By Katrina Heppler, envisionGOOD.tv and JD Lasica, Socialbrite Last week, guests at the Digital Summer event in San Francisco “planted” 940 trees in Honduras with the help of partner Mokugift. Co-founder Hans Chung (whom we met at two previous awareness2action events) was in attendance, showing off on his laptop the site’s global reach: You can […]
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Crowdsourcing for social good
An ad hoc group of Bay Area folks who explore how new technology is driving social change, organized by Sundeep Ahuja, is holding its fifth event on Thursday. (I wrote about awareness2action’s first event almost exactly one year ago.) Here are the details: Event: Crowdsourcing for Social Good Hosts: SocialEarth, Hub Bay Area and Chronicle […]
United We Serve: Become an agent of change
Like millions of Americans, I’ve been looking for ways in which to get more involved in worthy community efforts. The traditional ways in which you can volunteer and gave back at the community — say, working in a soup kitchen or signing up for AmeriCorps — just expanded exponentially with the recent rollout of the […]
Online community building: Gardening vs. landscaping
My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. You can read the post and join the conversation on SSIR or below, where I’ve republished the full post. My current job title includes the term “Community Builder” and I get asked nearly every day just what that means: How do you […]
Socialbrite to appear at Net Tuesday
We’ve been big fans of NetSquared and its global series of Net Tuesday meetups for years — check out this map showing the dozens of cities with Net Tuesdays around the world. And our own Amy Sample Ward is NetSquared’s Global Community Builder and organizes the London Net Tuesday group (see her Socialbrite profile). So […]