Journalists, as we have known them, are becoming obsolete. It’s not just that many reporters and editors at mainstream publications, doomed by a changed commercial reality, are losing jobs that [...]
Okay, so I’m exaggerating, but you’re reading this, right? It’s hard to get anyone’s attention during this crazy holiday season, so I had to take drastic measures. I bet you [...]
Lesson # 15: Capturing the Knowledge Last week our fearless Tech4Society event team leader put together a day devoted solely to distilling all of the knowledge we have or think [...]
Understanding human relationships is an essential part of being a successful businessman and a socially conscious individual. You need people to sustain your business and you need your business to [...]
The Christmas shopping season is here and we wanted to help you share in the spirit of the season by thinking twice about where you shop and what you give [...]
At Social Earth, our intent behind running a web blog that highlights social enterprise and humanitarian good is for our readers to experience the epiphany: “other people are doing it, [...]
Want to feel inspired? Seeking to change the world? You can. I’m big on motivational speeches, quotes, and videos. Today I would like to share with you an inspirational video a [...]
Yesterday I looked at reasons to be skeptical of metrics, which carry inherent dangers. However, that is not to say that metrics should be thrown out. Measures of your organization [...]
For me, some of the most refreshing moments come when I hear a young person talk about their life goals. Their voices are filled with hope, energy and drive. This [...]
My skater friends are just about to go stir-crazy with the amount of snow falling in the Midwest – at least the die-hard ones anyway. The others are snowboarding, but [...]
Are metrics imperfect? Can they do as much harm as good? Are they easily influenced by ideology and dogma? The answer to all of these questions, of course, is “of [...]
The threat of poor entrepreneurs taking on too much loan debt is a growing reality, and a genuine threat to the rapidly expanding microfinance sector. At Oikocredit’s annual staff and [...]
Road to Hyderabad: #14 On the Calm before the Storm As the people who receive an ever increasing number of emails from me at 6am can attest to, our time [...]
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