Social Software

So I got invited to talk about User Generated Content at the National Volunteer Health Association next week. I am really excited to speak to them about what we are doing with User Generated Content and building community around it. From SharingHope.TV to our YouTube channel I think we have really embraced this social software as a mechanism for change ...

37,000 Uses for Cellphones The Helsinki Sanomat has an article on the general inventiveness of the Finnish people when coming up with new and useful cellphone applications. Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) asked the public for ideas for new ways that mobile telephony could improve the quality of life.  The article reads the Finns devised 37,000 cellphone uses – ...

If you’ve ever participated in a Relay For Life event, you know about the Ceremony of Hope. This is the activity that holds a great deal of meaning and significance for each participant. This is the time when participants light luminaries and stop to remember, honor and/or celebrate their cancer story. Today, to celebrate the upcoming National Cancer Survivor’s Day ...

An article in Fast Company looks at the impact of the maturing of social networks on the Internet: The spring of 2006 will go down as a curious moment in the annals of buzz. The mainstream-media steamroller caught up with a bona fide cultural phenomenon, then flattened it into a cliché before the average person knew what all the fuss ...