April 2011

Scheduling a shell script with launchd

Author: Jared Beck
Keywords: launchd, schedule, script, task, osx, cron

Overview:
  1. touch ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.example.mytask.plist
  2. write your scheduled task configuration in the plist file
  3. launchctl load...

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Technology for Change: BBMG

BBMG is a market research and branding company with a new study out on socially and environmentally conscious “New Consumers”.

“Unleashed: How New Consumers Will Revolutionize Brands and Scale Sustainability” is an...

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Technology for Change: STEM Video Game Challenge


The annual National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Video Game Challenge, put on by publishers of digital entertainment at E-Line Media and multiple partners, is using technology for change quite a bit differently than most of the...

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Technology for Change: PhilanTech


Problem:
Thirteen cents out of every dollar given to nonprofits – amounting to over $6 billion per year – is not spent on service delivery. This is money that instead is used towards grant administration. Grant funding is critical for...

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Mission Markets Musings

By Rob Thomas, Mission Markets Relationship Manager

This is a guest blog article from one of our fellow B Corps. It was originally posted in the Mission Markets blog on April 1, 2011.

I realized Michael Van Patten was following me after the third...

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Technology for Change: Invisible Children

Invisible Children’s operations illustrate perhaps one of the most powerful ways that social media can be used to change the world: promoting peace. The staff, volunteers and supporters of this charity specifically focus on stopping the...

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Technology for Change: Call2Action

Upon visiting the Call2Action website, one can immediately identify this organization as proactive; a real “go getter.” It’s a group that strives to “see change ignite” and vows to “Spark a movement” of...

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