Today, October 15th, is a do-something day online. Blog Action Day, supported by everyone from the UN to Friendster, is generating awareness of what everyday people can do to fight poverty, worldwide.
Creative Commons awareness is about letting people know they have a choice when they share their words, pictures, and images in public- they can [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Chuck Hester and the Pay it Forward Chronicles
Posted in LinkedIn, causes, social capital exchange, social media, socialmedia on Oct 8th, 2008
I profiled Chuck Hester of iContact in this piece about using Live Connections to Leverage Virtual Connections back in February. Now Chuck is taking his experiences with LinkedIn and writing a book on “Linking In to Pay it Forward: Changing the Value Proposition in Social Media.” His blog has one neat idea today:
THE PAY IT [...]
Question I’d love to see asked at the Presidential Debate
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2008
“Senator McCain, Senator Obama, your campaigns are both running ads that call the other a liar. Are either of you ready, on this stage tonight, to outright call the other person a liar and explain it? And if not, are you ready to stop that ad and take a more civil road to the White [...]
The Financial Crisis of 1873
Posted in economy on Oct 6th, 2008
From Scott Reynolds Nelson, a professor of history at the College of William and Mary, comes a thought piece on the similarities of the current financial crisis and the 1873 worldwide banking crisis.
The Real Great Depression - ChronicleReview.com
As in 1873, a complex financial pyramid rested on a pinhead. Banks are hoarding cash. Banks that hoard [...]
Project 10 to the 100th - A Google idea
Posted in Entreprenurship, causes, not-for-profit on Oct 3rd, 2008
Check out the video about project 10 to the 100th (10 to the 100th is a Google in math for those following along). There are no words, but the pictures tell the story really well
The idea, for those of you who don’t want to watch, is to see who has the best ideas to help [...]