Max Gladwell

This post is a collaboration between Max Gladwell and Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser. It is the second in our series of #10Ways posts being published simultaneously across as many as 300 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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