Archive for the ‘As Seen on the Web’ Category

Water Changes Everything

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Check out this inspiring new video by our friends at charity: water!

Is Earth Day your favorite day of the year? Do you care more about the sky or the trees?

Go to Your Nonprofits to find the perfect organization to support!

p.s. There’s an awesome fundraising contest going on right now – if you can pull together the most money for charity: water, you get to go to Africa with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett.

Bienvenidos a Malawi! (Gettin’ filtered with it? The Fresh Prince of Fresh Water?) The current leader has raised less than $12,000. You can beat that, right?

As Seen on the Web… Money, Health, and One Crazy Statistician

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

Seriously, we’ve never been so excited to watch someone talk about statistics.

In just four minutes, learn everything you need to know about the relationship between income and lifespan, and how the wildly the world has changed since 1810. Very cool.

As Seen on the Web… Even Hipster Photo-Sharing Apps Get Nervous Sometimes

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Ever hear of a little app called Instagram? How about a website called Hunch? Well apparently they were both created by real people, and in this video those real people are in the same room.

Chris Dixon talks about the long, weird journey from college to Instagram fame, and the terrible moments after the app launched for the first time. He’s interviewed by Kevin Systrom, the creator of Hunch and current darling of the tech start-up world.

As Seen on the Web… Girl Scouts Get Serious

Friday, February 11th, 2011

It’s hard to imagine Girl Scout cookies not selling themselves. (I mean, Thin Mints?!) But tomorrow’s captains of industry are today’s cookie-pushers, and everybody’s got to learn how to pitch sometime.

This will probably be the cutest little girl/ consultant interaction you see all day.

This Valentine’s Day, Try Not To Poison A Pregnant Farmworker

Friday, February 11th, 2011

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Do you know where your roses really come from?

This short 2008 Frontline documentary exposes some pretty heinous human rights abuses in Ecuador’s flower industry.

Try googling “fair-trade flowers” for your bouquet this year.

As Seen on the Web… Where the ladies at?

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

As Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg knows a few things about succeeding in a male-dominated industry. (Anyone seen the genius-male to lame-female ratio in The Social Network? Hmm?)

But in this awesome TED Talk, Sheryl gives us reason to believe that women can choose to sit at the desks in the corner offices if they just remember three things.

As Seen On the Web… The Future is Gray, Small & Female

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Paul Kedrowsky speaks at MIT about how the facts of life – namely, the effects of aging – are going to totally transform our society.

We think it’s pretty neat, and it makes us wonder what the economy will look like when the nation’s purse strings are controlled mostly by older women.