Bite-Sized Goodness
The Extraordinaries have created a web-based platform that allows people to easily volunteer short amounts of time.
Technology & Design Innovations in technology and design that serve the world
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Friending, Texting and Tweeting: Social Media and Community Foundations
From new conversations emerging at the Larger Community Foundations meeting, social media is becoming a hot topic for future development by foundations.
The Effects of Joining the Conversation
Best practices for organizations to utilize social media more effectively in order to join important conversations online.
Grassroots Concrete
Build Change is shaking up construction practices in earthquake-prone areas.
Internet Exchange Rates
New media broadened exposure, but greater passivity reduced the currency unit of each view. How do we understand those units?
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
The Information Age Goes Old School
Is the digital divide a thing of the past?
Why Social Innovators Need Design Thinking
Design is a process especially suited to divergent thinking—the exploration of new choices and alternative solutions.
Big Data for Social Innovation
Nonprofits lag behind business and science in using big data effectively.