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. During my time in Brazil, I participated in meetings as much if not more frequently than when I am in the home office. In this series of blog posts, TechSoup staff will share our telework experience.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Productions. Windy Borman - Filmmaker & Strategist.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2009

based EPEAT , the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, which is a non-commercial program that rates how environmentally friendly new IT equipment is according to three tiers of environmental performance which they mark with bronze, silver, and gold. A bit over a year ago, we talked about U.S.-based read more.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Connecting Up Australia (TechSoup's partner organization in Australia) shows how Microsoft's cloud services and desktop products work together. Week 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Streetfootballworld supports a worldwide network of organizations in well over 50 countries.The photo above is of one of their programs in Brazil. Overall, the donation has increased the productivity of the organization's administrative and accounting departments. in partnership with TechSoup Global.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Connecting Up Australia (TechSoup's partner organization in Australia) shows how Microsoft's cloud services and desktop products work together. Week 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing.

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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. Alluded to their investment in audible.com as an example of a product that justifies low prices/high volumes. - Sound generally, but not the whole issue. We have a need to cover these issues in more detail with him.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Connecting Up Australia (TechSoup's partner organization in Australia) shows how Microsoft's cloud services and desktop products work together. Week 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

But, the bulk of what we need funding for is product development and marketing. At the moment, I'm en route to Brazil for the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit. When we have a financial asset to borrow against, such as receivables (either from sales or a grant), we also might find a debt solution. That's pretty interesting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

The heads of major information technology companies invited me to attend multiple meetings to discuss the progress they had made as a group in bringing technology to students in Jordan and their desire to replicate that success elsewhere in the Middle East, as well as a major program in Brazil.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products? Paul Rice: TransFair is the only organization here in the United States that certifies Fair Trade products. Britt Bravo: Why should people buy Fair Trade products like coffee and chocolate? What difference does a cup of Fair Trade coffee make? What difference does it make?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

Rather than being held in Geneva at the headquarters of the World Economic Forum, Pamela and her team moved the summit closer to some of the social entrepreneurs by holding the event in Brazil. They've built a strong PR campaign using soap opera actors, as well as a product line made by their clients.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Africa's technology lifecycle for displays is two to three times the productive use cycle in richer nations. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Their studies find that about 85 percent of surplus electronics imports are reused, not discarded. Latin America.

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

There are now over 200 local currencies in use worldwide, according to a database maintained by the Schumacher Center, with popularity greatest in Europe and Brazil. The original launch of BerkShares presaged a broader revival of interest in local currencies following the Great Recession. Now 15 years in, BerkShares, Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

I think it's been a very long time since I've bought, for instance, a Coca-Cola product, although it gets harder now that they make Dasani, and they own Odwalla, and they do all these things. I can kind of penetrate the products in a way that I didn't before, just like my ethnobotanist friend can do in Central Park.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

When I did a little digging into who this guy was, he was one of three leaders of one of the world's largest companies called Freeport-McMoRan, which is engaged in mining and chemical production all around the world.

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