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Delivering Happiness CEO Jenn Lim Shares Insights About Four-Day Workweeks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Jenn Lim Today, Lim shares these additional insights, thoughts and advice about four-day workweeks: Question: In addition to the research supporting a four-day workweek, why do you believe more companies should adopt this practice? Question: What is it going to take to convince more companies to try a four-day workweek?

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Interview: SXSW4Japan Raises over $120,000 #sxswcares

Amy Sample Ward

Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference. That morning, I saw the jaw-dropping photos and videos from the Japan tsunami disaster. Meanwhile, bloggers Leigh Duncan and Deb Ng were starting a grassroots effort to raise awareness and support for the Japan disaster too.

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Twitter Stats You Need To Know and Tips to Get More Clicks

Care2

33,000 : tweets per second in Japan during New Years. 80 percent : users on mobile in the UK and Japan. 17 percent : higher the click rate for tweets with a question mark. 33,000 : tweets per second in Japan during New Years. 80 percent : users on mobile in the UK and Japan. 400 million : tweets per day.

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How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

When people call in, your customer service rep has to answer the phone and deal with the person's question. One of the scenarios where it's especially important to be able to handle unusually high amounts of traffic is after a disaster, which is why Second Harvest Japan decided to host its Emergency Response Portal in the cloud.

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These stories come from all over the world such as US, China, Russia, Japan, etc. In Japan, we not only discussed how we can learn from each other through international collaboration but also set up networks of PhilanthroKids and even Awards within the region. He asked them a question. But he said, “No!

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

" 6 questions to prepare you for a social media crisis – "In social media, the disasters people talk about most are fundamentally crises of public relations. ." Check out this terrific interview with Joe – I'd love to hear your ideas, reflections and stories about how you are inspired to make change!

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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you’ve fundraised online before, ask yourself a few questions to get a baseline of what is achievable. After you think through these questions, create a well defined goal that follows the SMART framework : specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. How much have we raised online in the past year?

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