Say it to my face!: Anonymity, Sexism and Social Networks

I recently signed up to try the current social network craze, formpsring.me. Formspring takes Facebook’s Honesty Box a step further, allowing people to submit questions to ask you either anonymously or not. I’ve never been into the Honesty Box because I wasn’t that pressed to find out what people think about me; I come from [...]

#PRFail: Chase’s Transparency Mishaps

an Open letter to Chase about their Community Giving Initiative from by Nathaniel Whittemore of Change.org: Dear JP Morgan & Chase, You’ve recently made waves in the social change community with your Chase Community Giving initiative, a $5 million Facebook giveaway contest. Unfortunately, you’ve also demonstrated some pretty bonehead anti-transparency tendencies which have hurt your [...]

Surprise! For many orgs, Social Media=more success

A recent study shows that organizations that use social media are more financially successful than those that don’t. There’s been some talk about what this means for corporate companies and non-profit organizations as well. Organizations that were measured to have the greatest depth and breadth of social media engagement grew company revenues by an average [...]

Precious Part 2 – When “feel good” branding goes wrong

My second post devoted to the movie Precious was going to be about how Tyler Perry should consider leaving the director’s chair alone for a while and funding more smaller projects by black directors other than himself. It could really show Hollywood the real scope of his power. Then I started seeing the new cut [...]

Baby, let’s get tested

…before we get busy. Prior to dating my current partner, I was in an almost 2 year relationship with someone else. One afternoon when we first started dating, my then-boyfriend asked me if I had recently gotten tested. At first I got scared. Oh no, I thought. Is he going to tell me he has [...]

It’s World AIDS Day

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of days, you’d know that today is World AIDS Day. I decided to try something this time and do a short series of posts talking about my experiences with protecting myself, getting tested, and losing people I care about to the disease. The next [...]