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Social Enterprise Summit Blogging Contest Winners Announced

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Great to see two social enterprise bloggers, Kylie Eastley of Tasmania and Tristan Pollock from Minnesota, won Halle Tecco's contest on Huffington Post to go to the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit later this month in San Francisco. Next year it will be in South Africa. This Summit will be my swan song in a leadership role at the Alliance.

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Bookshare and the Power of We

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Blog Action Day is today, October 15, and the international community of bloggers is blogging about this year’s theme, The Power of We. Valuing partnership over going alone is one of the Seven Benetech Truths that I shared in a recent blog post. Here’s to the Power of We, and Happy Blog Action Day to all!

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

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This blog first appeared in the Huffington Post. The event kicked off with talks by two activists who may go to prison as a result of their online activities; Alaa Abd El-Fatah, an Egyptian blogger and software developer and Thai journalist Chiranuch Premchaiporn.