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 […]
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Advancing social causes on campus
Aden Van Noppen of Brown University discusses a youth initiative and campus engagement strategy, supported by the Acumen Fund, to involve college students in social causes. The initiative is focused on how finance and business can be used as a tool for social impact in fighting poverty and advancing other social causes — and making […]
Drupal’s founder on open-source publishing
Drupal: open-source publishing from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I finally had the chance to sit down with Dries Buytaert, founder and creator of Drupal, the open source content management system that is now powering tens of thousands of websites, including The Onion, Firefox sites, Sony Music artists (see myplay.com) and many others. Also spent time […]
Comparing Terms of Service at video sites
Target group: Cause organizations, nonprofits, NGOs, educators, students, businesses, general public Drop down to see: YouTube Blip.tv Ourmedia Internet Archive Yahoo Video Revver Google Video Metacafe DoGooder TV Many organizations and users don’t give a second thought to the rights you forfeit over the use of your […]
Amazee: a platform for social activism
Amazee from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Dania Gerhardt, co-founder and chief of finance and operations for Amazee.com, discusses “the world’s first social collaboration platform.” Her company, based in Zurich, Switzerland, launched in September 2007 and the platform went public in May 2008. Amazee is a platform for social activism and enabling groups and movements to […]