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  Chase Bank Asks Facebookers How to Give Away $5 Million

  By Katherine Gustafson | Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:55 AM ET

  people are still trying to figure out what works best and where the advantages of social fundraising can be found.For corporations, it seems, social Networking tools can be used as a marketing tool as well as a giving mechanism. Along those lines, here's a new idea from Chase Bank and Facebook: Read More

  More like this in: Non-Profit, Facebook, Nonprofit, Celebrities, Social Networking, Eva Longoria, David Robinson
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  3Com Joins HP

  By Marc Hertz | Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:45 PM ET

  around by Cisco, a rival of HP. Two of Cisco's bigger recent purchases included a $2.9 billion acquisition in mid-October of Starent Networks, a Networking infrastructure provider for mobile operators, and a $3 billion purchase of Tandberg, a video-conferencing company, in late September. A Read More

  More like this in: TechCrunch, Business, Technology
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  Social Media's Downside? Bad Manners

  By Katherine Gustafson | Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:57 AM ET

  Are you treating your online "friends" with the right consideration? Read More

  More like this in: Facebook, Social Networking, Washington Post, relationships, Technology, Social Responsibility, Tech Does Good, Gadgets, Culture, Relationships
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  'A Global eBay for Caring'

  By Katherine Gustafson | Fri Nov 6, 2009 1:23 PM ET

  are being joined by new ones all the time, including the recently released HopeMongers Cooperative and DoGoodr.org. A panoply of social-Networking-for-social-good sites, such as TwitCause, Facebook Causes, Change.org and Network for Good, are using the power of social media to hel Read More

  More like this in: Bill Gates, Barack Obama, eBay, Activism, Copenhagen, DonorsChoose, TwitCause, GlobalGiving, Network for Good
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  Status Update Leads to Arrest

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Mon Oct 5, 2009 6:40 PM ET

  be worth up to $10 billion, according to the Huffington Post. Seems like an astronomical figure until you realize just how addictive the social Networking site is. Its users have a compulsive need to post status updates – even at the most inopportune times.The UK's Telegraph reports that Read More

  More like this in: Facebook, Social Networking, Police, World, Technology, Europe, Culture
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  Android Smartphones Begin Hitting the Shelves

  By Judy Mottl | Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:27 AM ET

  devices coming to market.The LG-GW620 (at right) offers up a 3-inch full touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keypad that promises to make social Networking tasks easier than ever, according to a press statement. "The LG-GW620 will appeal to first-time smartphone customers by offering a new an Read More

  More like this in: Google, Social Networking, Electronics, T-Mobile, Android Phone, Technology, Gadgets
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  Facebook and the Green-eyed Monster

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:26 AM ET

  According to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada and described in Science Daily, young adults who are into social Networking “may be exposed to information about their partners that makes them jealous, leading them to spend more time involved in onlin Read More

  More like this in: Facebook, Social Networking, Science Daily, MySpace, Technology, Science, Life & Style, Gadgets, Healthcare, Relationships
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  “Young World-changers and Trailblazers”

  By Katherine Gustafson | Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:23 AM ET

  The new TED Fellows program brings innovative practitioners from around the world to experience a conference of big ideas. Read More

  More like this in: Technology, TED Conference, Science, Social Responsibility, Entertainment, Innovation & Discovery, Events, Activism, Events
• Is it possible to make money and make the world a better place?

  By Intent dot com | Tue May 26, 2009 4:34 PM ET

  important,” says Gregory Wendt, director of sustainable investing for Enright Premier Wealth Advisors in Los Angeles and founder of Green Business Networking. “Socially responsible investing is about using your social, environmental, ethical and spiritual values to inform your financia Read More

  More like this in: Bank of America, Business, Economy, Eco-Friendly, Los Angeles, Washington, Carbon Footprint, Activism, Daily Green, Community Development, Eco-Conscious
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  Nonprofit of the Week: Inconvenient Youth

  By Dan Estabrook | Tue Sep 2, 2008 2:06 PM ET

  will return to their own communities and enlist thousands more teens through local workshops, climate change clubs, presentations and social Networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. It's pretty amazing that a group like Inconvenient Youth has risen to the challenge of solving th Read More

  More like this in: Non-Profit, Climate change, Global Warming, Nonprofit, Social Networking, Stanford University, An Inconvenient Truth, We Can Solve It