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Of all the problems the new Obama administration faces–health care, national security, the economy, global warming–none is more pressing than energy.
No sooner than the 270th electoral vote was confirmed, bloggers and reporters started to wonder aloud about President-elect Barack Obama’s energy plan. In his campaign, the talking point boiled down to $150 billion dollars of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Charity'
The Heroic Ideal of Max Gladwell and Barack Obama, Part III
November 22nd, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 5 Comments
Tags: Alternative Energy · Charity
Change.org Shifts Strategy to Blogging and Content
October 8th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 4 Comments
Blogging wins out over social networking as Change.org shifts strategy from connecting to content.
Something profound happened today, and few seem to have noticed its true significance. The online activism platform Change.org relaunched its site with a new approach to changing the world. Change.org is still committed to the big issues of stopping global warming and [...]
Tags: Blogs · Charity · Social Networking
Kiva B4B Credit Card Helps Entrepreneurs Help Entrepreneurs
August 22nd, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 4 Comments
The Kiva Business 4 Business credit card makes micro-lending easy and more impactful with matching funds. Plus, a story about connecting through the social web.
The KIVA B4B BusinessCard credit card is one of a kind. It enables small business owners in the first world to make micro loans to budding entrepreneurs in the third world, [...]
Tags: Charity · Entrepreneurs · Social Networking
SocialVibe Rallies Blogs to Support Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C)
August 14th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 5 Comments
Charity-driven social media platform recruits bloggers in an effort to raise awareness and donations for Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C).
We’ve been working with SocialVibe over the past couple months (that’s a disclosure, in case you missed it), specifically on its marketing and social media strategies. Prior to this, we blogged about SocialVibe here and here. [...]
Tags: Blogs · Charity · Health
Ammado Is NGO Social Networking
August 2nd, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 3 Comments
The social networking for social good space continues to heat up with Ammado.com and a new NetCommunity feature from Blackbaud.
Is it a coincidence that social good and social media share first names? It has always seemed that the social web was purpose built to benefit humanity. It’s no surprise that so many entrepreneurs are leveraging [...]
Tags: Charity · Social Networking
Social Networks A Double-Edged Sword
July 5th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · No Comments
It’s possible that the power of social networking cuts both ways.
Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook (especially MySpace) have long been criticized for “enabling” child predators. The latest critique comes from Dr. Himanshu Tyagi, a British psychiatrist. According to a report by the BBC, Tyagi says that “people with active online identities might place [...]
Tags: Charity · Social Action · Social Networking
Your Subscription to the Social Web
June 30th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 8 Comments
What if we could subscribe to the social web through a centralized micro-payment platform that sustains the medium while supporting good causes? Would anyone pay?
We’ve got a business idea. Actually, it’s an idea for a foundation that could lead to business opportunities. And we’re going to share it, for better or worse. First, here’s the [...]
Green Map: The Mashup of Your Life
June 26th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 1 Comment
GreenMap.org is scheduled to release a new social mapping site in September. Here’s a preview.
GreenMap is a global map-making community that organizes the green landscape. According to the organization, the “Green Map System supports local Green Mapmakers as they create perspective-changing community ‘portraits’ which act as comprehensive inventories for decision-making and as practical guides for [...]
Tags: Charity · Social Networking
Down with the Cause
June 25th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 5 Comments
It’s all about the cause: YourCause, JustCause, FreeCause, Cause Wired, CauseCast, FoxyCause.
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” –Albert Einstein
The theme of this post is quite clearly “the cause”. It’s a term with a [...]
Tags: Charity · Social Networking · Web 2.0
good2gether Debuts Boston.com Do Good Channel
June 17th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 2 Comments
Social media service turns Boston-area bad news into good deeds.
Boston.com, an online news source for Boston’s greater metropolitan area, recently announced a partnership with good2gether, a social media web service that connects people to causes and nonprofit organizations. Through this partnership, good2gether will power Boston.com’s Do Good™ channel, a central location for people to get [...]
