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Chandeleur Islands Balloon Aerial Imagery from Grassroots Mapping Ways to get involved & new technologies being used to stop and track the disaster President Obama addressed the nation last night and made a stop in the Gulf Coast region this week to survey the damage and relief efforts. As local residents already know, the environmental […]
Public interest
Gov 2.0: A new roundup of resources
Government entities, public-spirited orgs and more This afternoon I’ll be speaking on a panel at Personal Democracy Forum in New York on “Refining Your Social Media Smarts: Campaign Successes From YouTube to Facebook to Twitter,” following the Mobilize Your Cause Bootcamp I co-presented yesterday at CUNY to 40 participants to kick off the PDF […]
Anthropology: Taking it mobile
Anyone taking more than a passing glance at the kiwanja.net website shouldn’t need long to figure out my four key areas of interest. I’ve always maintained that if your ideal job doesn’t exist, then you have to create it, and being able to combine my passions for technology, anthropology, conservation and development is for me […]
Collaboration: The next phase of social change?
At lunch yesterday in San Francisco, eight folks in the social change sector gathered at Samovar Tea Lounge to compare notes, discuss partnerships and answer a question posed by convener Christine Egger of SocialActions.com: What is the problem you see in your sector, and how would you solve it? The conversation quickly turned to silos […]
10 mobile apps for social good
GoodGuide, Find Green, Give Work make Socialbrite’s Top 10 list By Kim Bale Socialbrite staff Mobile applications are flooding the market at a dizzying rate — more than 150,000 now for the iPhone and tens of thousands for Android and Blackberry. And it’s important to keep in mind that only 18 percent of the phones […]
