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Not tolerating the intolerant

My thoughts"Most reject volunteerism in search of making money, satisfying career ambitions, relaxing or spending time with friends and family."Some volunteerism is fine, and I'm glad to help out when I can - but I don't think it can or should sustain an economy or nation. And yes, I think...

Tags: tolerance, volunteerism, apathy

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

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Inauguration 2.0: Citizen Networking

The confluence of Obama's call for volunteerism and involvement with the social networking movement equals the first inauguration with its own backtalk channel. by Richard Koman

Tags: Network, Twitter, Web 2.0, Portals, Government, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Social design advice for Starbucks

Social design advice for StarbucksDaily Discussion StartersIt's interesting how easy it is for huge organizations to start new activities. I tried to start a current events newsletter to promote discussion in classrooms, for more than a year, and finally I gave up because it didn't get any traction. ...

Tags: Social networking, Starbucks Corp., Social design advice, Social Design

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

Brief: 4

This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals 2.1 Processes and ground rules Three kinds of IT proposals come to the board for...

Tags: Project, Information Technology, Board, Benefit, Bottom Line, Decision, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-02-01

How the Non-Profit Industry Embraces Business Intelligence to Add Value to Memberships While Keeping a Lid on Operating Costs

Advocacy, education, research, networking - a membership association's value proposition hinges on its ability to provide intelligence to its members. This task is becoming more difficult as associations increasingly find themselves in a marketplace where diminishing dues revenue and decreased "Volunteerism" are commonplace, and where for-profit organizations increasingly compete for...

Tags: Association, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Intelligent Solutions, Management, Marketing, Pricing, Software, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-11-15

Salesforce for Google AdWords: Promoting human welfare?

What is philanthropy?Goodwill to fellowmen; active effort to promote human welfare (Merriam-Webster).In Why Google is more dangerous than Microsoft last week, I dissect how Google.org, the "philanthropic arm of Google,” does not present as really being about do-good philanthropy at all.Google does not accept funding requests, Google.org underscores. Why a "Google Grants" program then?To...

Tags: Google, Culture

Blog posts 2007-06-05

Are we all just spare cycles?

Chris Anderson of The Long Tail suggested recently that much of the work on open source is done through "spare cycles," and that such excess capacity is a major driver for progress. (Picture from Ken Conley.)Scott Gilbertson of Wired immediately took umbrage, citing a study showing 65% of contributions to...

Tags: Development, General, management, Strategy

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Social Capital Theory Meets Web 2.0, by Donna Bogatin

SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY MEETS WEB 2.0by Donna BogatinInteractive Presentation Authored by Donna BogatinFor presentation at IBM Research Center, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 11am I am invited to share my Web 2.0 thoughts with T.J. Watson Research Labs. In Web 2.0 and blogosphere fashion, my presentation to IBM will...

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Usability, Enterprise, Blogs, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Brands, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2007-02-05

When (and why) social media fails...

When and why social media fails...Technology exists, organisation, focus and will power requiredMuch of the technology for facilities to empower "local journalism" already exists, what is needed are people who are ogranised enough to collect the technology together and present them under a unified front. Taking these excellent points in...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, radio, media, local government, government, social media, tool

Discussion threads 2006-12-21

When (and why) social media fails...

Im just getting back to real life after having lost power after the storm that hit Seattle last Thursday night—we got electricity last night. It was interesting to me that all the blog/social media created around the event, mostly by the various news outlets, managed to add precisely nothing to...

Tags: Blogging, social media, blog, journalism, power company

Blog posts 2006-12-18

The Business of Changing The World: Corporate Philanthropy

Last night I attended a dinner to celebrate the release of The Business of Changing The World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy, a book by salesforce.coms Marc Benioff written with Carlye Adler that covers corporate philanthropy, with essays by Michael Dell, Craig Barrett Intel, Mike Eskew UPS, Jean-Pierre...

Tags: Venture capital, Marc Benioff, nonprofit

Blog posts 2006-10-05

Simon Phipps gets it right (finally)

At EclipseCon 2004, Sun's Simon Phipps gave a keynote address before a tense audience on the virtues of open source. This was before NetBeans was re-invigorated, when there was talk of Sun joining Eclipse and teaming up on IDE development. The message...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse, Simon Phipps, open source

Blog posts 2006-07-05

Sun: Open source is about self-interest

Sun: Open source is about self-interest$un does not get it!"The open-source community needed to look to the lessons of capitalism and capitalists, said Phipps."If $un's goal is to squeze people of money using OSS, than screw them!We should not become a tool for aiding another M$ wana be.For a refreshing...

Tags: Government, OSS, open source, Phipps, capitalist, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-06-28

The decentralized future of security

Gary Wolf in the December Wired wrote an article called "Reinventing 911," which is definitely worth a second look, or a first look if you missed it in the flood of holiday junk mail. Here's the basic idea, as voiced by Art Botterell, author of a disaster alerting system called...

Tags: Homeland security, Gary Wolf, security

Blog posts 2006-01-24

Yellow Shirt Odyssey 2.0 (Mac)

A comic game satirizing university volunteerism and cliquey social programs. Dodge killer homing bush turkeys, catch freshers in your coffee cup of procrastination, and avoid dreaded Brown Shirts. Not immune to the odd student joke, but fun for all.

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Software Ground Fresh Daily, Tools & Techniques, Games, Desktops, Management, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-07-14

SageCRM.com - Helping Create Lifetime Relationships at Big Brothers Big Sisters

The Big Brothers Big Sisters organization is one of the nation's most respected charities. In 2004, the organization's growth showed signs of slowing. Donations were flat and volunteerism was down. What the organization obviously lacked was a cohesive method of tracking individuals involved with the charity. The new executive director...

Tags: Executive Director, Relationship, Sage Software, CRM, Big Brothers Big Sisters Organization, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

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