Nothing could make me more proud to be an American Cancer Society employee than the following announcement (from the Link, folks): American Cancer Society Involvement in the PBS Series: "Remaking American Medicine" In support of the American Cancer Society’s nationwide priority to improve quality of life services and policies through community mobilization, collaboration, and advocacy, the Society has committed to ...

Arienna Foley at Get Real has a good post about the social networking qualities of Flickr. I think she gets at why Flickr draws people in and creates community more than any other photo site. Again I say, I think Flickr offers to the ACS a cheap opportunity to explore the power of community building and of pushing an event ...

From Wired: Former Vice President Al Gore unveiled a new interactive cable TV channel for the internet generation Monday that blends the immediacy of video blogging with the voyeurism of reality TV. Current TV, formerly known as IndTV, will be launched Aug. 1 and will aim to combine the interactivity of the internet with the couch-potato pleasures of TV. The ...

From the Washington Post: The Senate Finance Committee yesterday listened to a range of suggestions for dealing with the tax cheating that experts say is widespread among charities and other nonprofits. Yesterday and in earlier hearings, the committee has heard a stream of testimony from the Internal Revenue Service and experts on Congress’s own staffs about abuses by charities and ...