Foundations and poverty

Philanthropy has taken a bit of heat lately for not doing enough about poverty. First came the Google report that only a small percentage of philanthropic giving goes to poverty alleviation, either domestically or internationally. Then comes a rejuvenated public discussion (I’d call it a debate but I don’t think its happening broadly enough yet) [...]

Social enterprise on tv, web, next door

What are two of the hottest ideas of 2007? How about social enterprise and online videos? In the civil sector, 2007 might go down as the year social entrepreneurs went mainstream. As for every sector, 2007 is the year YouTube went from 0 to 100 million users and $1.65 billion and made everyone a video [...]

Fora.tv – curating ideas

I’ve posted before on the value of putting conference videos online. Today, The New York Times picked up the story on the new TED site under the headline “Giving away information, but increasing revenue.“ Bruno Guissani at LunchoverIP went even deeper on the topic, looking at several conferences that have made uploaded video a critical [...]