1.What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter?
Baratunde Thurston ponders #MLK in Vanity Fair, and comes up with a solid quote: “All too often, Twitter encourages shallow understanding even from those who have your best interest at heart.”
2. Which charities spend the most on administration?
A pretty simplistic approach – the author doesn’t pick apart the different [...]
Code for America is a recent project in the US. The elevator pitch: attract high-quality programmers to speed up the process of ”opening up” government data. The non-profit brings together Web 2.0 talent with city managers, government officials. This is a great idea, a model for collaborating across traditional industry/government lines.
That said, I’ll be interested to see how this [...]
Traditionally, the roll-over into the new year is marked by a large serving of predications galore. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been digesting pundits across the blogosphere, and happily regurgitating / synthesizing their collective advice. What’s our conclusion, after all this (burp) research?
In the coming year, non-profits should…
1. Resist the Shiny Toys
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