Tweets from Samasource- Samasource: Rare opportunity to learn about economic development first-hand: Calcutta & Haiti Senior Associate positions available: http://bit.ly/9CfG6w
- Samasource: Red-hot: Samasource growth thaws a frigid San Francisco Summer - Pamela Pavkov recounts her Associate time @samasource http://bit.ly/ddTpUf
- Samasource: RT @arrington: Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief http://t.co/RWJ8Gns via @techcrunch
- Samasource: @leila_c in @techcrunch on how @samasource uses data to make disaster relief more effective: http://tcrn.ch/dymCZB #givework
- Samasource: We are getting excited for Samasource's 2nd Annual Give Work Gala! Happens 11.11.10 - email gala@samasource.org for more info!
- Samasource: Tech For (And By) Africa http://t.co/SwwQUwI via @techcrunch
- Samasource: @samasource Stipend Haiti Field Associate position, begin in Sept. careers@samasource.org w/resume 4 info! http://bit.ly/c8yiiK @RAMhaiti
- Samasource: Leila Chirayath Janah on Samasource bridging the digital divide and creating a global meritocracy... http://fb.me/EYeshXJo
- Samasource: A comprehensive article on Leila Chirayath Janah @leila_c and Samasource: http://bit.ly/9U5rRl #givework http://fb.me/zgyP2ebi
- Samasource: @IncMagazine features @samasource in slideshow "6 Cool Crowdsourcing Business Tools" check it out here: http://bit.ly/cXcH83
Category Archives: Other
Training the Trainers in Haiti
Samasource is excited to have Denise ‘Roz’ Sewell, Director of Crisis Mapping for the Ushahidi Haiti Project, sharing a blog post with us from her recent travels to the 1,000 Jobs / Haiti site in Mirebalais. There she introduced the Samasource work team to several new software innovations that make pinpointing the locations of emergencies much [...]
Join Samasource's own Eric Nguyen at Social Change 2.0 May 3rd
Social Change 2.0 – Using the Web for Good
Curious to find out more about how the web is shaping the future of the “social change” movement? Come find out on May 3! Hear from an exceptional group of speakers who are using the power of information technology to achieve social impact offline.
Date: Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Time: 7:00 – [...]
“Netexplorateurs of the Year” Award
Samasource and Crowdflower received the “Netexplorateurs of the Year” Award for their GiveWork iPhone application at the French Senate in Paris today. This award is conferred on the most promising digital initiatives each year; in previous years, Twitter and the Dutch augmented reality application Layar were recognized.
Samasource and CrowdFlower were covered on the French news [...]
Doing Business for Good: Moving Beyond the for-profit and non-profit models
I first heard about social businesses and social entrepreneurship in a seminar at the Stanford GSB three years ago. At the time, it seemed like an interesting concept but was not something I gave much further thought.
Then last summer I spend five weeks in South Africa and had the privilege of speaking with many of [...]
Rethinking Outsourcing
I thought I’d share an Op-Ed I wrote that was published in The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, on Tuesday this week — it’s called Rethinking Outsourcing.
A positive social label could do much to change consumer perceptions of outsourcing to poor regions
IT’S a tough time for the outsourcing industry – 69% of Americans think outsourcing hurts [...]
My Experience with Samasource
I am a very optimistic person, optimistic to the point where most think I’m a little crazy. I have tried the “In a mad world, it’s only the mad that are considered sane” approach to assuage my need to fit in with the mostly glass-half-empty lot that most of my acquaintances are, but, it doesn’t [...]
Samasource featured in the Stanford Daily
A reporter from the Daily discussed Samasource in her piece on the Social E Challenge Business Plan competition, published on the front page of today’s paper.
Check out the coverage here: http://www.stanforddaily.com/cgi-bin/?p=2268.
Red-hot: Samasource growth thaws a frigid San Francisco Summer