Yesterday, the Gates Foundation, Facebook and College Summit co-hosted the second annual education-focused hackathon at Facebook’s Menlo Park campus. The event brought together education experts and some of the world’s best developers. Twenty-four teams spent the day brainstorming and building apps that will help make the college-going process easier to understand and navigate, especially for low-income students.

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Today, the Gates Foundation and Facebook teamed up once again to host HackEd 2.0. This education-centered hackathon brought together talented developers to create unique college-going apps for low-income and first generation students. I was thrilled to serve as a judge at the event.

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As an early adopter of social media and as the creator of a year-old 1000+ member influencer network of mothers who use social media and blogging for good I would like to share eight easy social media for social good tips any nonprofit can utilize even in a resource-strapped economy.

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Photo of the day for Friday, September 28, 2012.

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