41 Stories To Learn About Social Impact

3 Oct 2023

Let's learn about Social Impact via these 41 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. Technology Is Killing Creativity

Technology is killing creativity in the sense that it is making it more challenging to be creative.

2. Why Is Bitcoin the Best Secret Society Ever? The Rise of Illuminati 2.0

Why is Bitcoin the best Secret Society ever? The rise of Illuminati 2.0 and a Greater Idea behind it.

3. 5 Trends That Could Mark Social Media’s Evolution in the Next 5 Years

Social media trends to watch

4. Social-as-a-Service Concept

“There are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” — Jim Barksdale, former CEO and President of Netscape.

5. The Great Polarisation

When you look at the trends of the last few decades, it’s difficult to miss the signs, overt and covert, of there being an increasing polarization in the business world. Even in the last decade, firms have been seeing extremely high profit rates primarily driven by the lack of competition. But this hides the underlying fragmentation of a previously solid market, which is likely to be the beginning of the next phase of exploration vs exploitation. To take a few examples:

6. Mental Health Basics: Diagnosis, Treatment, Tech Tools

Last year I found I had ADD.

7. Learn How to Crack the Code of Emotional Intelligence

The definition of Emotional Intelligence states that it is: ”the ability to perceive, understand and influence our own and others’ emotions, across a range of contexts, to guide our current thinking and actions, to help us to achieve our goals”.

8. Science is About Truth; Engineering is About Compromise

The Fuller: A Unit of Humanitarian Invention Impact

9. Understanding "Impact Marketing" and Its Importance

It's time for all the tech companies adding disability customers in their roadmap.

10. The Social Dilemma on Netflix is the Wake Up Call We've Been Waiting For

I watched “The Social Dilemma”, the documentary by the Center for Humane Technology and featuring Tristan Harris, yesterday. It taught me zero new things. I learned nothing that I had not already come across during my research for my latest book Life Beyond the Touch Screen. Or that I had not even incorporated in the book.

11. Walking the Talk: How Gen Z and Social Media Are Affecting Real Social Change

Generation Z, or Gen Z, coming on the heels of the Millennials, are more racially and ethnically diverse than any generation before. They are truly the first digital natives, with the smart phone around them since birth. As the saying goes, “Today, 2-year-olds can unlock an iPhone, open and close their favorite apps all by themselves. When I was that age, I was eating dirt.” In fact, this generation cannot imagine life without the iPhone and the Internet.

12. Tezos Commons Boston Chapter Pitch Competition Authentically Innovates at Babson College

13. Social Impact Using Your Heart and Mind in Tech

My generation has seen a world much less forgiving. We grew up understanding the fundamentals of climate change, and saw rising sea levels and record setting temperatures all over the world.

14. Tinder for Hackathon Teams

For those of you who are Tinder users or just watchful to the tech news, you should know that the App is offering the option to match with anyone in the entire world, helping people to have virtual dates during this time of pandemic crisis.

15. Digital Education: Opportunities and Challenges Coronavirus Exposed

The number of students not attending schools or universities due to the outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 is growing rapidly. This is why governments around the world have decided to convert education to electronic form. While the Covid-19 pandemic significantly pushed the digitalization of the learning process, it also exposed major stumbling blocks in this way.

16. How can AI turn Social Media into a Smart Fundraising tool for Nonprofits?

Hopeful was nominated as one of the best startups in Toronto in Startups of the Year hosted by HackerNoon.

17. What is the Engage-to-Earn Social Media Model?

Taki is an “engage-to-earn” social network that combines user currency with social media elements to reward and encourage activities.

18. Social Entrepreneurship Can Help You Level Up Your Success - Here's How

19. Social Entrepreneurship Qualities You Should Harness

Social entrepreneurship is an excellent way to profit and change the world at the same time, offering a business model that will be pivotal for many years ahead

20. App Gạo is a New & Digitized Charity Experience

In the times of COVID-19, how do we help others and ensure that we give them the help that they need? Here's how some Vietnamese students managed to do it.

21. TikTok Ban: The Biggest Trends to Arrive from 2020's Controversial Social Network

TikTok’s rise in popularity has taken the world by storm. Launched in 2017, the social network only reached world markets in the summer of 2018. Two years on and the video-based platform has amassed over two billion downloads globally.

22. Telco Professional & Charity Food Delivery Rider: A Chat About Trying To Raise 100 K In 60 Days

I remote chat with Anthony Houlahan, a telco professional who has been working in Singapore for the last 18 years. He initially started on his mission on the 22nd of April to use his time after hours and on weekends to do food delivery, both to stave off isolation, and to raise funds for a good cause. He ends his donation campaign and delivery activity on 21st June.

23. The Tech Industry is a Balancing Act Between Two Value Systems: Cash and Humanity

Tech is a balancing act between two value systems (cash and humanity) and it can never not be. Here's why:

[24. Cryptocurrency and Philanthropy: The present! ✨👏❤️✨

5 Reasons Why Nonprofits Love Cryptocurrency](https://hackernoon.com/cryptocurrency-and-philanthropy-the-present-5-reasons-why-nonprofits-love-cryptocurrency-do78j3110) I first of all would like to thank you for giving me trust. We have an opportunity to impact the world together. Im are glad to share an amazing article with some additions (my own). By Alex Wilson and Pat Duffy, co-founders of The Giving Block

25. We're Expanding Our Refurbished Computers Program to Meet New Demands

As COVID-19 moves across the country, nearly all businesses and educational institutions have shifted to remote work and distance learning. As a result, the demand for resources to support that shift have taken a sharp upturn — particularly, the demand for laptop computers. In response, TechSoup is working with our partners to expand our inventory of laptops by adding more Condition B products to our catalog.

26. The Benefits of Taking a CPR Course Online

Obtaining your cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification online is now a very real and viable option for all people. Regardless of the reason why you’re obtaining your certification, you can either take it online, in-person, or a combination of the two, often called a “blended” course option.

27. Boris Johnson Surrenders to Marcus Rashford's Amazing Twitter Sprints

Manchester striker breaks down conservative government resistance to feeding the hungry with Twitter onslaught.

28. A History Of The Fat Liberation Movement Via The Lens of Social Media

Fat Liberation is a social justice movement focused on making social policy and practice more inclusive and equitable for fat people.

29. Mozilla Spring MVP Lab

TLDR: Apply to be a part of the Mozilla Spring MVP Lab at mozilla.org/builders

30. How to Launch a Social Project in 6 Steps

Being a socially responsible business is no longer a trend, it is a must.

31. How to Fight Global Climate Change with Web3

Maxity.io, the world’s largest charity NFT marketplace, is launching its mobile Dapp called Maxity App and a pioneering ‘Plant and Reward’ model, MAX Forest...

32. AI for Social Good: Addressing the Top 5 Challenges

To realize the potential of Ai, we must address the top 5 challenges facing it: data bias, lack of access, security, scalability and impact evaluation.

33. Food Tech Stories: Food On Wheels Can Solve Last Mile Problem

Urbanization is a common process in many regions of the world, including a huge proportion of people in less developed countries. Rapid urbanization can cause many problems, including poverty and food insecurity, which can make it harder for citizens to eat a healthy diet. No matter how hard policymakers are trying to promote healthy and sustainable diets, it’s still an acute problem in modern cities.

34. How Diets and Dying Related to Demographics

When we seek to understand consequences of our actions and the hidden complexity that underlies them we can make better decisions. One set of decisions that everyone participates in throughout life is choice of diet. The impact of what we consume on a daily basis is often only felt many years later — and can be an accident of birth.

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