Just to toss out there, I’ve been thinking about changes in the volunteer sphere over time. Back in the ’70s when I started work in this field, there seemed to be a core of what I’d now call "traditional volunteers," people (most often women) who adopted a cause and an organization and then proceeded to dedicate many hours over many ...

Trish Snyder at Bloggingforacause dug up an old post by Ed Duke about "unaffiliated volunteers." She got a terriffic comment about the trend from another blogger, Dalene. Unaffiliated volunteers is a trend absolutely consistent with the participatory nature of the intenet. They can get thing done quickly by using the net to organize others for a goal. And they’re going ...

Here’s a link to a podcast on IT Conversations from BlogHer 2005 of a panel on blogging in business with Lisa Meyers Brown of Eastern Division. Lisa contributes to FISpace and is a member of the Futuring and Innovation Center team. Her own blog, The Rhetoric of Me, is blogrolled on the right.  The announcement says: At the 2005 BlogHer ...

A Wired article reviews whole categories of services and programs that Google has launched that are threatening long established software companies and conventional intenet services. It’s a good companion piece to an earlier post about the scope of Google services (out of date in just one week). For my money, Google is the paradigm-setter of the decade the way Microsoft ...