EverTrue taps social to give accurate fundraising databases

If you’ve not yet caught on with the massive changes that have come due to the social web then I have to first ask where you’ve been for the past 5 years.EverTrueis leveraging the social web to help alumni associations and other non-profit organizations raise donations. The problem, for the past decade, has been that fundraising contact information software is often filled with innaccurate information. In fact, according to EverTrue CEO Brent Grinna, up to 80% of databases have information that’s just plain wrong....

2 min · 294 words · Rodney Powers

Every entrepreneur’s looming problem: Which platform?

So we had a great idea, we developed the core system for 4 months, raised money and even gathered our core R&D Ninjas. Like every startup our focus kept shifting both before we launched and before starting ourLean circle.I don’t know if the more experienced founders face this problem (I’m quite sure they do) but we are now facing the biggest problem a startup in 2011 has -‐on which platform should we build our service?...

4 min · 765 words · Nicole Lopez

Every parent should be doing this

There’s an endless list of cases where a toddler can find himself in a potentially life threatening situation, none perhaps more so than in water. In fact, child drowning is thesecond leading causeof accidental injury and death to children under the age 14. Aware of the hazards, an organisation calledInfant Swimming Resource(ISR) has launchedChildDrowningPrevention.comaiming to teach ways to, you guessed it, prevent child drownings. What’s remarkable about this organisation is that the training involves teaching techniques for the toddler to be able tosave himself, rather than instructions for the parent....

2 min · 280 words · Richard Wade

Every planet in our Solar System will be visible this week — here’s how to spot them

Every planet in our Solar System will be visible this week — here’s how to spot them Fire and ice The southeastern sky, a little after sunset, offersMars— glowing brilliant red. And, the two planets discovered in the age of telescopes — Uranus and Neptune — can be found straddling the Red Planet. Using a telescope or binoculars, Uranus can found about 13 degrees above Mars, and 20 degrees north (left) of the Red Planet....

4 min · 746 words · Madeline Todd

Every upcoming Windows Phone 7 feature from the MWC in pictures

We already brought you the news of theupcoming Windows Phone 7 features, but now we havescreenshots to share, and we could not hold back from bringing them to you. While they are not as detailed as we had hoped, each will shed light on just what Microsoft is cooking, just in case you are not at the Mobile World Congress or watching the live stream. Without further hyping, let’s get into the images:...

2 min · 420 words · Eric Conway
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