In the past, if you wanted an online community for your organization, you had to choose.
Option 1: A topic-focused, highly reputable conversation platform, which is a complete time-suck, requiring you to sacrifice other work or stay up late moderating content to guarantee everything remains civil.
Option 2: A maintenance-free, lively discussion place that protects the anonymity [...]
Some of the SC Geeks have unofficially adopted the phrase “Think Globally, Act Locally” as a business motto. It is used by business and environmental organizations in various contexts, but to us, it expresses the ideal sustainable model: fed by local collaboration and compatible with the global community.
In that spirit, we have launched Hope Foundry. [...]
January 20, 2009 – 11:53 pm
The I Spot Compassion Girls
Yesterday, the MLK National Day of Service, was a big exciting experiment in the name of research for our Children’s Hospice project - I Spot Compassion. We were out on the streets of Santa Cruz asking folks to tell us where they last spotted compassion. We had adorable kids holding I [...]