One of the challenges of competitions is what happens after the prize money is awarded.
Winners get fame and recognition, and, if they are lucky, introductions to partners or benefactors that can fuel their growth.
Net Squared has faced this, as...
I love my phone. Not so much for the phone part, but for the little computer in there that connects me to the world, no matter where I am.
The phone has our calendars, our mail -- and, increasingly, our volunteer opportunities. It's the day timer...
As part of our new Citizen-Centered Solutions blog series, where we are exploring programs that ignite and embrace public participation, I caught up with Marnie Webb, TechSoup Global’s co-CEO, to ask about how public participation works at...
I like Apple's computers and phones. (It's a vice, I know.) Over the past couple of weeks all of this iPad, iPhone iNews has allowed for plenty of indulgence of that vice.
But yesterday, Steve Jobs said something that could impact how people find...
So I’m growing a mustache—for cancer.
Participatory fundraising has become popular for very good reason. We run races, we walkathon. And—around here anyway—we grow mustaches.
Movember = Mo(ustache) + (No)vember
Movember is just like a walkathon,...
November is National Novel Writing Month, in which people set out to write a novel in a month. The idea is just crazy enough that it works. Last year, more than 119,000 tried it, and 21,000 writers completed their goal of 50,000 words in the month....
The past couple of weeks have seen drama for Kiva, the successful funder of international person-to-person loans—drama on the blogs, anyway. Bloggers criticized Kiva for misleading donors, of telling a persuasive story about its operations that wasn...
Today Mashable's Social Good Conference in New York celebrates the culmination of the Summer of Social Good campaign, which leveraged the power of social media to raise funds for four nonprofit organizations. The day-long...
In 1787 the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade began what became the first modern public awareness campaign. Abolitionists painstakingly documented conditions in the slave trade, publishing broadsides (like the graphic at left),...
You may have missed it, but Monday’s news that Facebook acquired FriendFeed made a big splash in the (comparatively small) pool of FriendFeed users. According to the announcement, “FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being...
