I wanted to write a short post simply to highlight a piece of volunteerism related software that I think does a lot of things right. In the spirit of MailChimp, BasecampHQ, Freshbooks, Threadless, and other darling websites, it does one thing well: Helps people self-organize their volunteer activities and volunteers. Where this really hits a [...]
Internships. The only way to get a job out of college. Résumé builders. Sometime in December, I was attentively sitting in PR 305 anxiously waiting for class to begin when in walks a guest speaker—score! No class today. Perfect time to stream the soccer game to my laptop—who claimed he worked for the American Cancer Society. [...]
Over the past two years we’ve had occasional involvement with a very interesting research project in Malawi. Malawi is in Africa, near Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique; I’ll save you the search. The project has to do with microloans. If you want to know more, or get involved, check out OptInNow, Kiva, BRAC, and perhaps the [...]
I’ve been nodding along with both sides of the ‘slactivism’ debate for a few months. Is it a good thing to give people small, low (but not zero) impact opportunities to help out causes? Do micro-donations and micro-volunteering discourage later, more significant engagement? Well, either nobody knows for sure, or nobody has measured it, or [...]
I’m getting some heavy-handed guilt trips for missing their talk last night at the Austin Social Media Club, but it’s a great concept and a fine thing to have in Austin. Also, the graphic and arresting “Fowl Play,” at last year’s screenings, put us firmly on the path of not buying eggs anymore. Here’s their [...]
