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Tips to Drown out the Twitter Noise
Folks, this has become a big issue on Twitter – how do you get to the real good stuff on your Twitter feed? Where are the tweets from your community? And how do you make an effort to use Twitter most...
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Thanks from the Chief Nerd
Hey, everyone, my team and I've been reading everything you've kindly posted in response to my updates and posts. My natural, nerdly, inclination is to respond to all, but that doesn't work, and my...
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The Thank You Economy (a book recommendation)
Sometimes we forget that we really do live in civil society, where people generally get along, and that's to everyone's benefit. In particular, people use the Net and social media for mutual benefit...
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Help Seva Foundation fight blindness
Hey, for decades, Seva has served people around the world who are struggling for health, cultural survival and sustainable communities. They call it "compassion in action" and just had a big...
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Organic Health Response/Inveneo: using the Net to fight AIDS in Kenya
The folks at Organic Health Response are doing really good stuff, using IT and environmental sustainability on Mfangano Island in Western Kenya to work against HIV/AIDS across Lake Victoria. They're...
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The Heart & Soul grant program
It's easy for your organization to forget what it's about, particularly under the stress of raising funds sometimes even to just survive. Sometimes, you need to remind your staff, your constituents,...
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Smoke-Free Super Bowl help
Hey, the folks at American Legacy Foundation are the real deal, set up by lots of states as part of a settlement deal with the tobacco companies. They run the Truth campaign, trying to prevent...
View ArticleFunding for public service media in trouble
It turns out that large and small stations alike along with NPR and PBS are in danger of losing the public support that they've received since 1967. There are already three bills before Congress to...
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Donorschoose: HP Netbook to Connect and Create With Aussie E-Pals
Okay, the deal with DonorsChoose.org is that you can give a hand to kids and teachers that they sometimes really need. (This is part of an ongoing thing: 186 projects supported 9,287 students...
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Millenials reimagine America’s future
Okay, it's time for young Americans, millenials, to figure out what their version of the American Dream is, and to figure out how to get there. The folks at the Roosevelt Campus Network are getting...
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