{"id":301,"date":"2010-08-01T15:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/?p=301"},"modified":"2011-03-28T20:42:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T00:42:41","slug":"mchopa_google-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/2010\/08\/01\/mchopa_google-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Mchopa to 4 million on Google.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 20 we gained exciting exposure for Tanzanian artist Gregory Mchopa when my friend, Joshua To of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brutelabs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BRUTE Labs<\/a>, told our story of founding Mchopa.com on the official Google dot org blog.\u00a0 Thanks to Google&#8217;s reach and use of new media, the post was instantly shared with over 4 million people, something we believe will translate into increased sales for Mchopa.<\/p>\n<p>Check out &#8220;Open Source Altruism&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.google.org\/2010\/07\/open-source-altruism.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google.org&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the challenges, check out my posts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssireview.org\/opinion\/entry\/open_source_altruism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/yalejournal.org\/article\/bringing-africa-online-leveraging-technology-enable-entrepreneurs\" target=\"_blank\">Yale<\/a>, written just after some guy named Tony Blair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 20 we gained exciting exposure for Tanzanian artist Gregory Mchopa when my friend, Joshua To of BRUTE Labs, told our story of founding Mchopa.com on the official Google dot org blog.\u00a0 Thanks to Google&#8217;s reach and use of new media, the post was instantly shared with over 4 million people, something we believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[429,18395,18394,13522],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-africa","tag-brute","tag-google-org","tag-mchopa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scotthartley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}