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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup

Joaquin was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University. Joaquin currently serves on TechSoup Global's board of directors. Bailey Rosser is an audience development strategist at YouTube based in the YouTube Space Los Angeles.

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The social media for social good landscape

ASU Lodestar Center

As the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Social Media for Social Good infographic illustrates, several grassroots and nonprofit campaigns have effectively harnessed social media in the pursuit of their objectives. Twenty-first-century statecraft is but one approach to using social media to advance a social cause.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

9 Only the latest strategy in the militarization of urban space, facial recognition has unleashed a police armageddon on poor neighbourhoods, most notably in the vast carceral cities of Los Angeles and Shanghai. But Amazon is less the ‘everything store’, more a universal logistics system. Pasquale, The Black Box , pp.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. It has revolutionized communications on a global scale, and the transformation continues with every status update, blog post, and video stream. The global citizenry has become a global network. Social media has changed the world.

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