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 […]
Causes
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 […]
Global Hug Tour
Global Hug Tour from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I love stories like this. In Chicago last weekend I met Gail Lynne Goodwin of Inspire Me Today, who told the Business School for Bloggers gathering about her new project: the Global Hug Tour. Gail and her husband Darryl — an ordinary couple from Boulder, Colo. — […]
Tim Ferriss’ method of supporting causes
Tim Ferriss, author of the best-seller The Four-Hour Work Week, appeared today via uStream at the Inbound Marketing Summit during the session “How to Create a Worldwide Social Media Phenomenon.” He took questions from the audience, and I asked how he decides which causes to support. It wasn’t an idle question. Ferriss has become a […]
Carbon footprints, nation by nation
Just in time for Earth Day: the site Breathing Earth, which is described as a “real-time simulation which displays CO2 emissions from every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.” The data used comes from reputable sources, although the site admits that a simulation on this scale can never be […]