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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 […]
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How to grow your blog with social media for social good
This is part of the series the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. Like many kids, I was involved in the Boy Scouts. The scout leader was Mr. Pertrazzio, who was an electrician. Now, I’m sure he loved being involved with the Boy Scouts. But when you think about it, he […]
Mashable & our favorite posts of the year
Welcome to all the visitors from Mashable! We were thrilled to be featured in Melissa Rowley‘s article, 4 Social Good Trends of 2009. For first-timers, we thought now would be a good time to highlight some of our favorite posts on Socialbrite since our launch earlier this year: Some of our favorite causes • Tweet […]
10 new ways to take social actions
Nathan Freitas, Jacob Colker and Ben Rigby of the Extraordinaries at NetSquared 2009. The Bay Area-based Extraordinaires are among the social causes highlighted in the current issue of Time magazine in an article titled New Ways to Make a Difference. Time identified three new trends in doing good: Put your time to work 1The Extraordinaries: […]
Harnessing the crowd for social good
From left, Jon Bischke of eduFire, Leila Chirayath Janah of SamaSource, Jacob Colker of The Extraordinaries and Robert Chatwani, Head of Global Citizenship, eBay. Last night was another one of those eye-popping events where large numbers of people turn out for an event to discuss how new technologies can be used to advance social change. […]
