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Recap: Social Media for Social Impact

Forum One

Amy Skoczlas Cole from eBay explained how a grassroots employee effort for office-wide green initiatives grew to an online movement around the environmental impact of reused goods. eBay's Green Team began with a group of San Jose employees. eBay's Green Team began with a group of San Jose employees.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our local paper, the San Jose Mercury News, did two great pieces on Benetech, a business section feature story and an exceptional column by Mike Cassidy entitled An Executive Does Well By Helping Others. My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago).

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Adobe Systems and the Environment

Tech Soup

From time to time, we get a chance to find out firsthand what some of our TechSoup donor partners are doing in the area of green technology and corporate social responsibility. The occasion for getting to know Adobe better came with the launch of Adobe's new wind turbines at their headquarters building in San Jose.

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Please Don't Send Me to My Personal Webpage

Museum 2.0

The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. Finally, if visitors are saving their activities in competitive environments like games, being able to see your score relative to others--either in your party or overall--is incredibly engaging.