I’ve signed up to Rock the Red Pump and show my support of increasing awareness of how women and girls in the United States are affected by HIV/AIDS and to salute the courage and strength they face each day in dealing with this disease – and I think you should, too. You can follow them [...]

On the 25th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it’s only fitting that we focus The A-List today on social good and nonprofits. Join us for an insightful hour with Beth Kanter, who returns to The A-List to discuss her highly acclaimed book, The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change. [...]

I am thrilled to be teaching Understanding Google Analytics, an online course, for mediabistro. The first classes begin July 29th. That course is ending soon, but you can now sign up for the next session that will begin on Thursday evenings beginning October 7th. Sign up here. Here’s the course description: Business owners used to only [...]

Scott Beale had an amazing idea while working for the US State Department in New Dehli, India, and he decided to act on it… And four years later, we spent time discussing the success and promise of Atlas Corps, the nonprofit he founded to bring nonprofit leaders from the developing world to leading nonprofits in [...]

Perhaps the most exciting part of the World Cup (for me, at least…) is the official launch of the 1GOAL campaign. Learn more about the campaign to educate all and get involved here: 1GOAL is a campaign seizing the power of football to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 [...]

Funny coincidences happen all the time, and it just so happens that one of them reminded me that Kara Swisher needed to be on The A-List. I was watching CNN or BBC World News from my hotel room in Paris after the first day of the LeWeb conference. Lo and behold, I heard for the [...]

I was lucky enough to meet the brilliant Ryan Calo at a Social Media Club event I took part in. We might have been trying to get Lawrence Lessig on our panel, but we got more than we could have hoped for from Lessing himself. Ryan is an Academic Fellow, Center for Internet and Society at [...]

When I signed up to take part in Blog Action Day 2009, I thought, surely by the time I wrote the post, I would have something insightful to share about climate change. A personal story. A moment of enlightenment. A freakin’ antidote! But in time I could research climate change and draw from my own [...]