A Conversation with Michael Kinsley (Video from December 8, 2008)

The author of “Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett & Other Economic Leaders” gives insight to how top industry leaders see the role of business and philanthropy and the value that philanthropy creates for businesses.

Social Sharing and Volunteering: How Are Volunteers Spreading Opportunities?

With so much talk about Facebook Causes, we’ve already seen fundraising go viral. Can volunteer engagement do the same? At what level will volunteers share their service activities with their social networks?

A few months ago VolunteerMatch added the popular ShareThis application to our service. Now that we have the first reports of how our Web site visitors are using ShareThis, some of the findings may surprise you.

Social Sharing and ShareThis

ShareThis is a free sharing tool that makes it easy for users to share content via social networks and social news sites. ShareThis also offers plain old email as an option for sharing – although across the Web, ShareThis clickers have been choosing this less and less often.

VolunteerMatch added ShareThis as an option on our volunteer opportunity pages so that a user who is about to sign up to volunteer can share their interest with their friends on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, MySpace, etc.

The obvious benefit to tools like ShareThis is that they give our visitors the power to help increase the discoverability of organizations and their volunteer opportunities.

How Are Volunteers Sharing?

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CSR Minute: September 18, 2009 – Lexus Chooses Visible Light Solar Technologies; Time Magazine’s Values Poll; U of Tenn’s Frat Charity

Corporate Social Responsible News:Lexus Chooses Visible Light Solar Technologies; Time Magazine’s Social Values Poll; U of Tenn’s Frat Charity Event