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How KidsAreHeroes Uses Twitter from John Haydon on Vimeo. I had the incredible opportunity to speak with Gabe O’Neill of Kids Are Heroes a couple of weeks ago and was completely blown away by two things: His unwavering sense of mission. He uses only Twitter for social media actions. Kids Are Heroes recently won the […]
Social impact
Sloane Berrent on the cause-filled life
The cause-filled life from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Sloane Berrent, who publishes TheCausemopolitan and blogs at LAist and GirlsinTech.net, talks about causes and building community in this 3 1/2-minute video interview. I caught up with her a few minutes after the LA tech scene session she co-moderated at South by Southwest 2009 in Austin; the […]
Secrets and sex education
Secrets and sex education from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Hannah Cordero, program coordinator for the Education Theatre Program of Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, tells about the Secrets program geared toward teens through theatrical performances. Educational Theatre Programs served over 360,000 people in Northern California in 2008. Hannah spoke at the recent sex::tech conference in […]
How mobile is empowering consumers
Sensing is just one way in which mobiles are used in environmental protection. Another promising area is wildlife protection in sensitive areas where humans and animals collide, often to the detriment of protected animals. In the Laikipia District in Kenya, the University of Cambridge conducted a project using mobile phones to protect and manage Kenya’s […]
Buy on eBay to help your favorite cause
eBay Giving Works from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the first Awareness2Action gathering in San Francisco in August 2008 I heard about eBay’s Giving Works program, which has raised $150 million for charitable causes on eBay over its first five years. These folks rock! I swung down to eBay headquarters in San Jose a few […]
