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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities.

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Green IT Accreditation Goes International

Tech Soup

The big green IT news this week is that the program has now expanded to 40 countries (PDF) worldwide including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Taiwan, and the 27 countries of the European Union. The criteria range from energy use to elimination of hazardous materials.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. Asia is also a good news-bad news story. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. World Snapshot. Things are actually going pretty well in Europe.

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Little Penguins, Big Drama: Lessons on How to Go Viral from the National Aquarium of New Zealand

Connection Cafe

Felicity: The penguin keepers at the National Aquarium of New Zealand heard of this idea being used internally at another facility. Popular social media channels such as Reddit, BoredPanda and BuzzFeed shared our posts and it was even covered on news channels across the US. Draco won, closely followed by Mo, again!

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EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

GCAP , an international campaign fighting to raise awareness about poverty was struggling with this issue. Campaign Stats: 6 employees and 2 interns, all working on other projects were responsible for the successful campaign launch with over 100,000 online participants who created 1,000 avatars online.

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EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

GCAP , an international campaign fighting to raise awareness about poverty was struggling with this issue. Campaign Stats: 6 employees and 2 interns, all working on other projects were responsible for the successful campaign launch with over 100,000 online participants who created 1,000 avatars online.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I actually started out with International Studies, and more academic. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. A woman journalist from Sudan had her story about the flogging of a woman who was wearing pants get picked up, and it made international headlines.

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