In January, Starbucks ’ stores in: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, northern California, northern Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho, Texas, Maine, New Hampshire, parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode Island were rBGH-free. Guess what? Your advocacy made a difference. Oxfam announced yesterday that Starbucks signed an

They have participated in planning and emergency responses from remote Pacific islands to downtown Portland, Oregon. The image below is a screenshot from a disaster preparedness exercise in Portland, Oregon. From Jim Craner , MapTogether Geographic Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year.

ARC - we are set up similarly, Robin Parker does Oregon Trail chapter for example I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics.  Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog.  Can’t wait!

utilizing community was recently put into action in Portland, Oregon. Over the Lead Drupal Developer at OpenSourcery in Portland, Oregon, and goes by jhedstrom in the Drupal community. ...Tags: Jonathan Hedstrom, OpenSourcery Any Any community, online or otherwise, is about communication communication

Kim, a grandmother living in Oregon, posts photos of the pothole in front of her house. Submitted by Alexandra Samuel, CEO of Social Signal How can you use the web to engage your members, supporters or the public, and move them towards a specific action? That's a common question from nonprofits who are diving into social media.

NedSpace is a 7,500 square ft co-working space for startups, innovative tech companies, artists, nonprofits and social entrepreneurs located in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon. NedSpace is located at 920 SW Third (between Taylor & Salmon) Portland, Oregon.  In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college.  I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008 .

If you happen to be in Portland, Oregon next Tuesday night, Feb 24th, and have a website in need of some TLC, come to the NTEN 501Tech Club and Net Squared MeetUp to problem-solve cures for the “common” website. Does your site scream out, “I haven’t changed my image since 1995!” 8221; Or maybe, your pages are plagued by lengthy copy that just keeps going and going… Perhaps your web presence just doesn’t really reflect all the great work your organization does.

Livestream for 30 hours straight in an effort to raise money for charities like Free Geek, Oregon Food Bank, and Toys for Tots.  Yes these are Portlanders, hoping to fundraise to support local organizations in Oregon (USA), but they are hoping it helps you fundraise wherever you are, too!  30 Hour Day is a cockamamie scheme concocted by Cami Kaos of Strange Love Live and Rick Turoczy of Silicon Florist . The concept?

Is it fair to assume that the actual surge next year will include Oregon, Alabama, Arkansas, New Mexico, etc.       Google Trends and US Department of Agriculture Results are compared in these images. They are different.    I was reading up on trend analysis and the predictive power of Google to "see" trends before the official government agencies. ( Google Flu) I started to think about what other things people might search for in advance of "showing up" to file or request government service.

Bernie grew up as a visually impaired kid and Oregon and rejected the low expectations of the then-education institutions and went to college and on to become an engineer and successful entrepreneur. Bernie is very low key, and I'm glad the Foundation encouraged him to go on the record with why he does what he does. The Silicon Valley Community Foundation just published a very nice article, Leveling the Field , about one of our key Bookshare.org supporters, Bernie Newcomb. Bernie was VP Engineering and co-founder at eTrade.