July 3, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Google Foundation has launched the Official Google.org Blog — a new blog that chronicles news and notes from Google’s philanthropic arm.
“Today we’re starting a blog of our own,” Greg Miller, managing director of Google.org, writes in the inaugural post. “We’ll invite posts by our team members and other Googlers about what they’re working on, and by our grantees and partners on ideas and insights they want to share with all of you. We hope to include some of their reports and updates, as well as thoughts shared by guest bloggers.”
The blog also features a post by Irene Taylor Brodsky, founder of Vermilion Films, who is producing a documentary film about those who are working to eradicate polio. Ms. Brodsky is making the film with money from the Google Foundation.
Sean Stannard-Stockton, a California philanthropy adviser, sees the new Google blog as a template for how other foundations can use blogs to talk about philanthropy and social change.
“If there is any foundation that should know how to best utilize a blog to further their mission it’s Google,” writes Mr. Stannard-Stockton on Tactical Philanthropy. “After all, Google the company owns Blogger.”
What do you think of Google.org’s new blog? Will it be a useful model for other foundations that are looking to build their own blogs? Click on the comments link below this post to share your thoughts.
