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Book Giveaway: Twitterville by Shel Israel (140 Characters of Twitterville Fame)

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From the Flickr Twitterville Group Shel Israel has written a book called Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods. Tags: twitter. It's a great read! Fabulous storytelling. Better yet, I've got a couple of advanced copies to give away. Better yet, add it as a photo to the Twitterville Flickr Group.

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Creating Public Transparency: Bringing GuideStar to Israel

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In early August, NPTech launched Guidestar Israel. It took almost five years to make GuideStar Israel a reality, and it is an incredible resource for Israeli nonprofit organizations. NPTech (established by JDC-Israel and Yad Hanadiv ) is the operating organization behind GuideStar Israel. What is GuideStar Israel? .

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Three Copies of Twitterville To Giveaway To Nonprofits: Leave A Comment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She told me that she was planning to get a copy of Shel Israel's book herself, but had seen my Tweet leading to this post about the nonprofit book giveaway for Shel Israel's book called Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods. Tags: twitter. I asked Betsy, why are you doing this?

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Recap of Unite for Sight '09 Global Health Conference, and Innovative Open Health Tools

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Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 6th annual global health conference sponsored by a dynamic young group called Unite for Site at Yale University. And Dr. Susan Blumenthal , with whom I had the pleasure of traveling to Israel last year, spoke of an initiative during her tenure as the Assistant U.S. PLoS Medicine ?

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Visit to Qatar

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It was a lightning visit of only two days (Sunday and Monday), with a focus on attending the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Summit 2010 (the GRI). James Moody, also from Australia, presented a concept for a Global Social Responsibility license focused on humanitarian applications of patents and technology.

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And the Twitterville Book Winners Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's some of the schwag and a copy of Shel Israels's Twitterville that I purchased at last night's #tbash , the launch party for the book. Shel Israel donated three books. And Congrats to Shel Israel on the launch of his book! Tags: twitter. I kicked in my three preview copies.

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

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Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. One of PresenTense's core activities is the Global Summer Institute , held in Jerusalem. There are 500 volunteers working for PresenTense each year, mainly from North America and Israel, but also from other places around the globe. So how does this "incubator" work? .

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