Crowd-Sourcing Disaster Relief
Jeannie Stamberger discuss how to write retweetable messages, how to separate legitimate helpers from posers and how to use social media to prevent loss of life.
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Back to the Future: Will We See a New Generation of Nonprofit Organizations in 2011?
There are new leaders coming into the nonprofit sector with ideas that have the potential to change the way social change happens. It’s time to ask some new questions.
Curling Up with E-Readers
Worldreader.org is using electronic reading devices to catalyze a new culture of global literacy.
Early Thoughts About Jumo
Some early impressions of Jumo, a much-heralded social networking site for stimulating, coordinating, and occasionally funding social change.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
Review
Food Solutions
The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It by Julian Cribb
Social Innovations
Stopping Child Porn
Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast.
Bring Polluters Back In
Research reveals why low-income minority neighborhoods are often the site of the worst environmental polluters.
Virtual HIV Prevention
Health education is at a crossroads, and interactive computer games may be a guiding force.
Machine Politics
The information systems we're building are starting to get better at taking input from crowds and using it to help us mine data for what we will most likely want or need.