Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

UK, France, Spain) would have access to crucially important cultural, vocational and educational materials. If these proposed provisions took effect, it would be easier for communities of people with disabilities to build their own accessible collections inside their own countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Dinesh has programmed for Freedom Scientific and now works for the Codefactory in Spain, and Madhu works for IBM. Jags and I then joined a blind technical/professional couple for dinner: Dinesh and Madhu Kaushal. I quite enjoyed our discussions, which ranged from Bookshare to the need for open source screen readers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

International Society of Street Papers ● insp.ngo. Mission: To support 113 street paper enterprises in 34 countries in order to combat urban poverty. Naves de Esperanza ● nde.ong. Mission: To provide free surgeries to the world’s neediest nations on the world’s largest civilian hospital ship. Project 1948 Foundation ● project1948.ngo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

For example, when we went to Spain last fall , I ate more meat and cheese than I've probably eaten in my life. Hawaiian "plate lunch" I ate on our honeymoon Finally, I like to try new food, in particular, food that is the specialty of a restaurant, region, or culture.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

All finalists will be invited to the Sapphire Now conference in November in Madrid, Spain, where the four competition winners will be announced. Winners will receive $10,000 cash, technology, and networking and promotion opportunities. Enter or nominate an idea before the deadline of September 5, 2012.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The photo is from the roof of Gaudi's La Pedrera/Casa Milà in Barcelona, one of my favorite places we visited on our trip to Spain. The hubs is back from his work travels, and so are the Big Vision Worksheets. You can download a PDF of My October 2012 Big Vision worksheet for free from Dropbox here.

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Charity Village

JULY 8, 2021

The report sheds light on the reality of the jobs market for those aged 45-60 in seven countries – Brazil, India, Italy, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the […]. The post Unemployed aged 45 and above face ageism and career challenges globally appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. Nick Booth from the UK is asking for help in promoting an internet UK-based fundraiser. Participants who enter here can win a Playstation 3 from Dixons and have their ??1

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2010

Through Facebook, the ILRCSF connected with a like organization in Spain, and now the two organizations share resource sheets, expanding the reach of their program work. There are clearly a lot of benefits for local organizations in using social media.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

At the recent Spark13 conference (also known as the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres) in Granada, Spain, TechSoup Global launched OneRoof. On May 29, 2013, TechSoup Global CEO Rebecca Masisak spoke at the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres in Granada, Spain.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

She studied the German, Czech, and Spanish languages and has lived and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia, including Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Lisa graduated from Mount Holyoke College with degrees in philosophy and critical social thought. Dress snazzy if you like, to be red-carpet ready.

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Steve Bridger

JULY 26, 2008

It reminded me of those Osborne billboards you see dotted about the countryside in Spain and Mexico (and probably many places besides). Summer returned yesterday and while on a family walk in the Walborough Nature Reserve at Uphill , I spotted this cow that had strayed from the herd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

Queen of Spain retweets. Connie Reece Re-Twitters the fundraising pitch and invents new word! We're up to 499! Jane Quigley retwitters message and we hit 500! You can donate here. Thanks so much to Ben Greenberg whose retweet brought us to 501! thanks so much. Jonny Goldstein retwitters with latte ! Thanks Jonny. Shashib tweets too!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Since 1997, in Spain , Mexico , Brazil , Chile, Ecuador , Colombia - and soon in Peru - Paco and his team have been serving up their magic brew. It's not a. political party, and it's not Spring Break, and it doesn't happen on. campus, it's. Well, ask anyone under 30 who lives in a Spanish-speaking country about Campus Party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2008

Earlier this week, I attended SXSW in Austin, Texas and met many interesting people and connected with old friends, including BlogHer colleagues CE's Queen of Spain , Liz Perry , and Virginia DeBolt. I met several women who told me they were considering entering the nonprofit sector and had questions about how to get started.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

The world’s largest social enterprise is Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa in Spain. The charitable side goes back even longer, to the mid 1800s and the birth of the of the modern co-op movement in England. The World’s Largest Social Enterprise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

When you visit me in my art studio, you'll drink tea out of cups I've bought from Marrakesh, and eat tapas from dishes handmade in Spain. As a bonus, you'll take home adornments for home, fashion, beauty and style, bought directly from the people who made them. All bought from an artist so grateful to be earning money from their work.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

Word Lens is one of those apps I wish I had, oh, about five years ago when I attended a tech conference in Spain. Visit Quest Visual's page (Word Lens' developer) for more information on downloading the apps. Bottom Line. The technology is impressive as well as its accuracy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2014

The Culture Map is filled with engaging, real-life stories and anecdotes from around the world. It''s based on years of extensive research by Meyer, who is a professor at INSEAD and the program director for INSEAD''s Managing Global Virtual Teams program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

A Spain-based non-profit, their main goal is to create shelters and foster homes for poor children and elderly people. According to my colleague Rik Riel, this campaign is sponsored by the Spanish NGO Mensajeros de la Paz , which is leveraging various new media to draw attention to their work. There's YouTube video here.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2021

Some highlights are a kombucha class, a private virtual tour of Amsterdam, falafel making with an Israeli couple living in Spain, sangria class with drag queens in Lisbon, a day-long mindful retreat, James Baldwin book club, drawing classes, weekly happy hours, and a virtual Seder.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 5, 2011

Bureau of Census defines Hispanics or Latinos as those who classified themselves in one of the specific Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino categories listed on the 2000 Census questionnaire — "Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano," "Puerto Rican," or "Cuban" — as well as those who indicate that they are "other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino," which includes those (..)

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Improv Everywhere staged an event at the Metropolitan Museum in which an actor posing as King Philip IV of Spain signed autographs in front of his portrait, as painted by Diego Velazquez in the 1620s. Two recent events have got me thinking about pranks and unauthorized activities in museums.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 9, 2006

My March post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs , seems to have been helpful to folks (it even got translated into spanish by a blogger in Spain, so I thought I'd share my list, originally posted on NetSquared , of 7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2008

Next, the Queen of Spain does a retwitter. Amy Ward (her blog ), Constantin Basturea (his blog ) and Alex de Carvelho , (his blog ) all retwittered. Retwitter means copying over someone's tweet message to your network. It is a form of unleashing the networked effect.). This next thing I see is that Nancy White moves us up another $10.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2015

The Culture Map is filled with engaging, real-life stories and anecdotes from around the world. It's based on years of extensive research by Meyer, who is a professor at INSEAD and the program director for INSEAD's Managing Global Virtual Teams program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

During college, she had the opportunity to further her passion by interning at Christie’s in Beverly Hills, CA and Sotheby’s in Madrid while studying abroad in Spain. Vanessa has always been fascinated with the world of auctioning.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

Mobile World Congress , an annual tech conference in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for global technology trends in the coming year. Besides the latest and greatest smartphones and tablets, the conference is a forum for innovation, ranging from green technology to accessibility. Windows Phone 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I lived at the Galapagos islands for 2 years and last year a friend who runs an important NGO in the islands wrote me thanking me because through Idealist he managed to find 2 volunteers from Spain to work on a project about organic agriculture.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

I'll be in 16 th century Spain in Ildefonso Falcone's The Hand of Fatima. He's a big fan of the Visual Quickstart series of technical books for their ease and visual clarity. Jim Lynch, Your Humble Writer. What about me? Do you have any reading suggestions for nonprofit techies? Please log in to comment on this blog post.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I've also tried to log onto Gmail from servers in London, Spain and France without any luck." Google Gmail down across the world, massive outage (updated) - Computerworld Blogs: "users in Europe and Asia that are also out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

It was amazing because the participants spanned the globe - literally - we had representatives from UK, Spain, Denmark, Asia, Austraila, and US. Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. I met with the group last week.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In countries such as Britain, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic and Spain, about half of all adults now use Facebook and similar websites. Arab Publics Turning to Social Networks to Express Political Views | Pew Research Center : Social networking has spread around the world with remarkable speed.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Barcelona, Spain: ¡Relanzamos NetSquared Barcelona! Paris, France: AdWords – Initiation. Paudex, Switzerland: RdV4–0.ch: Solutions Informatiques — Cloud — SaaS — Services en Ligne. Thursday, October 26, 2017. ¡Te Esperamos! Paris, France: Analytics — Initiation. Tuesday, October 31, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

In fact, I met a librarian from Spain last night while wandering around. Right now the office is just a cool place to hang out, but the group members are meeting to brainstorm ideas and build informaiton kiosks. The office is located on "Information Island" and there are libraries near by.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

The other task we have to do is convert the money received both from SL into PayPal because people are giving the charity money from outside of Spain - which is new. That's the way we found to keep him always there, and not appear rude because he can't talk. How much money have you collected? How many people in second life visited you?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Perhaps you are like me and are wondering if the Paul the oracle octopus will be right on his prediction for Spain to win the World Cup. What I am often afraid to admit is when I am wrong - just ask my friends and family. He’s been right on so far. But he could be wrong.

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