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Thread Needs Your Vote!

June 24, 2014 Lindsay

Please take a moment to help this awesome Pittsburgh startup (yes, Thread is a business not a non-profit) win $25,000 dollars. Thread, a social venture start-up headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, takes waste from the poorest places in the world and transforms it into dignified jobs and responsible fabric. This week, Thread is in the running to win $25K in theLedbury Launch competition with a public vote. Each vote brings us one step closer to the sweet taste of victory (and much needed capital to help Thread grow our impact in Haiti). Here’s what you can do to help: 1)Vote for… Read the rest

Filed Under: Pittsburgh Businesses Tagged With: haiti, ledbury, ledbury launch, Moop, pittsburgh, thread, thread international

#Pittsburgh – Hashtags for Pittsburgh

January 25, 2010 Lindsay

Image by Search Engine People Blog via Flickr Chris Brogan (he writes a great blog on social media that I follow daily) had a post last week on how to help in Haiti – in the post he links to a great post – Designing Hashtags for Emergency Response, by Chris Messina from the blog Factory City.  Messina’s post offers some great thoughts on creating hashtags for twitter and he links to the Epic Project EPIC from the University of Colorado at Boulder – which is working on Tweak the Tweet – a standard group of hashtags for tweeting information… Read the rest

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: haiti, hashtag, twitter

Radio Round Up – January 15, 2010 – HAITI UPDATE

January 15, 2010 Lindsay

HAITI UPDATE – The blog That’s Church (aka PittGirl) has a full run down of the story – 2 Pittsburgh sisters who run the BRESMA Orphanage in Haiti are okay and the Pittsburgh bloggers, local politicians and others are working to get a plane to bring Jamie and Ali and ALL of the children back to the United States.  Thanks to the blogs and twitter – the story has recieved wide media coverage.  As on 7:45 this am – the children are now allowed to enter the US.  They are working on a getting a plane and a plan to… Read the rest

Filed Under: Radio Round Up Tagged With: brema, haiti, Radio Round Up, thats church, thatschurch

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