THE DREAM IN ACTION

Allen is at Big Brother Mouse I just received this picture of Allen (co-founder of LibraryforLaos.org) at Big Brother Mouse HQ in northern Laos. Allen had the opportunity to go to a BBM book party and watch and even help out with handing out the books THAT YOU”RE GOING TO DONATE FOR to the kids. [...]

Repost from Rolf Potts’ Vagabonding blog author Scott Gilbertson Most of us have seen things in our travels that make us want to help the people and places we visit. Whether it be extreme poverty, oppressive governments or even slavery, the world is not always a pretty place. Traveler Allen Burt went a step further [...]

In an effort to be a resource for many of my friends who have recently joined Twitter I’ve decided to post a quick list of Twitter safety tips. Many of these tips carry over to other social networks but they are written here as specific to Twitter. 5 Twitter Safety Tips Never give out personal [...]

via senoranderson Going through the earliest stages of startup have to be at the top of list for hardest things to do in business. Many will argue that the early stages are easy that’s why so many fail after a year, but the data on companies that never started just isn’t there. How many people [...]

via claudio_ramirez LibraryForLaos.org is an ONLINE campaign to raise $5,000 in 5 days for children’s books in rural Laos? It only takes 5 minutes! Dates: Monday, April 27 – Friday, May 1!!! This sprint campaign will be very powerful and will only last a week so make sure to act now then go tell all [...]

Give A Poor Child the Gift of Reading – In Just 5 Minutes! LibraryForLaos.org is an ONLINE campaign to raise $5k in 5 days for children’s books in rural Laos? It only takes 5 minutes! Dates: Monday, April 27 – Friday, May 1!!! Donate here.

Friends, I’ve never written an email like this before. Mainly because the lack of personalization, and also because I usually don’t like receiving them, please forgive me. I’ve recently been inspired by two phenomena on opposite ends of the spectrum: Impoverished illiterate children in the country Laos & the leveraged power of the social web. [...]

I know there are so many blog posts on Twitter now days but I was doing research on different Twitter clients and I’ve created a decent lists with my 1 sentence write-up. Still the best list I’ve found is at the Twitter PBwiki. Also, I’ve been thinking a lot about the affect of the celebrity [...]

No 10 mile run today. However, the weather was probably the best it’s been in the last 2 years of my life. I started the morning hopping on Yelp and finding an awesome little cafe called Caffe Capriccio in North Beach. Cafe Capriccio was the quintessential SF cafe with hipsters galore and breakfast egg wraps [...]

This weekend I got a free flight out to San Francisco from Chicago so I cam out to visit friends, meet some folks in the startup world, and soak up some California sun. I got up Saturday morning after a pretty calm evening and decided the best way to see some of the city was [...]

image via aknacer “We will be looking for someone with public company experience who can help take (Facebook) to the next stage in our growth.” – Mark Zuckerberg, an internal FB email I just finished reading Kara Swishers post on AllThingsD (from 2 weeks ago) about Zuckerbergs announcement that Gideon Yu’s departure, their now ex-CFO. [...]

via vadirajcs I’m pumped that now my Tweets feed directly to Facebook. All the friends that made fun of me for using Twitter are now commenting and joining in conversations around my Tweets and my blog posts that I share on Facebook via Twitter. This is a huge “crossing of the chasm” for Twitter because [...]

A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan A few months ago I wrote about the micro-financing organization Kiva.org and my donation/investment to Kiva. I think it’s a phenomenal organization. I wrote about my investments in some third world entrepreneurs through Kiva.org a few months ago here. I also found out today that [...]

Today, I have the opportunity of meeting author AJ Jacobs who wrote ‘The Know-It-All’ and ‘The Year of Living Biblically’. AJ writes with a very unique style. He lives out life experiments, like reading the entire encyclopedia, or living the bible as literally as possible, or outsourcing his entire life for a month, in order [...]

ActionsTalk on Boxee! from ActionsTalk on Vimeo. More and more of our lives are moving onto the web, but sometimes you just want to sit back and relax on your couch. Well, now you can do that with ActionsTalk, the weekly startup spotlights! If you have interest in being on ActionsTalk or have interest in [...]