Earlier this week, Jeff Cutler and I met with people from the Greater Boston Food Bank and brainstormed ideas to help them better use social media. It was a great conversation, and one that I have with many nonprofits that I work with. In an effort to help more organizations, I’ve listed below five quick [...]
For a little over a year now, Matt Knell, Meg Fowler and I — as Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) — have been using the social web to raise awareness (and funds!) for charities. In that time, we’ve noticed a sharp increase in social media being used for good causes, whether by organizations or [...]
Over four days, the recent TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, England “explored and made visible the Substance of Things Not Seen.” At the end of the first day, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown discussed how images — from Kim Phúc during the Vietnam War to Neda Agha-Soltan during the recent Iranian protests — unlock our collective [...]
When’s the last time you heard a guy give his two-week notice? Over the last several months, I’ve heard countless stories of friends getting laid off. From every industry imaginable. Both of my friends that write DesignBoston with me were let go in the last few weeks (Joyce is on vacation in Aruba, so I [...]
This morning, Lee Dryburgh approached me (via Facebook) to see if I’d be up for lending my voice to an in interesting plan he has going for his 2nd annual eComm Conference. eComm is the Emerging Communications Conference, being held this March in San Francisco. eComm explores many facets of emerging communications, from Mobile Social [...]
