics
• MIT’s New Media Medicine Lab
• Mobihealthnews
• National Center for Health Statistics Blog
• NewPublicHealth by RWJF
• Path of the Blue Eye
• Pulse+Signal
• Shaping Youth
• Social Media Technology in Prevention
• The Health Digital
• The Pump Handle
• Upstream
• UNC’s School of Public Health: Health Blog Listings

Government + Civic Innovation

• Andrew P. Wilson’s Posterous
• Armchair Advocates
• Athena’s Lightning
• DigitalGov
• Impatient Optimists, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Incentivize.us
• Information is Beautiful
• Government 2.0 Beta
• GSA’s Digital Services Innovation Center’s Blog
• On Dot-Gov
• Marketing in the Public Sector
• McKinsey Society’s Blog
• O’Reilly Radar: Alex Howard
• O’Reilly Radar: Gov’t 2.0
• Publicyte
• Sector: Public
• Social Media Strategery
• Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Blog
• The Dragonfly Effect
• WhiteHouse.gov’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation’s Blog

Nonprofit

• A. Fine Blog
• AED Hub
• Amy Sample-Ward’s Version of NPTech
• Beth’s Blog: How Networked Non-Profits Use Social Media
• Case Foundation
• Community Organizer 2.0
• frogloop
• Generation Leadership for Social Change
• Geoff Livingston
• Have Fun * Do Good
• Inspiring Generosity
• Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog: Getting to the Point
• Kivi’s Non-profit Communications Blog
• Marketing for Non-Profits
• Mashable’s Social Good Blog
• New Voices on Philanthropy
• Non-Profit Blog Exchange
• Non-Profit Carnival
• Non-Profit Tech Blog
• Osocio
• Philanthropy 2173
• Social Citizens
• Social Impact Blog
• SocialBrite
• Subject to Change
• Open Road Advisors (Foundation-Specific)

Organizations For Social Marketing

• Academy for Educational Development (AED)
• ACT Responsible
• Canadian Social Marketing Association (Canada)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Changents
• Institute for Social Marketing
• Massachusetts Social Marketing Association
• National Social Marketing Centre (U.K.)
• NYU Langone Medical Center has opened The Center for Healthful Behavior Change (CHBC)
• Population Services International
• Social Marketing Downunder (Australia)
• Social Marketing Institute (USA)
• Turning Point Social Marketing National Excellence Collaborative

Socially Good Agencies

• Ad Council
• Banyan Communications
• Betterworld Advertising
• Big Think Studios
• Cone
• Corporate Culture
• EnviroMedia Social Marketing
• FHI 360
• Green Team USA
• Hub Marketing (U.K.)
• IQ Solutions
• John Snow, Inc. 
• Kirby Marketing Solutions
• Marketing for Change
• Metropolitan Group
• Noral Group International
• Ogilvy PR Social Marketing
• Rescue Social Change Group
• Plowshare Group Inc.
• Purpose
• Research Triangle International (RTI)
• SERVE
• Social Marketing East
• Touchpoint Agency
• Underground Advertising
• Weinreich Communications
• Worldways Social Marketing
• Zoetica

Informed People

• Jay Bernhardt
• Brian Cugelman
• Dr. Stephen Dann
• Susannah Fox
• Nancy Lee
• Craig Lefebvre
• Philip Kotler
• Jim Grizzell
• Dr. Doug MacKenzie-Mohr (Community-Based Social Marketing)
• Mr. James (Jim) Mintz
• Win Morgan
• Tambra Stevenson
• Nedra Weinreich

List Servs, Newsletters, Journals and More

• Social Marketing Quarterly
• The Journal of Social Marketing
  
• The Journal of Fostering Sustainable Behavior
• Games for Health: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications (G4H)
  
• National Social Marketing e-Bulletin (UK)
• Social Marketing List serv (USA)
• Stanford Social Innovation Review
• U.S. Federal Health Departments (CDC, HHS, NIH) email lists: There are many. Choose at your will.

Social Marketing Educational Programs

Domestic (USA)

• Emerson College and Tufts University–Joint MA program in Health with a Social Marketing track
• University of South Florida–Certificate in Social Marketing
• Looking for a public health program? MastersinPublicHealth.net offers a comprehensive listing.

International

• Middlesex University–MA in Public Health and Social Marketing

Online Communities

• SocialMarketers.net: The first online community for the real social marketeers.
• Living the Path: The first online community for health marketing professionals.
• Govloop: The premiere social network for anyone in government or interested in government.
• FLiP (Future Leaders in Philanthopy)
• Change.org

Online Philanthropy Sites (source: Washington Post)

Donors Choose: Teachers and school officers post sums of money they need to achieve school projects, and donors can fund all or part of a request.

Global Giving: Groups post their causes and what they need, and donors can find causes they want to support. Donors are kept apprised of the results.

Volunteer Match: Helps link potential volunteers with more than 50,000 nonprofit organizations that need support.

Idealist: A community for nonprofits to exchange ideas and resources, find groups that need help, and find volunteers and donors willing to provide support.

Network for Good: Users can find and donate to more than a million charities and search from among more than 36,000 volunteer opportunities.