Submitted by Clay Ward on December 14, 2008 - 11:56pm.
A report came out recently from Forrester Research which summarizes the media sources that adults in the US trust most. Do you think that people who change their brand loyalties based on socially responsible information trust different sources than the average American?
Buy It Like You Mean It is all about providing people like yourself [...]
Submitted by Clay Ward on December 11, 2008 - 11:26pm.
Madeline Ashby has published the first installment of Boyfriend, a story about a girl from the future preparing for prom. How does she prepare? By pillow talking with an artificial intelligence program that helps her find out the supply chain history of the dresses she’s choosing. Seems more like she’s interviewing for [...]
Submitted by Clay Ward on December 10, 2008 - 4:06pm.
I just marked a set of emails as spam. This is the first group of emails that I’ve received that targeted me as interested in “green” purchasing. I was fooled at first. I started thinking to myself “Hmm. My Green Choices sounds pretty cool. Is this an organization [...]
Submitted by Clay Ward on December 7, 2008 - 1:50pm.
The Computing Culture group at MIT’s Media Lab is publishing an information sharing service that extends the Buy It Like You Mean It open source code. The Landman Report Card will allow land owners to negotiate with oil and gas companies on an even playing field when they are approached by company [...]
Submitted by Clay Ward on November 24, 2008 - 3:35pm.
This is a scrambled (family friendly) version of what appeared on the front page of the Browse results section of Buy It Like You Mean It yesterday. The hacker responsible only changed one company’s description: alerting us to a security hole without causing real damage.
The problem is now fixed. We treat our [...]
Submitted by Clay Ward on November 24, 2008 - 3:19pm.
Lucy Mendel has committed the landmark 1,000th change to Buy It Like You Mean It’s repository of open source technology! Click the sound file to hear her speech on the subject (gotcha, Lucy.)To the right is the commit message that was emailed to members of our dev-flock by the bilumi version control system. [...]
Submitted by Clay Ward on November 8, 2008 - 12:09am.
Check out the new demo we built for AccountAbility, a project led by Nate Greenslit at the MIT Media Lab. AccountAbility aims to put socially responsible information on online bank statements.
The screen shot on the right shows a google map inserted into a bank statement. The first goal is to provide feedback to consumers. In [...]
Submitted by Clay Ward on October 30, 2008 - 9:32pm.
What Is a BILUMI Workshop?
A bilumi workshop is when a bunch of folks get together in the same room and add their opinions and research to the knowledge of our whole community. The workshop goal is decided by the host. There’s no shortage of options!
Why Host a Workshop?
Workshops are a terrific [...]
Submitted by Clay Ward on October 23, 2008 - 7:09pm.
Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel of Harvard Business School are taking a closer look at how environmental practices change when companies are publicly rated for their performance.
Here’s what I took from their paper: (You can download their working draft here: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf)
Businesses that understand that their profit motive is threatened [...]
Submitted by Clay Ward on September 11, 2008 - 10:18pm.
Wondering what happened with the results of the poll where you helped us think about what kinds of revenue we should pursue? The short answer is: Courtney is on it.
Courtney Tyler is interning with bilumi this semester and will be preparing the first stage of a comprehensive financial plan. She is starting with [...]
