The Carnegies, the Mellons, the Rockafellers, the Buffetts… They all made scads of money in their chosen careers. They all founded foundations and gave away scads of money in their later years. Nowadays, Carnegie (to pick one example) is probably better known for his libraries and university endowments than he is for how he made […]
#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 […]
#SN: Apple Integrates Twitter In Operating System-Whither Facebook?
For the Apple-centric, Apple-desirers, and Apple-nutcases, a Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC (World Wide Developers’ Conference) is worth two offered by mere mortals – even those on Cupertino’s payroll. This past week in California, Apple announced a number of features that focused on a ‘post-pc’ world (not a world without personal computers, but a […]
Was 2010 The Year Of Social Media?
Mark Zuckerberg got bio-pic-ed and chosen Time’s Person of the Year in 2010. The iPad gave us opportunity to carry the internet with us (something our phones let us do for a couple of years, but who wants to type even 140 characters with those phone keyboards?). Foursquare joined the ranks of social media, especially […]
Twitter Aflutter With News Of Zuckerberg as Time’s ‘Person Of The Year’
Oh, the irony. Yes, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and subject of the fictionalized bio-pic “The Social Network” is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year (POTY in Tweetspeak). Yet the Twitto-/blogo-spheres are full of comments, reactions, and largely surprises at Time’s choice. Perhaps the medium is indeed the message, for much of the criticism of […]
Facebook Update: Going Places And Making Deals
One of the leitmotifs of the fictionalized biopic “The Social Network” concerns Mark Zuckerberg‘s inability/unwillingness to commercialize the burgeoning behemoth that he and his peers have conceptualized and coded. If that inability/unwillingness to imagine the commercial opportunities of Facebook were true as portrayed in the film, the CEO has certainly overcome his shyness of the […]
Some Guides To Fundraising In A Tepid Economy
As has been reported over the last week or so, and touted to little effect by Democrats seeking (re)election, the US Economy officially came out of recession in July 2009. What has also been reported, and touted to better effect by Republicans, is that unless you are a Wall Street banker, you might not have […]
#Social Networks: Facebook Has 500 Million Users, Not 500 Million Fans
Yesterday we saw some of the early history of Facebook and how that history might be pumped up by the movie “The Social Network,” due out this fall. The CEO and one of the inventors of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, seems comfortably nonplussed about the movie’s sexy spin on his and his friends’ efforts. But other […]