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Doing Good with facebook – Kiva.org

clockThursday, May 29th, 2008 Press Releases, charity | Leave a Comment

Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

The facebook Kiva application lets a user grow their funds by using the facebook platform as a means of soliciting friends for monetary contributions.

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New Must Read: The Elephant Hunters

clockWednesday, May 28th, 2008 Press Releases | Leave a Comment

I read a lot. Copious amounts really. So when a really good friend of mine and Invoke’s wrote a book I couldn’t wait till it came out. I’ve still got to wait a bit to get the copy in my hands, but they have just started presales of the book – Amielle has assured me that she will sign my copy.

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Invoke Wins PopVox Award for memelabs.com

clockMonday, May 26th, 2008 Press Releases | Leave a Comment

Posted by Jenn Lowther
Last week was an absolutely crazy busy week in Vancouver for Social Media and technology. The week started off with TechVibe’s Startup Career Fair and ended with the PopVox People’s Choice Awards – with VIGS/Vidfest Opening Ceremony, Launch Party 4, Cossette Convergence 2008, and VidFest in between. I will have [...]

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2nd Annual Invoke Bike to Work Week

clockFriday, May 16th, 2008 Press Releases | Leave a Comment

With the sun out, beach volleyball in full swing, and a bit of a sunburn on my shoulder…the only thing that it can mean is that summer is coming!! That means getting outside and having fun. With the advent of this beautiful weather, we also get our 2nd Annual Bike to Work Week. So dust of your bikes, get in shape, and help save the environment.

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Why The Webby is Destined for Failure (if they don’t change their bloated ways)

clockTuesday, May 13th, 2008 Press Releases | Leave a Comment

I have to state my displeasure with the Webby Awards and I will start by looking through the latest list of nominees.

Seeing companies like ‘The New York Times’ or the ‘The Guardian’ makes me think that the judges are completely mainstream oriented and as a result there are many good and deserving companies and websites that didn’t get nominated…

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