I took a week off from writing, for several very good reasons, and now I'm back.

To build trust between a consumer and a brand, people need to feel they’re sharing it with other people instead of a corporation pushing it down on them... The goal is...

Geek Girl Camp Cape Cod is a new mini-conference for the technologically-inclined of the female persuasion, and it is debuting next month right here on Cape Cod, in lovely downtown Hyannis.

Nonprofits have a hard enough time determining if, when, and how they should get shaking on Facebook or MySpace, the two massive players in the United States social networking space.

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The new multi-disciplinary blog aggregrator from Guy Kawasaki, Alltop.com, officially went live today. As noted here last week, the Nonprofit Alltop page looks to be a good at-a-glance resource for all the latest blog posts in the nonprofit world (primarily those in the United States, from the look of it, for now at least).

A New York nonprofit, Takes All Types, has announced a new program that will mobilize blood donors through Facebook, The New York Times reports.

The mega-festival that is SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive, also known as Spring Break for the Internet) has been underway for two days now, and many of us have been watching it from home through Twitter, Flickr, the occasional livestream, and related blog posts.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that donations to walkathons and other athletic fund-raising events rose 12% in 2007, according to a recent survey.

Words matter. Words can engage, encourage conversation, and foster understanding, but words can also shut others out.

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