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Audrey Watters
Audrey Watters is a Justmeans staff writer for Social Media. She is always on the lookout for tech startups that are innovating around social learning, collaboration, and communication.
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The USDA Announces Winners of the Apps for Healthy Kids Competition
Social Enterprise: The USDA has announced the winners last week of its Apps for Healthy Kids competition. The competition was a part of Fi...
October 04 -
Zynga CEO Says Social Gaming Helps Make the Daily Grind More Meaningful
Social Enterprise: Speaking on a panel yesterday at the Techcrunch Disrupt conference today, Mark Pincus, the CEO and founder of the socia...
September 28 -
Want to Report a Problem at School? Perhaps There Should Be an App For That
Social Media & IT: Although crisis-mapping is often associated, as the name suggests, with the crowdsourcing of data during a time of cris...
September 27 -
Interested in Mapping and Social Media? Check out the Crisis Mappers Volunteer Task Force
Social Enterprise: We've written here before about how the development of "crisis mapping" is merging social media, location-based network...
September 27 -
Catchafire Launches Service to Match Volunteers and Non-Profits
Social Enterprise: Despite all the networking and new opportunities provided by social media, it can still be a challenge to match people...
September 27 • 1 -
SocialVest Allows You to Do Good While Shopping
Social Enterprise: The Atlanta based startup SocialVest announces today an open beta of its online and in-store shopping platform that aim...
September 21 -
CauseOn Blends Group Discounts and Community Giving
Social Media & IT: Over the last few months, the group buying trend has really taken off in social media, with companies like Groupon and...
September 16 -
Worldreader.org Delivers E-Readers to the Developing World
Social Enterprise: Education and literacy are the cornerstones of economic growth, but in many parts of the developing world access to rea...
September 15 -
Vacant NYC Draws a Crowdsourced Map to Address Homelessness
Social Media & IT: "The city says it cannot afford to count vacant property. We think it can be done for free." So reads the banner at the...
September 14 -
1000Memories Creates a Space to Digitally Honor Departed Loved Ones
Social Media & IT: Today marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and both mainstream news and social media are full of stories a...
August 29 -
YouTube Asks What You Think of Human Rights, Social Media, and Online Video
Social Media & IT: With the increasing accessibility to social networking and video-making capabilities has come the rise of a citizen jou...
August 27 -
Using Social Media to Share 50 Years of Peace Corps Stories
Social Media & IT: The Peace Corps will celebrate its 50th anniversary this fall, and in order to help generate awareness about the organi...
August 21 -
"Voices on the Gulf" Fosters Community Media in the Gulf
Social Media & IT: It's been several months now since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. News about the spill, both in mainstream and in soc...
August 16 -
Can Social Networking Help Us Better Connect to Social Causes?
Social Media & IT: Causerific is a new social networking platform that, in the words of founder Tolu Babalola, hopes to "connect all the p...
August 10 -
Crowdmap Offers a Cloud-Based Crisis Mapping Service
Social Enterprise: Improvements in mapping and mobile technologies have helped facilitate the development of new social innovation tools t...
August 09 • 1 -
Is the Future of Education Online?
Social Media & IT: Since stepping down as the CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates has tackled many social issues and in particular has been a pro...
August 09 • 1 -
EVOKE: A Social Game Makes Real World Change
Social Media & IT: _EVOKE was a free-to-play online social network game, sponsored by the World Bank Institute, that encouraged participan...
August 07 -
What Wikileaks Means for Technology and Media
Social Enterprise: _The website Wikileaks published over 90,000 documents leaked U.S. military documents from the war in Afghanistan on Su...
July 28 -
Update from OSCON: The Open Source Movement Tackles Health Care
Ethical Consumption: The O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held this past week in Portland, Oregon. The annual conference is an op...
July 27 • 1 -
NeighborGoods, An Online Network Promoting Actual Sharing
Social Enterprise: When we talk about "sharing" online nowadays, we are most likely referring to social media -- the act of sending our fr...
July 19
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