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This post is condensed from an April 2008 dispatch from Israel on Socialmedia.biz. We had a fascinating conversation over a lunch of yummy falafels at GoodVision, an Israeli consulting company that specializes in planning and managing corporate social responsibility processes in firms and governmental agencies. General manager Ivri Verbin took us through the site’s mission […]
WordPress and TypePad compared
Both services are versatile, but WP has pulled ahead People still ask us all the time which blogging platform they should use. (Micro-answer: It depends on what’s important to you.) During the first few months of 2009, we decided to launch two new ventures — Socialmedia.biz and Socialbrite.org — on WordPress.org platform. Let me explain […]
Micki Krimmel: How to make yourself more green
Environmental activist Micki Krimmel — a former community manager at Participant Productions and Revver — talks about sustainability how to make yourself more green in this interview I conducted at the 2007 Pixelodeon video festival in Hollywood. Watch MPEG-4 video at Internet Archive Watch or download video on Revver See low-quality Flash version on YouTube
A new service for cause organizations
My longtime friend Tom Watson, author of CauseWired, launched a new venture on Thursday: CauseWired Communications LLC. I’ve long thought that there’s a market opportunity for consultancies and social enterprises to serve the needs of nonprofits and cause organizations that don’t have the financial or staffing resources to take advantage of the social Web. Tom […]
Activism and the social enterprise
One of the extraordinary things about the Bay Area is the relative ease with which you can bring a large number of bright, passionate, committed people under the same roof. When it’s a bar (and not just a barcamp but the real thing), so much the better. And so it was earlier this evening when […]
