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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. 19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog. Early registration deadline is Nov. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us For me, it was interesting because living in San Francisco, the Tenderloin fascinates me. I think it fascinates a lot of people in San Francisco because it's almost like this zip code in the middle of the city right next to Nob Hill, which is a very affluent area.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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