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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

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While most of our jobs don''t involve leading a tour of Marines through an ambush, or rushing into a relief zone just decimated by a hurricane, in today''s fast-paced, hyper-competitive business environment, we are ALL on the front lines, says Wood. And, how to be prepared -- physically, mentally and emotionally.

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President's Update

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I was awarded one of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowships. These awards are based not so much on past achievements, as an expectation that you will do something exciting in the future. For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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They came from Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, from all over, some of the most unheard places of the world. A woman journalist from Sudan had her story about the flogging of a woman who was wearing pants get picked up, and it made international headlines. We had the BBC pick up some of those stories, the UN Wire, and The Huffington Post.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. It was definitely a full time job during the last 2 weeks of the contest. Lastly, you can shamelessly plug LWB.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. It was definitely a full time job during the last 2 weeks of the contest. Lastly, you can shamelessly plug LWB.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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The organization has received numerous awards for its work, and Fisher recently received the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. Now, of course, in this country if you want to make money, the easiest thing to do is go and get a job. The young man had to go to Nairobi to look for a job. OK, it's a challenge.

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MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Some groups like The Sudan Genocide Intervention Project and Dennis Kucinich chose to hide the number of friends they had. 60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors?