Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
What? You’ve never heard of her?
Ada Lovelace was born in 1815, and she wrote the world’s first computer programs for the Analytical Machine, a device invented by Charles Babbage. Women’s contributions to tech aren’t talked about enough – today is aimed at changing that. You can read more about Ada Lovelace Day [...]
One day to go till I see Obama’s election campaign new media director Joe Rospars speak in Warsaw. I’m headed there with German social media activist (and Social Ch@nge guest writer) Sven Haertig. Have you got any ideas for us about what we can ask him? Email us at editor@netfornonprofits.org
Also, Social Ch@nge is working on [...]
Guest writer Sven Haertig looks at European fundraising both on and offline. A committed human rights activist based in Warsaw, Sven is the leader of Amnesty International Poland’s international volunteer group. Want to connect with him about non-profits in Europe? You can find him on Facebook where he’s working on Amnesty International Poland’s Page, or [...]
I just discovered the coolest widget on the New York Times website, and it’s making me think about new ways to represent community opinion.
The New York Times asked 200 people in an unofficial poll what their hopes were for the Obama administration. But it’s how they represented that information that’s really fun: they combined cloud [...]
Do you ever stumble across something, and wonder how you could have missed an entire field of study? Not just an interesting fact, but an entire body of research, whole teams of grad students slaving away…with you none the wiser? Okay, maybe it doesn’t keep you awake at night – it’s just me.
Still [...]
Remember the moment when Facebook went from the exclusive realm of your cool friends, to something that your grandma was on? That same moment just happened on Twitter…and not just to me. How can I tell that Twitter has hit the tipping point?
Well, first, check out the latest series of Doonesbury strips. It’s funny because [...]
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