The creators of JibJab from JD Lasica on Vimeo. You know JibJab, right? The wildly popular online animation site has been around since 1999 but became a global phenomenon with their 2004 animated hit This Land, which spoofed the campaigns of John Kerry and George W. Bush. The short has been streamed more than 80 […]
Outsourcing in a socially responsible way
I finally have time to get to my backlog of video interviews, after changing jobs earlier this month.
Here’s a 4-minute interview with Leila Chirayath, founder and CEO of Samasource, a nonprofit social enterprise in Silicon Valley that that connects small and mid-size businesses with individuals and firms in the developing world that can perform outsourcing work (such as data entry) in a socially responsible way.
They now have pilot programs in Kenya, Nepal and rural India, and their goal, as their website says, is “to catalyze sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation by creating a thriving, active market for socially responsible outsourcing to developing regions.”
Review of ‘Groundswell,’ ‘Reality Check’
Two of the best-known names in Silicon Valley have new books out: Charlene Li (twitter: charleneli) and Guy Kawasaki (twitter: guykawasaki). Both fall into socialmedia.biz’s sweet spot, so here are quick reviews. ‘Groundswell’ Groundswell: Winning in a world transformed by social technologies, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, is the definitive guide to how businesses […]
Activism and the social enterprise
One of the extraordinary things about the Bay Area is the relative ease with which you can bring a large number of bright, passionate, committed people under the same roof. When it’s a bar, so much the better. And so it was earlier this evening when Sundeep Ahuja — a born connector and former marketing […]
Twitter addiction
I’ve known Twitter founder Evan Williams for a few years now — you can’t help but run into Ev at events like Web 2.0, TechCrunch50 (here are some photos of him) and Creative Commons gatherings — so it’s been interesting to watch Twitter grow from an interesting Web 2.0 tool to the cusp of a […]