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Love and Giving Aren't Green: Start-ups & Corporate Social Impact

Melissa Thompson | Posted 03.16.2013 | Small Business
Read More: Social Entrepreneurship, Wall Street, Positivity, Dropbox, Kickstarter, Start-Ups, Skillshare, Innovation, Small Business News
Melissa Thompson

Wall Street firms might have big bucks, but there is no leg up on the size of one's heart and creativity. The foundations and processes we establish early on yield exponential returns in perpetuity.

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Join the Insurgency Against the Jobs Crisis

Jeremy Heimans | Posted 11.10.2012 | Impact
Read More: Skillshare, Jobs, Jobs Crisis, Entrepreneurship, Opportunity-Working, Social Entrepreneurship, Kickstarter, Impact News
Jeremy Heimans

Solving our economic woes and jobs crisis requires us to first ask the right questions. We can make jobs for jobs' sake, or we can rebuild our economy with good jobs that reflect our values.

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Q&A: How This Techie Teacher Made $100K This Year

The Huffington Post | Britney Fitzgerald | Posted 08.24.2012 | Technology
Read More: Online-Teaching, New York Silicon Valley, Video, Technology Education, Avi Flombaum, Skillshare, How to Learn Programming, Avi Flombaum Skillshare, Skillshare-Site, Teaching Technology, Shillshare Teacher, Avi-Flombaum, Ruby on Rails, Technology News

How many teachers have the opportunity to make $100,000 a year? Meet Avi Flombaum, 28, a programmer and teacher who hasn't taken the usual route. ...

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Get Paid To Teach What You Know -- Now, Without Ever Leaving The Couch

The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 08.23.2012 | Technology
Read More: Social Startups, Skillshare, Opportunity-Academic, Video, Opportunity-Working, Online Courses, Technology News

Skillshare is based on the idea that anyone with a real-world skill -- whether it's starting a business or making Chinese dumplings -- can be a teache...

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Are We All Deschoolers Now?

Pamela J. Stubbart | Posted 06.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Formal Education, Wikipedia, Education, Education Theory, Skillshare, Khan Academy, Informal Education, Ivan Illich, Deschooling, Hackspaces, Schooling, Home News
Pamela J. Stubbart

Ivan Illich's 1971 book, Deschooling Society, is a classic in the canon of "alternative" educational theory, and the source of one of my favorite quips on education.

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The Future of Education Reform

Douglas Crets | Posted 06.05.2012 | Small Business
Read More: Education Technology, Skillshare, Udemy, Online Education, Khan Academy, Ed Tech, Education Reform, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Small Business News
Douglas Crets

A certain generation works on the web, their conversation is actually more than just talk and relationships with politicians. It's proactive, active talk.

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5 Things You May Not Know About Dating Profiles

The Huffington Post | Lori Fradkin | Posted 03.21.2012 | Women
Read More: Relationships, Love and Relationships, Dating Advice, How About We, How About We Skillshare, Online Dating Tips, Online Dating Profiles, Online Dating, Skillshare, Slidepollajax, Women News

If you've spent much time on dating sites, you may feel like you could teach a class on the topic. After browsing all those profiles, the dos and don...

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Use This To Learn--Or Teach--Anything You Want

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.14.2011 | Technology
Read More: Skillshare, Social Startup, Social Startups, Socialized, Skillshare Site, Technology News

This post is part of a new series from HuffPostTech, Socialized, that will profile a different social startup--from apps to services to websites--...

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Brooklyn Skillshare: Learning, Sharing, Doing

Scott Lachut | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Sharing, Skillshare, Community, Brooklyn, Austin, Skills, Boston, New York News
Scott Lachut

Brooklyn Skillshare's inaugural event will offer classes on topics that range from kombucha brewing and butter churning to bike repair and screen printing.

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