Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Then I plunged (late) into a session called “Discover a Hacker’s Mindset,” with Pablos Holman, which was chock-full of traditional hacking (lock-picking, credit card slurping) along with hacking the world: one on maintaining the arctic ice pack and the other on preventing hurricanes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

While most of our jobs don''t involve leading a tour of Marines through an ambush, or rushing into a relief zone just decimated by a hurricane, in today''s fast-paced, hyper-competitive business environment, we are ALL on the front lines, says Wood. And we can all benefit from a strategic way to approach problems and decisions," he adds.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2009

Prior to this study, the Index of the National Fundraising Performance had only been showing a gradual decline in donor numbers since the US Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. The study also showed that for the first time since Target Analytics released its initial study in 2002, overall revenue per donor declined by 2.1%.

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. Furthermore, this is the first time in eight years that we have a Democrat in the White House who is very supportive of major progressive causes such as health care reform, ending the war in Iraq, etc. However, things rapidly changed from Q4 in 2008 to Q1 in 2009.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

It's an amazing act of love really in response to the hurricane and the racial neglect that occurred down on the Gulf. He's an ex-Marine, has two sons in Iraq, is a arch Republican and right winger. We sat down and had organic tea together and talked about, you know, "What did you think of the President's address?"

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