Help the Boris

April 5th, 2007 23 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration

[Noah's Note: Boris is one of my best friends and he gives great hugs.]
Background: I am volunteering this May to go to a small village in the jungles of El Salvador to help some former-revolutionaries that defended their villages from the death squads of the ARENA party in the late 80’s [...]

Advertising on Okdork?

March 29th, 2007 29 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration
Background: Okdork is a decent site you may read once and awhile. My goal is to drive growth of the site and not money. Mehul suggested that I allow people to sponsor/advertise on the site in some way.
Problem:I don’t really care to put ads and the point of this site has [...]

Go BIG or go Home to Momma

March 15th, 2007 10 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration

[Noah's Note: This piece was written by Scott Hurff of the Groupvine. He is a great guy, loves pickles & cheese, looks like Jude Law and took the road less traveled which I am proud of him for, tear drop:)]
Background: I’ve been going on Groupvine full-time for almost a year. [...]

What Should I do after College?

March 8th, 2007 33 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration
Background: I got an email from a friend/reader recently who is graduating college in a few months asking about careers. In the email this person was trying to find more meaning in his future job and not just do something that will give him a paycheck and some benefits.
Problem: He [...]

Let’s Randomly Help Devin Reams

March 1st, 2007 10 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration
Background: DevinReams.com is the home of Devin Reams who is a good friend that helped with Community Next & records weekly Yopos podcasts with me. He is a graduating college senior going into the miserable life of accounting;) We have known each other over a year and he is one [...]

Dang. Who was that person?

February 22nd, 2007 10 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration

Background: I started meeting a lot of people over the past few years and I had a hard time keeping track of everyone. Microsoft Office was great at recording all phone #s, birthdays, addresses, etc…But what about following up with people you haven’t chatted with in awhile, or remembering to do [...]