New platform revolutionizes the way emergency response takes place Guest post by Katrina Heppler envisionGood.tv Bravo to the thousands of volunteers worldwide who are assisting with translating Creole mobile text messages to help people in Haiti following the devastating 7.0M earthquake that struck the nation Jan. 12. You may not have heard of Mission 4636, […]
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Save resources & money with Better World Telecom
A telecom that does good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Until I met Salem Kimble (who earlier covered GoingGreen for Socialbrite), I had never heard of BetterWorld Telecom. With a tagline of “Change the world. One call at a time,” they’re a socially conscious telecom provider for nonprofits and mission-driven businesses that donates 3 percent […]
CauseWorld: Support causes on the go
Last month I made a prediction that we might see fundraisers with Foursquare or some other location-based mobile social network with gaming element. Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0 trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are on track. TechCrunch just wrote about a new mobile application called CauseWorld. Here’s how it works: CauseWorld app […]
The Extraordinaries: Building the ‘micro-volunteering’ movement
At Net Tuesday last month and the recent gathering of social change organizations at Chronicle Books, both in San Francisco, participants heard from Jacob Colker, co-founder and CEO of The Extraordinaries about their ambitious effort to kick-start a “micro-volunteering” movement of people who help worthwhile causes in their spare time through the use of their […]
Voice-based technology aids social change
Projects that use mobile to deliver impactful information By Prabhas Pokharel MobileActive.org The precursors to mobile phones were walkie-talkies, and the first generation of mobile phone networks only supported voice communications. With second generation networks and a happy accident came SMS, and only with the third generation networks came mobile data services in the form […]