Posts Tagged with ‘charities’

It is quite obvious that we could not do without a special meme on Twitter for Halloween and it is there, of course - Chris Brogan and Bryan Eisenberg came up with the idea of Trick or Treat Twitter style, properly named Trick or Tweet here.
The idea is to do something good no matter what the choice eventually is - be it connecting people or raising money for charities. So you start by sending the Trick or Tweet message to [...]

I have received an interesting piece of news about a new success for SocialVibe - a new project that is intended for its users to raise money for charities via social media. The company announces that over the 6 months since the product was launched in public beta its members reached an important milestone: $100,000 raised for various participating charitable organizations.
I have realized recently that we often talk too much about the applications, services or networks that serve [...]

There have been a ton of globally and ecologically aware companies that have caught my eye over the past few weeks, so many that I feel like I'm playing catch-up just to get a chance to look at them all. I had several new-to-me companies saved in my browser, and at first glance, I wasn't at all happy with what I saw.
The first three companies are all Web 2.0 donation companies. Obviously, the success of microlending organizations like Kiva led [...]

I was out of town when I received this news, so it is a little late coming but significant enough for all of us to make an effort on. Tim Ferris, a NYT's Best Selling Author, just launched the largest online literacy and educational experiment ever attempted. LitLiberation, in conjunction with DonorsChoose.org and RoomtoRead, have set a goal to raise $1 million dollars in 30 days via mostly tech blogs. My friends at FutureWorks jumped in as have dozens of [...]