Every so often Google delights us by changing their homepage logo in a variety of creative ways. Since 1998, these “doodles” have commemorated holidays, notable birthdays, and other events. For example: New Years, Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday, and even the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street.
Since then, Google has started a new tradition by getting kids involved in designing these creative logo changes: Doodle4Google. READ MORE >>
We recently uploaded a new set of photos of the September 11th Memorial in St. Louis to our Facebook page. You can view a sample of the photos in this post and can view the album in its entirety by heading to our Facebook page.
TED.com is a place for anyone with lots of curiosity, a desire to learn, and not a lot of free time. The website first emerged to organize a series of conferences on the latest ideas in technology, but evolved to include videos of the talks that were given at the events. Today, there are over 900 talks streaming online with new additions every week as well as multiple new tools features of the website that help spur the spreading of great ideas. But don’t worry, even if you are not a technophile you’ll find a ton of topics that will likely pique your curiosity.
As I’m sure most of you know, on the evening of May 22 a tornado moved through Joplin, MO creating widespread devastation and killing 153 people (as of the writing of this post), making it one of the deadliest tornados in U.S. history. Nearly three weeks after the tornado, we went to Joplin to work with Rebuild Joplin in an effort to document not only the devastation, but also the tremendous outpouring of compassion as Joplin begins to rebuild and move forward. READ MORE >>
Since there are tons and tons of nonprofits finding a volunteer opportunity is pretty easy to do. The issue is finding an opportunity that fits your needs and interests. Some people want to work with animals every Monday while others want to paint a building one Saturday every year. To help you find that perfect volunteer opportunity that’s in your area here are three websites you can use to search and contact nonprofits for volunteer opportunities. READ MORE >>