Friday, September 19, 2008

Web leaders on economy: Keep calm and carry on | The Social - CNET News

Web leaders on economy: Keep calm and carry on | The Social - CNET News: "Standing at his company's booth on Thursday afternoon, one representative of a Web-based nonprofit shook his head with disapproval. 'Not enough people are talking about it,' he said. We all know what 'it' is.

In fairness, it's a stretch to say everyone was Twittering while Wall Street burned. The underlying attitude at the Web 2.0 Expo was one of sober acceptance, realizing that conducting business in 2008 is more difficult than it was in 2006."

Wired Campus: Gift Will Help Put Holocaust Video Testimonies on the Internet - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: Gift Will Help Put Holocaust Video Testimonies on the Internet - Chronicle.com: "Gift Will Help Put Holocaust Video Testimonies on the Internet

A $2-million donation to the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education will assist the organization in beginning work to store video testimonies of Holocaust survivors in a searchable Internet archive that will be available to the public, the foundation announced today."

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Red Cross Disaster Relief Tools » home

Red Cross Disaster Relief Tools » home: "Red Cross Social Media Tools You Can Use
$100 million fundraising campaign

This wiki's purpose is to gather all possible online fundraising tools together so it's very easy for anyone to access and use them to help the Red Cross. Please add your own creations as you see fit!


September 10, 2008
The Red Cross today launched a $100 million fundraising campaign for the Disaster Relief Fund.

We'll need the help of our social media faithful to get the money raised.

This space is dedicated to offering you tools you can use to help your own online fans, friends and family join the Disaster Relief Team."

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Wired Campus: New Social Network Hopes to Catalog All Researchers and Their Interests - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: New Social Network Hopes to Catalog All Researchers and Their Interests - Chronicle.com: "Richard Price, a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s All Souls College, is blasting an e-mail plea to every academic mailing list and blog that he can find asking academics to sign up for his new online directory of researchers worldwide. His goal is to create an online guide to who’s doing what, and where, so scholars can share information and collaborate."