HelpAttack! is an Austin startup that allows people to pledge their online activity – whether it’s Tweets or Facebook updates – to a nonprofit of their choice. For every Tweet you send out, or action you take on Facebook, you can pledge whatever amount you choose (most people pledge a total of about $35 a [...]
My good friend Paul Litvak referred me to a newly published academic book called “The Science of Giving,” edited by Daniel M. Oppenheimer and Christopher Y. Olivia. So far, it is phenomenal. My favorite thing about research, data analysis, and social science in general is that it can turn conventional wisdom, common sense, and the obvious [...]
It has been very exciting to watch HelpAttack!, our little startup, start to gain traction. Over $1,400 has been donated to a variety of causes, and we’re starting to get our first signups from nonprofits who want to do more with the service. Read Write Web covered us and did a great job outlining some [...]
We’ve recently launched a complete website rebuild for Greenlights. Their web properties are actually spread across three distinct frameworks – Joomla, Wordpress, and SalesForce.com Sites. We started with design work from Creative Pickle, and made it all happen
We’ve had the opportunity to work with Samasource again this fall, and I wanted to follow up on an earlier post about them. Samasource lets first world companies outsource work to refugees, women, students, and other workers who otherwise would not be as able to find this kind of work. Leila Chirayath Janah: Ending Poverty [...]
