From the monthly archives: March 2009
People love lists, don’t they? Grocery lists. To-do lists. Blog lists. I decided to write up a list of some blogs I’m so thankful they exist I can’t help but show my appreciation for them by passing them to you my readers. So here they are along with my own personal commentary: Change.org’s Social Entrepreneurship–Led [...]
[This is part of a series of posts that will extend through the entire year of 2009 twice monthly according to my original post "My pledge to Kiva for 2009". To view all of my Kiva projects, take a moment to check out my Kiva lending page.] In this week’s Kiva Pledge Update I am [...]
I decided to increase 5 Noteworthy Links to 7 Noteworthy Links. I have such a large plethora of links to share that I feel the need to get them out in the open to people who might benefit from them. As always, if you have something to add to next weeks list, please send them [...]
The following exciting events are coming up in April. If you have a relevant event in 2009 you would like to have added to my list, please let me know. Name: WhereCampAfricaWebsite: http://www.wherecampafrica.org/Location: Nairobi, KenyaDate: April 4th, 2009 Name: Next Web ConferenceWebsite: http://2009.thenextweb.com/Location: Amsterdam, The NetherlandsDate: April 15th-17th, 2009 Name: Africa GatheringWebsite: http://www.africagathering.org.uk/Location: London, EnglandDate: [...]
I recently discovered NaijaPulse, an interesting new Nigerian startup created by the guys over at Naijand Inc. NaijaPulse is a microblogging service, similar to Twitter, that allows its users to send out short “pulses” of conversation and updates (limited to 140 characters) to friends and colleagues. I’ve been a user of Twitter for some time [...]
[This is part of a series of posts that will extend through the entire year of 2009 twice monthly according to my original post "My pledge to Kiva for 2009". To view all of my Kiva projects, take a moment to check out my Kiva lending page.] In this week’s Kiva Pledge Update I am [...]
ethicL-Buy and sell things that help humanity–I haven’t bought anything from ethicL yet, but it looks interesting. Hollywood in Juba-Big screen arrives in South Sudan after years of war (from BBC News) Anthony Brewitt: “Basecamp Changed My Design Process” (from 37Signals)–I use Basecamp for all of my .BIZ web projects and swear by it. Baseball [...]
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