Topic: Community
Seek, an Australian online job search firm, is finding social opportunities in this economic crisis. The company, with the help of The Boston Consulting Group, is using its technology platform to match volunteer do-gooders with non-profit organizations all over the country.
Australia already has a long-established history of corporations participating in community causes but the recent [...]
The east and west coast technorati showed up en masse at the recent IAB Social Media Conference in New York’s Roosevelt Hotel. From Facebook to Kraft and the social web’s premier designers, programmers and analysts - this audience was engaged and tweeting about thoughts all day. Best practices were unveiled, branded examples were shared, myths [...]
The NY Times points us to the German suburb of Vauban, a thoughtfully designed community where an astonishing 70% of its 5,500 residents live without owning cars. Completed in 2006, the one square mile neighborhood is comprised of multi-family row houses designed to be more energy-efficient with local businesses interspersed throughout in an attempt to [...]
At our 2009 New York conference, a panel led by Florian Peter (CScout) discussed how creators and the community openly come together to develop new thinking and make ideas happen. John Geraci (Outside.in), Scott Heiferman (Meetup), Avner Ronen (boxee) and Domenico Vitale (PI&C) explain how they leverage open communities to develop new products, services and [...]
Grand Rapids Michigan was the site of a massive public art project this past weekend. Thousands of participants used 30,000 multicolored sidewalk chalk sticks to draw all over several blocks of the city’s downtown. The first-ever Grand Rapids Chalk Flood, was organized by Rob Bliss, who has had similar success with other “urban experiments” like [...]
Featuring workshops approaching issues as diverse as Policy, Economic Development, Access, Health, Sustainability, and Organizing, the massive conference expects nearly 2,000 attendees. Five main co-sponsors, Caribbean Women’s Health Association, Brooklyn Rescue Mission, World Hunger Year, Brooklyn’s Bounty and the PSFC, and over 120 partner groups, have jumped on board for the inaugural event.
Skimming through Forbes list of the Top 25 Most Influential Personalities on the Web Today, we were struck by the common thread running through some of the best blogs today. Pundits like Guy Kawasaki, Jeff Jarvis and Steve Rubel have all led the pack of aspiring bloggers by sharing a similar approach: they share all [...]
Although community gardens might be nothing new, two UK based websites, Landshare and LandFit (temporarily on hiatus), are hoping to expand the concept in a radical way by putting would-be gardeners who lack the space in contact with those that would like to see their underutilized property put to good use. Time and again we’ve [...]
Massify has created an online model that enables filmmakers, actors and even the audience to “connect, collaborate and get films made.” And now the community fueled site is preparing to release its first project, a horror movie titled “Perkins 14,” set to premiere at Horrorfest III, January 9-15.
The step-by-step process that saw the film through from [...]
It seems Los Angeles is making progress in chipping away at it’s car-centric ways. StreetFilms has produced a great documentary that shows off LA’s vibrant bike co-op scene. Shops like The Bicycle Kitchen, Bike Oven and The Bikerowave let members use their open workshops to fix and build bikes and also learn from more experienced [...]
Interesting news from the worlds of citizen journalism and open source learning - the Oakland Press has just announced that they will be opening a classroom for citizen journalists. The newspaper will train anyone who’s interested in news writing, videography, photography and reporting basics. Once participants have finished their training they’ll have the chance to [...]
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