AmberMac Archive: ngos

#TheFeed: Best of Show – LEGO, Poverty Inc., Wattpad

TF094: On this best-of episode, we chat with Wattpad CEO Allen Lau about a new spin-off app built just for his company’s avid mobile readers. We also speak to AJ+ journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin about the future of news on your phone. Plus, Michael McNally from LEGO joins us and giving us the rundown… Read More

The Feed: TF077 AmberMac’s Holiday Gift Guide

On this week’s show, Michael and I have FoodCloud CEO Iseult Ward, who joins us from Dublin, Ireland, to talk about connecting wasted food to charitable organizations. Also on the show, Hussein Fazal is in studio to discuss new chatbot service SnapTravel, the half human and half robot that can… Read More

UNICEF Gifts from Under $20

If you’re just starting your holiday shopping list, consider a few items from UNICEF’s Survival Gifts guide. These items will help children living in areas affected by poverty, conflict, or natural disaster. They are also helping to fight disease, with UNICEF recently sharing on Twitter that approximately “920,000 children died… Read More

Joining the Canadian Red Cross Social Team

When I first jumped on Twitter back in February of 2007, I was immediately excited about participating in 140-character real-time conversations. In those days, there were plenty of interesting exchanges taking place, but the platform was not known for breaking news. On January 15 2009, that all changed. That afternoon… Read More