The Realist Idealist

On the Social Sector, Politics, Using Technology, and Making Good Things (actually) Happen

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When You Build It, They Don’t Come …Right Away.

Posted by Jake · February 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

My great friend Marissa and I were talking on Wednesday about how actually accomplishing many of the best things we want to see in the world will probably mean a lot of – for lack of a better term – “suckiness” and time to get there.
Earlier in the day I was at an event [...]

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Category: Business · Silicon Valley · Social Enterprise
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Should Nonprofits Use Social Networks?

Posted by Jake · February 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Last week my boss asked me a question for which he claimed there was only one correct answer. No pressure, right? His question was, “is 100 million dollars a lot of money?”
Coming from the executive director of a medium-sized nonprofit (at least medium in budget size), I felt it was a bit of [...]

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Category: Community Organizing · Nonprofits · Social Networks · Technology
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