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. Campus Party Brazil in February, 2012 is already sold out - 7,000 Campuseros. Will these types of events make a difference? It's not a. campus, it's. sponsorships like crazy.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

I worked remotely full-time during much of 2014 when my husband and I relocated to Brazil for nine months. I had to accommodate the six-hour time difference between Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco by adjusting my workday so that I could be on call during San Francisco work hours. Telework Tools Jessica Relies On.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The company first tested the update in Brazil, Canada, Ireland, and Italy. For business accounts and famous influencers, it’s a different world. To people scrolling through their feed, there is no number of likes portrayed on posts. The company is still testing the feature in various other countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

But it is more than the technology, it is also their passion to do good in the world. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November. Kids Can Make A Difference. Here’s some resources from VolunteerMatch if you want to volunteer your time to help out hunger organizations. Youth in Philanthropy. Youth Noise.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed. Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide. His forthcoming. newscasts for CurrentTV. conferences and public events around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

For example, there are many differences between US and UK English. Keywords are a vital tool for this and will be different in each of your target locations. Orkut , for example, is still popular in Brazil, while Renren and Qzone dominate the Chinese market (where Twitter and Facebook are banned). What language are you speaking?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America. The crucial difference is that, as a nonprofit, we’re on a quest to ensure that our Bookshare library serves anyone who needs it, regardless of where they live.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

His forthcoming book, Você Vai me Servir ("You Will Serve Me," Annablume Publishers, São Paulo, 2012) is a comparative ethnographic study of relationships between domestic workers and their employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

There's a vast qualitative difference between one of Pollock's splatter paintings and the work of a monkey. DDB Brazil sparked controversy in September with a misguided September 11-themed ad campaign for the World Wildlife Fund. It takes some commitment to appreciate its beauty. For the record, I'm a fan of abstract expressionism.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. The next 10X opportunity is to go global, by ramping up Bookshare International to serve the millions of people with print disabilities worldwide.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2011

How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief Find out how Second Harvest Japan used cloud-based technologies to serve Japanese communities when disaster struck. Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study Learn how a cloud-based solution helped one Canadian nonprofit work more efficiently. Week 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2011

How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief Find out how Second Harvest Japan used cloud-based technologies to serve Japanese communities when disaster struck. Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study Learn how a cloud-based solution helped one Canadian nonprofit work more efficiently. Week 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Let donors see how you are making a huge difference: we saved 5 historic structures, we helped 5000 people, we staged 12 performances, we launched 25 rescue boats. If you don’t do this, then your donor will never really know his money made any difference. Hungry children in Brazil? OK this just seems so very basic.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. taking on big challenges and this is no different for our Citizenship. Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. In Latin America, more young people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

I just returned from Brazil yesterday: an exciting and meaningful trip that I'll talk about more later, I hope. For example, he asked us why the DAISY format needed to be different than the regular XML used for other electronic books. Sound generally, but not the whole issue.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief Find out how Second Harvest Japan used cloud-based technologies to serve Japanese communities when disaster struck. Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study Learn how a cloud-based solution helped one Canadian nonprofit work more efficiently. Week 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

Rodrigo Baggio (of CDI in Brazil) and I are trying to find more time together since we're both in the IT space: we know there's a joint project here somewhere. The different social entrepreneurs have started showing up: we have a day of meetings before the main Skoll Forum starts. I just found out it's going to be live on Social Edge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

Although we are doing a myriad of different things, these are the people I feel are my community. At the moment, I'm en route to Brazil for the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit. We have common challenges and a common interest in changing society. That's pretty interesting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I would characterize the atmosphere as one of informed and intelligent skepticism on the part of the Copyright Office, with many questions exploring different positions. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team).

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

I — Inspire individuals and organizations to overcome their challenges and make a difference in the community. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). L — Listen and understand the challenges faced by individuals and organizations working to strengthen our community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

What difference does a cup of Fair Trade coffee make? What difference does it make? But if we can find effortless ways for people to make a difference, what we found is that actually people want to help. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Until the pandemic hit, Sprints were in-person events that we held multiple times a year in a different American or European city, from Philadelphia to Amsterdam to Long Beach. We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Just like you have different keys for different doors, you want to make sure that all of your accounts have different passwords. Set up a special PIN on your phone number via your cell provider (this is different and additional to your online login password for managing that account).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. You know the difference between a labyrinth and a maze? You have to think of something new and different and use an "up" voice to talk about it. It's more a feminist idea, rather than a spiritual idea.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. And I’ve noticed how different people communicate, how different people interact. So people are using WhatsApp all the time for different purposes. for a while.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Brazil is particularly active with its Brazilian Association of Electric and Electronic Recycling Companies and its emerging comprehensive e-scrap policy with a target of 17 percent by 2018. Latin America.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2009

Yesterday, Microsoft launched Microsoft Security Essentials Beta , a free set of security tools for validated users of Microsoft XP SP2 or SP3, Vista, or Windows 7 in the US, Israel, China, and Brazil. In what looks to be the successor to OneCare , it is said to be faster and less resource intensive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

I have had great chats with different social entrepreneurs. Sounded like she needs something I've seen in Brazil, and so I hope to make the connection. Isaac from Nigeria makes mobile toilets and gives them to poor widows to use to generate income: "shit business is serious business."

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Felicity: The key goal was to enhance the visitor experience for our members (Friends of the Aquarium), so they could learn more about the different characters of the Little Penguins in our care. Helen: When you launched the program, what was the goal? Timmy was a clear winner, with other resident ‘bad boy’ Mo in second.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

We have used the concept twice in a different way. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. Its good that GCAP is promoting a new platform to connect different types of folks. How did you promote it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

There are a lot of things that are different from the start up phase. That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

We have used the concept twice in a different way. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. Its good that GCAP is promoting a new platform to connect different types of folks. How did you promote it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The Tibetan Nun's Project supports nuns in six different nunneries, two of which we have built from the ground up.

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

I remember visiting a university in Brazil where a police reform course was being taught with a classroom of students and police officers. He did so by summoning the courage to tell his captain that students’ experience with police in Brazil had been one of repression and that they would run from anyone in uniform.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

A lot of people feel like, "Well, whatever I do is so inconsequential it won't make a difference." So whatever you can do to realize your own power, I say, is an important step because I don't think there's any one way of life, that your life has to look a certain way to really be part of making a difference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

Ilyse Hogue: Well I came to this work and I came to this job, very differently, maybe I could start from the beginning. And so I started to focus on corporate actors, and through a series of events and working at different organizaitions I was approached by RAN. Britt Bravo: How did you come to this work?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues. The chief negotiators of the Treaty for India (GR Raghavender), Brazil (Kenneth Nobrega), and of course Nigeria (Ruth) all participated.

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