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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

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Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. 250,000 Grant Winners. They specialize in providing both hard and soft job skills.

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

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NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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QR Codes, Electronic Devices,Nonprofits, and Concert Etiquette

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, they’re being used in books. For example, Jay Baer’s and Amber Nashlund’s new book, The Now Revolution , uses Microsoft’s version of QR codes called Tag technology , so readers can scan pages and get additional bonus materials on their phones. QR codes hold potential for arts organizations.

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10 Amazing Environmental Nonprofits You Need to Know About

Tech Soup

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. " RE-Volv.

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Ask Britt: How to make a second hand bookstore a positive force for good

Have Fun - Do Good

Just owning an independent bookstore is creating a positive force for good, in my book (no pun intended). Here are a few ideas for your husband's new business venture: • Be green. If the space allows, be a low-cost gathering space for your community to have meetings, readings, exhibit art, post events, etc.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

Have Fun - Do Good

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002.

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Blogging for Writers

Have Fun - Do Good

I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Books: Dirty Girls Social Club, Playing with Boys, Make Him Look Good, Haters. Barbara Ehrenreich Books: 18! You can see them all here.