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Save Our Sounds from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the Traveling Geeks‘ Tweetup in the Chelsea district of London on July 5, I ran into Kate Arkless Gray, “microblogger-in-residence” at the BBC World Service, who looks after its Save Our Sounds project. SOS seeks to preserve disappearing sounds in society. Kate explains how the project […]
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Symbian: Going open source has made huge difference
Symbian goes open source from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Probably few people have noticed that Symbian, the operating system that powers nearly half the world’s smartphones (compared with the iPhone’s 1.1% overall market share), is opening up its platform and going open source. “Being open source has made an incredible difference in how we interact […]
Using Twitter for a global conversation
Over the last few months, we have seen Twitter serve the global community by playing an important role in communications – whether it’s finding new friends (#FollowFriday), or telling the world about your government/election/political state (#IranElection), whether it’s having a conversation together (#4Change), or non-linearly replacing your RSS feed. What do those # mean? That’s […]
How open standards can benefit nonprofit tech
Guest post by Peter Deitz SocialActions I don’t know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. Open standards (see picture below) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry. In the nonprofit technology community, open standards […]
10 ways to support charity through social media
Guest post by Josh Catone Mashable This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. ______________________________________________ Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation […]
