Natural disasters have been a part of human history since Noah. What has changed is how we get information about – and request help in the midst of – natural disasters. Thanks to digital media, we can get instantaneous reports about earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. from all over the world. But what about disaster that either […]
#SocialNetworks: Is Google+ Ready For Nonprofit Big Time? (Part 2)
Let us begin by respectfully noting the tenth anniversary of the attacks in New York City, on the Pentagon, and on the thwarted attack in Shanksville PA on September 11th. We hope those directly touched by the terrorists’ attacks have been able to find some modicum of peace over the decade. And we hope all […]
#SocialNetworks: Is Google+ Ready For Nonprofit Big Time? (Part 1)
First of all, we at MKCREATIVE wish you and yours a Happy Labor Day. May it be but one day away from work, as we await the political promises of jobs creation by the Republican candidates on Tuesday night, and President Obama’s long-awaited (LONG-awaited) jobs plan on Thursday. As those two events unfold, how will […]
#Communications: How Twitter Helped And Hurt The Spread Of Information In Two Recent Disasters
As social media become ever more deeply immured into our technology and information landscape, perhaps we should not be surprised that users of such media are starting to be held to standards once expected of reporters at TV stations and newspapers. On the other hand, some seemingly fine reporting about being a lesbian in Syria turns out […]
#SocialNetworking: Jumo And Good Join To Create Largest Nonprofit Network
We have followed the development of the Jumo website and network over the last year or so, and that organization has recently announced a development ‘merger’ with Good.is that will make it/them arguably the largest nonprofit socially-conscious network around. The union will bring together Jumo’s model of searching for and supporting projects by topics with […]
#Tech: Will The iPhone 5 Reinvent Mobile? In 2011? 2012?
Few companies or individuals spur a greater rumor mill than Apple or Steve Jobs. We may speculate over Sarah Palin‘s candidacy for president or Facebook’s next set of tweaks, but Apple has inspired more discussion about non-existent products and unsubstantiated reports than most anything else. And now much of that attention is focussed on the […]
#SocialNetworks: Google+ Defies Expectations And Thus Facebook
The fastest growing social network in history (at least until the next one) is now officially Google+, which has grown to over 25 million visitors since its launch a mere 5 weeks ago, according to Reuters. The numbers include the 7.5-odd million who have visited from overseas (India, Canada, Brazil, France, Taiwan…). So thus far things […]
#SocialMedia: First Advertising Tweets Go Out Today And Await Your Clickthrough
Twitter launches a new feature to create a revenue stream for the microblogging site. ‘Promoted tweets‘ will come through your Tweet stream, but instead of moving along that stream along with every other 140-odd character announcement, these will sit at the source of your stream for a while – unless you click through them. Indeed, […]