Tag Archives: causes

Innovative, social web ways to do good

Mashable today has an excellent post about ‘9 ways to do good‘, it highlights great examples of new means for people to support causes using social media.  Examples range from location based apps through which one can ‘check-in’ and donate to a cause, outsourcing tasks to refugees and crowdsourced microtasks done through smartphones. These 9 [...]

Facebook – the future of Charity Shops?

There’s speculation that Facebook will develop a new universal currency, Facebook credits, which could be used to buy physical, not just virtual gifts, as has been the case so far. The social networking site is also currently experimenting with charity gifts. Although the development of a merchant platform is still at the alpha stage, and [...]