Recently I linked to The Girl Effect video. Today I want to share a video produced by Charity: Water. Charity: Water was founded by Scott Harrison who was on the Bringing Philanthropy Online panel with me at the Council on Foundations conference. Scott was a photo journalist before founding Charity: Water and his background becomes [...]
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More Googlization
April 29, 2009 – 7:48 am
My recent Chronicle of Philanthropy column was about the Googlization of Philanthropy and the ways in which third party web applications can effectively organize philanthropic data so long as social sector players digitize their knowledge and make it accessible. I specifically was not making the point that Google the company should dominate this process. But [...]
The Hallways at the Skoll World Forum
March 31, 2009 – 5:00 am
It is a tired, but true, saying that the best conversations at conferences happen in the hallways. I’m disappointed that I didn’t get to go to the Skoll World Forum this year, not so much because of the sessions I missed, but because of the hallway conversations I wasn’t there for. But thanks to Nathaniel [...]
Why Philanthropy Wins in a Web 2.0 Culture
February 12, 2009 – 10:01 am
The business world hasn’t yet figured out how to deal with the way that the web makes sharing information incredibly easy. From newspapers, to music labels to anything that can be digitized, the web has destroyed business models that rely on ownership and control of information. Almost all profits comes from the control of certain [...]
Tactical Philanthropy Forum Video
December 9, 2008 – 9:29 am
The video of the Tactical Philanthropy Forum is now available on Fora.tv. You can watch the first 15 minutes of the event via the embedded video or jump below to read about viewing the full hour long program and accessing specific segments. You can watch the full video here. If you want to jump around, [...]
Life = Risk
July 21, 2008 – 8:02 am
One of the core lessons of financial markets is that you can only increase returns by increasing risk (you can be more talented than other people at any given level of risk, but the level of risk is the primary determinate of long term returns). I’ve been talking for a long time about why the [...]
Bill Somerville on CBS
June 11, 2008 – 10:55 am
A producer at CBS read my Financial Times column about Bill Somerville and asked Bill to take them on the same field trip that he took me on. The result is this three minute video with the news crew visiting all the same places that I mentioned in my column. Click here to view the [...]
