It’s our favorite time of the week –  time to reveal our top five Twitter discoveries! Grab your mouse, click away, and enjoy this edition of inspirational links. Some are interactive, others will make you laugh – the rest, well, they will just make you feel warm and fuzzy all over. Don’t forget that you, too, can appear in our Top 5 Twitter Discoveries of the Week by simply following us and tweeting your favorite finds. And now you can also connect with us on Facebook. Do it – we’ll return the …

If you saw our post on TrustArt a few weeks ago, then you have probably figured out that we are big fans of socially conscious projects here at Aliveasart. Starting an impactful, art-based social movement like TrustArt takes a little creativity and a lot of risk and patience. Luckily we have found a few more examples of companies who are up to that noble challenge. Read on, and see how you, too, can get involved!
 
Social Designer
Change doesn’t happen by chance – it happens by design. At least that’s what they …

Are you bummed about the economy? Does the stock market have you down? Don’t you wish you had something ‘priceless’ to invest in? If so, check out Trust Art. It just might be what you are looking for. 
A new venture that was launched in partnership with BBH New York and SquareSpace, Trust Art supports 10 emerging artists with visionary blueprints for projects on a one year timeline. Each artist’s proposal is steeped in cultural, environmental, and economic value, and has the potential to engage large contingents of society. 
Trust Art sells $1 …

As many of you know, I am spending the summer in a more temperate climate than New York City: Houston, Texas. We don’t have visually kidnapped billboards down here, and we certainly don’t have post-it note art on every corner. However, we are more creative a community than one might think. And before you roll your eyes, take a moment to check out the Caroline Collective. This place turned me into a believer, and I’m a Houston native!
The Caroline Collective is a cafe-like community and collaboration space for developers, designers, writers, and just about anyone …

Last week I blogged about Facebook’s latest facelift, pointing out the company’s steps to retain users who have given in to the Twitter craze. 
Twitter is a back-end micro-blogging platform through which users post text-based updates up to 140 bytes in length. The service syncs with other web-based applications, like Facebook, and allows subscribers to post tweets without ever having to visit the site itself. The extensibility of Twitter has made it a widely popular service, one that has given way to endless professional and personal possibilities.
I still oppose Facebook’s recent Twitter-resembling changes …