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How nonprofits should deal with technological change from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Universal Giving founder/CEO offers strategies for engagement in social responsibility Tonight Pamela Hawley, founder and CEO of UniversalGiving, is headlining an event at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco titled The Leading Edge for Corporate Social Responsibility. (I’m a member but won’t be […]
Cool Gov 2.0 sites you don’t know about
Web 2.0-fueled resources to help each other as citizens Target audience: Political activists, change agents, NGOs, nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, librarians, citizens. It’s become a cliché to be skeptical of what government can do for society. But there’s a burgeoning movement called Government 2.0, the term for attempts to apply the social networking and […]
Support my birthday campaign on Jolkona!
Help enterprising Colombia youths running an Internet cafe Today is my birthday, and in the tradition of other social media strategists working in the nonprofit space like Beth Kanter (I wrote about her last birthday campaign in January) and Geoff Livingston, I’d like to ask your help in making the day special for some enterprising […]
Crowdflower: Toward a world of crowdsourced labor
Crowdflower: Toward a crowdsourced world from JD Lasica on Vimeo. One of the most interesting start-ups that keeps popping up on my radar screen is Crowdflower, which connects nonprofits and companies with people around the globe looking to work on crowdsourced tasks. It’s a fascinating glimpse at future contract labor models and at how work […]
Tiny Buddha: Simple wisdom for complex lives
Tiny Buddha: Simple wisdom for complex lives from JD Lasica on Vimeo. We live in fast times, and what we gain in gadget-obsessed, always-on hyperconnectivity we often lose in life balance and meaningfulness. Lori Deschene, founder of Tiny Buddha, gave a keynote at the Wisdom 2.0 conference in Mountain View, Calif., not long ago to […]
