On September 11, Russ Porfilio began an 80-day trek across country on his mountain bike. Why? To honor the memory of his mother who succumbed to pancreatic cancer this past July. He’s blogging about his trip (via his blog, Was It All A Dream) and fundraising on Team ACS. He’ll be making his way through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, ...
Read More »Great Example – Using Blogs to Build Community
I know I keep pointing to the March of Dimes as a great example of a nonprofit using blogs but check out this profile of the March of Dimes Blog with Patty Goldman, e-Business Director.
Read More »Hey, Larry!
Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, has a $100M problem: What charity to give it to. Seems he’s been in hot water for an accusation of insider trading, so he’s going to donate 100 big ones to charity as part of the settlement (wonder why Martha didn’t think of that?) Well, since he owns Oracle, that now owns Siebel, that owns ...
Read More »Media trends
The NY Times reports Yahoo! has hired a war correspondent, so-to-speak, to do a new kind of war coverage. Kevin Sites will travel the world and report from hotspots. There’s a lot of them–36. But, if actualized, it’s the style with which he’ll do it that’s interesting. Sites’ Yahoo! boss says: "If we execute this the right way, it is ...
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