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Ayelet Noff of the Traveling Geeks holds the Flip Ultra HD in London. (Photo by JD Lasica) Launching our summer series on making media for social good Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, NGOs, citizen journalists, media makers We’re kicking off a summer series on making media for nonprofits and social change organizations. And, […]
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Nonprofit highlights and photos of SXSW
CauseLab, Good Guide, Ushahidi lead impressive array of social change efforts I‘ve learned long ago the challenge of covering South by Southwest Interactive, which hums along at its own idiosyncratic pace compared to more linear conferences. Thus, I spent last year and this year doing less blogging, conducting more interviews (which I’ll roll out in […]
‘The Cove’: Will movies usher in a new era of social change?
Moving movie audiences to take action from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘ll confess: I was excited to see The Cove take home the Academy Award for best feature documentary last night. While all the entrants were worthy, “The Cove” is among the handful of movies pushing the idea of Hollywood productions as the fulcrum for […]
‘Philanthrocapitalism’: Givers are more likely to change the world
Ihad the opportunity to meet Matthew Bishop, business editor for The Economist and author of Philanthrocapitalism, at a dinner about the “Future of Philanthropy.” It was fascinating to hear Matt talk about the role of the wealthy and the future of giving. “People who give are much more likely to come up with the answer […]
Socialbrite to appear at Net Tuesday
We’ve been big fans of NetSquared and its global series of Net Tuesday meetups for years — check out this map showing the dozens of cities with Net Tuesdays around the world. And our own Amy Sample Ward is NetSquared’s Global Community Builder and organizes the London Net Tuesday group (see her Socialbrite profile). So […]
