Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). OK, these are hard problems to solve.

Global 52

Global Data Seattle Finland 52

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Basically, Hacker Helper ensures that developers come to the hackathons prepared to code instead of wasting the first day doing research. Cell Slider , which is a crowdsourced online tool for cancer research that challenges the ponderous cancer research establishment. This project aims to speed up cancer research.

News 52

News Technology Cancer Map 52

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

We recently saw this in the Google/China case where Chinese crackers (bad hackers) broke into activist Gmail accounts. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. Well, it's back. Am I hiring the right people?

Professional 40

Professional China Script Search 40

Media Cause

APRIL 13, 2023

Most recently, their CEO went before Congress to answer questions about data collection and the platform’s ties to China. When assessing existing or potential audiences early on in our brand research, we often ask, “What social media platforms do you regularly use?” TikTok has been in the news a lot lately—for a variety of reasons.

Digital 94

Digital Marketing Strategy Social Media 94

Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

In 1999 I became an industry analyst doing market research on emerging technologies like e-commerce, and cyber security. In 2008, while working as a research director for IT security software for Aberdeen Group , I began researching green IT and sustainability. Researching and writing Green IT For Dummies changed my life.

Green 66

Green Authoring Interview Life 66

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

View the National Memorial for the Mountains on Google Earth. Among the videos up right now is footage of police dispersing student protestors in China, UCLA police using a taser gun on a student in a library, and video shot by journalist Brad Will during the protests in Oaxaca, right before he was killed.

Internet 40

Internet Causes Marketing Kiva 40

Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

And as Forest Ethics found when researching the anti-junk-mail campaign cited in the article Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? , Yes, NGOs can and should be raising more $ online (and here in Greenpeace China we are doing just that) but I have yet to see strong data that supports us shutting off the DM facet just yet.

Mail 47

Mail Social Media Online Advocacy 47

Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

News 47

News Technology China Nonprofit 47

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Even someone working for a company that manufactures nuts and bolts for distant military contractors is able, with some research, to figure out the nature of their work. Google’s use of microwork for a US Department of Defense initiative, Project Maven, is a case in point.

Work 68

Work Amazon Platform Los Angeles 68

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." And I started to communicate this and ask a lot of questions and really research into what was that that I was seeing. We don't use that much wood.

Podcast 40

Podcast Arts Oakland St. Louis 40