March 18, 2009
Guest Post - How to Avoid Layoffs
When for-profits waste money, some changes in efficiency could mean not having to lay people off. With that in mind, I asked my friend Phil from Expense Reduction Analysts (a consultancy firm that helps business eliminate wasteful overhead) to write a guest post about how companies can avoid layoffs. (More)

December 02, 2008
Lessons from Open Source - SmartCause.org in Public Beta
For several years, I worked at a Linux software company. For those of you who don't know, Linux is an operating system, like Windows or Mac. But while Windows is made by people in cubicles at Microsoft and Mac is made by people in more stylish cubicles at Apple, Linux is developed by thousands of volunteers all over the world... (More)

August 21, 2008
Unexpected News — And This Time It’s Good!
Running a startup organization is kind of like preparing to be an Olympic runner, then finding out that instead of being entered in the 100 meter dash, you’ve somehow been signed up to compete on ABC’s show WIPEOUT... (More)

July 23, 2008
Third Time's A Charm...Hopefully
After a long roller coaster ride of ups and downs, SmartCause has finally contracted a programmer to finish the site. For those of you who haven't been following the SmartCause saga, this is actually our third programmer. (More)

May 19, 2008
Summer Days
There’s no A/C here at SmartCause HQ…and on hot days like these it’s hard to concentrate. I have to drink a few cokes and turn up my iTunes to keep from falling into a warm-day-hibernation. So far it seems to be working (takes swig of coke). (More)

April 25, 2008
Back Up and Running
If you came to the site in the last two weeks, you may have thought that you traveled back in time when you saw that our site had been replaced with a “Launching Soon” placeholder page. Unfortunately, the programmers we had contracted turned out to be unable to deliver what they had promised. So we had to... (More)

March 17, 2008
SmartCause + SmartData = SMART!
Update 4/25/2008: Contracting SmartData turned out to be not-so-smart... (More)

March 10, 2008
A Quick Word About A Big Milestone
After months of designing the site and figuring out how certain pages need to interact with each other (how data feeds become financial reports, how charity research gets rated and put back on the site as charity report card, etc.), I’m finally done! (More)