Looking for new opportunities

Update: I’ve secured a contract which will keep me here until at least January, by which time I hope to have found an ongoing position which suits my skills and passions. I’m still open to any suggestions! ——— As I mentioned last week Small Act have decided to pull the plug on the San Francisco [...]

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A slight change of plans

A huge catch-up is in order. Since my last post I’ve been to Burning Man and back, where the camp I have been coordinating since January, More Carrot (hosts of the Black Rock City Farmers Market) made its triumphant debut. I owe a proper post about that, impossible as it always is to put Burning [...]

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What does Facebook Questions Mean for Non-Profits

This was my first post for the Small Act blog and was published there last week. Last week Facebook continued their two trends of appropriating the most successful features of other social networks and making what was once a closed network increasingly public. This time Facebook has borrowed from LinkedIN Answers, Yahoo Answers and Mahalo.com, [...]

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How Social Media Enhances Events presentation

As a result of two major Ashoka events this year I’ve been thinking a lot about how social media can enhance, leverage, expand and capture the content of events. Tech4Society and the Ashoka Future Forum were the most social media-enabled events Ashoka has yet run and many leassons were learned as a result. I co-hosted [...]

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Announcing what comes next

A couple of weeks ago I announced that I was departing Ashoka to move to San Francisco and that as such I was looking for the next opportunity to challenge myself and create positive social change. Today I am very pleased to announced that I will be taking up the position of Senior Social Media [...]

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