SMC Seattle

Micah Baldwin has been working with social media since before it was cool.  (Remember BBS?)  Since then he’s created multiple start-ups, helped universities start online fundraising programs, and written for Mashable.  Oh, and he created twitter’s most famous meme #followfriday.
In advance of his talk at Gnomedex, he talked to Jennifer Cabala about influencing people online, [...]

Social causes tend to go nowhere if they are individual efforts. It’s a community that makes change. Is it any wonder then that nonprofit organizations see such promise in online social networks? The new tools of social media offer them inexpensive opportunities to rapidly increase the reach of their messages and have the potential to [...]

How do you raise awareness about a cause you believe in with no money and no help, while on the brink of homelessness? Mark Horvath is doing it with Invisiblepeople.tv. Once homeless himself, and facing homelessness again after losing his job, Mark decided it was time America really looked at the people who [...]