Reuters:
TORONTO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Canadians who expected to start new jobs in call centers and retail stores during the holiday shopping season are instead manning food banks and soup kitchens with blessing of their new employe (Read More)
Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech:
I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of November 16th). You can join the conversations in the comments (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Moments after Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins the Wikimedia/Wikipedia advisory board things start to go crazy.Way back in 2006 Jason Calacanis, then an executive at AOL, was trying to convince Wikipedia to puts ads on (Read More)
Gizmodo:
You've seen the mockup of the Microsoft Store, now step inside for a look around the real thing. We asked Phoenix-area stringer Dennis Tarwood to head over to the snooty mall and check things out. Here's what he experienced: (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Facebook’s making a deeper foray into the world of virtual goods by adding songs and sports merchandise to its gift store. The company’s partnering with Lala.com to offer tracks for about 10 cents each. They’re DRM-free and y (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The capacity to do good with a video game is a fledgling concept. It has been around for a while, but has never been executed in an outstanding way. Zynga, the hot developer of social games on Facebook, is the latest to give (Read More)
mashable:
On Friday we reported about the #BeatCancer campaign to leverage social media for cancer charities. Their goal was to set a Guinness World Record for the most social mentions in 24 hours, which by Saturday had already topped (Read More)
Mashable!:
Twitter has been virtually taken over this weekend by a great cause: #BeatCancer gets brands to donate 1 cent for every tweet containing that hashtag. It’s been a huge success so far, with 200,000+ tweets being posted since (Read More)
Mashable!:
Over the past few months, there’s been a tremendous amount of activity in utilizing social media for charitable causes. Perhaps the most notable recent example is Drew Carey’s bid of $1 million for the Twitter name @drew, wi (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Oh, how I love fightorflight from Metafilter's checklist on why your plan to save journalism won't work. Top marks!Your post advocates a( ) technical ( ) legislative (X) market-based ( ) crowd-sourcedapproach to saving journa (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Listia, which launched just two months ago, is one of those startups that has grabbed my attention. And apparently investors like it, too. The company as raised a $400,000 angel round of financing from Implistic Capital. Part (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Glyn sez, "The Royal Mail has sent a 'cease and desist' letter to ErnestMarples.com, a website that provides a post code API allowing social projects to perform post code lookups [ed: due to the bonkers British law on databas (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Lunch.com founder J.R. Johnson has already made money. Now he wants his social network to foster critical thinking. “I don’t want to have people just say ‘I’m for universal health care,’ he told me on the phone this morning. (Read More)
Reuters:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Attorneys for Michael Jackson sued two California charities on Tuesday, accusing them of scamming the dead singer's fans by using his name and catchphrases to solicit funds.
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CNN:
Moving positive with Habitat St. Louis By NEAL MOORE ST. LOUIS, MO (CNN iReport) This video covers the “Habitat for Humanity St. Louis Build” of Saturday, September 26, 2009, along with the young family that are “moving posit (Read More)
Mashable!:
In early June we introduced you to our very first charitable initiative, The Summer of Social Good. The campaign, which raised a total of more than $55,000 equally benefiting LiveSTRONG, The Humane Society, WWF, and Oxfam Ame (Read More)
Mashable!:
One of the key challenges for modern organizations is to define a social media policy. What’s acceptable? What isn’t? And how should you go about creating such a document for your workplace?We’ve tried to aid with this pro (Read More)
CNN:
Akil Vohra quit a lucrative job in international trade litigation to take up something he strongly believes in -- as a legal expert, a Muslim and, most importantly, he says, as an American.
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Hottest Petitions - Care2: ThePetitionSite:
During an MTV Video Music Award ceremony on August 29, 2002, which also happened to be Michael's birthday, Brittany Spears introduced Michael as the artist of the millennium, to present him with a birthday cake. Michael was (Read More)