Micro-volunteering has gotten a lot of buzz lately. And with good reason--new applications enable mobile phone users to pitch in for causes without putting a dent in their schedules. You can fact check to help a reporter while waiting for your dinner date ...
Gillian Caldwell had a dream job. She was running WITNESS, an organization that safeguards human rights through multimedia technology. Everything about the work aligned perfectly with her values, talents and interests. She had also realized her long-time ambition of launching “a YouTube for ...
In Tribes, Seth Godin discusses the importance of leadership and the surprising places where leaders appear. A leader can be the CEO, but she can also be the intern. A leader can be President Obama, but he can also be the first person ...
When the punditocracy convened in late 2009 to assess the “aughts” (or whatever we’re calling the just-concluded decade), they focused on the War on Terror, the proliferation of reality TV, the fall of Wall Street, and, of course, that series of tubes that ...