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Crowdsourcing for social good

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An ad hoc group of Bay Area folks who explore how new technology is driving social change, organized by Sundeep Ahuja, is holding its fifth event on Thursday. (I wrote about awareness2action’s first event almost exactly one year ago.) Here are the details: Event: Crowdsourcing for Social Good Hosts: SocialEarth, Hub Bay Area and Chronicle […]

All about Geeks for Good

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All about the Summer of Social Good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Did you know that this is the first Global Geek Week (Aug. 2-8)? It’s a way to promote the use of social media for the social good — which also happens to be identical to the mission of Socialbrite.org. On Twitter, go to […]

Incentives for doing good

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I had a riveting lunch this week with Jack Herrick (above), a serial entrepreneur who sold eHow (How to Do Just About Everything!) three years ago and, shortly before that, founded wikiHow (Building the World’s How-to Manual), where he’s now CEO of that social-good company. Today’s top wikiHow article: How to Moonwalk Like Michael Jackson. […]

Social mobile: A moral duty to do more?

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Is the future of social mobile an empowered few, or an empowered many? Mobile tools in the hands of the masses presents great opportunity for NGO-led social change, but is that the future we’re creating? In “The White Man’s Burden – Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and […]

SoCap: Advancing the social good

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Advancing the social good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 4-minute interview I did with Kevin Jones, founder of a new conference called Social Capital Markets. The three-day gathering in San Francisco, with 650 attendees, focused on social enterprises, the blurring line between nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits, and the tidal wave of interest […]