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Recently the TV critic of the St. Petersburg Times asked for my thoughts about the migration of celebrities to Twitter over the past few months. Will it inevitably dumb down the service? Bring it into the mainstream? Make us want to move on to the Next Big Thing? Ashton Kutcher is closing in on 2 […]
Causes
Change.org: Turning concern into action
Change.org: Helping you take action online from JD Lasica on Vimeo. One of the most impressive and influential sites in the causes space, Change.org, has really come into its own in the past six to eight months. The social enterprise is helping raise awareness about important social causes and empowering people to take action, chiefly […]
How KidsAreHeroes.com uses social media
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 […]
Change.org adds Jobs for Change
Change.org’s Jobs for Change is a career service and jobs marketplace that aims to help people find and develop a career they love in social change — which for them means nonprofit, government, and social enterprise jobs. To do this, they’ve hired a team of career advisors who will each be writing a daily blog […]
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 […]
