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30 Jun 2009One of the hot topics in nonprofit land this month is the launch of AllForGood, a new site that pulls volunteer opportunities from various nonprofit websites and aggregates them to make it easier for everyone to volunteer. Techcrunch does a nice job summarizing them. They’re a big deal, with lots of press, people calling them a “craigslist of [...]
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23 Jun 2009This weekend, I ventured west with fellow CommuniFounder Ben to San Francisco for the Craigslist Foundation Non-Profit Boot Camp.
It was pretty rockin’, to say the least. Around 1000 people were there to listen to attended to listen to the keynote speakers like Arianna Huffington and Craig Newark, attend breakout sessions, and just generally network and [...]
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21 Jun 2009CommuniTeach has a serious crush on Groupon, this crazy awesome website that offers one super deal each day from a local business. From cheap spa packages to restaurant gift certificates to Cubs rooftop games (!!) Groupon is great.
Interestingly, the Groupon parent site is The Point, a website designed to encourage people to become social [...]
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21 Jun 2009It has always been the secret evil plan of one of the CommuniFounders to create a website called CommuniTeach, have it become the greatest website of our time, and use it to find a super amazing computer programmer person to teach her how to create a website called CommuniTeach, and then naturally shut the website [...]
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14 Jun 2009Now, while it’s abundantly clear to me that the best way to learn something is to sign into your CommuniTeach account and request a learnit from a fellow CommuniTeacher, there are times when that is not possible. Like when you’re in your house by yourself in the middle of a hurricane or something. During those [...]
In: podcasts
2 Jun 2009Our first post!
So usually, your first blog post is about… well, your blog; a meta-post, if you will. But I’m feeling impatient and I heard this podcast that made me think of CommuniTeach. So I thought I’d share:
I like to listen to the HBR IdeaCast - Harvard Business’ short(er) audio sampling of their monthly publication. [...]