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Market Failure in Global Health Technologies

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One repeating theme came to me during a recent and fascinating meeting with Professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum, the Director of Rice 360, the Institute for Global Health Technologies. Her students at Rice University have been busy inventing new tools and equipment for global health.

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1 Million Trailhead Badges: Lessons from Salesforce.org’s Trailhead Journey

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Initially, we envisioned six solution line trails: Fundraise with Nonprofit Cloud , Manage Programs with Nonprofit Cloud , Engage Constituents with Nonprofit Cloud , Achieve Advancement Goals with Education Cloud , Build a Connected Campus with Education Cloud , Enroll Best-Fit Students with Education Cloud. What’s next? About the Author.

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Global Health Essay Contest -- Please Share

Forum One

This opportunity may be of interest to Influence followers or your colleagues: The CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health is seeking essay submissions that answer the following question in 500-800 words by midnight, November 20th 2009: "What is the most important thing the U.S. can do to improve global health over the next 15 years?"

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ARHP Releases Two New Educational Tools for Reproductive Health Students & Professionals

Forum One

I've just been introduced to what look like useful new online tools for reproductive health students, faculty, and professionals, produced by The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP). Organizations can recruit students by listing program information online. Tags: Global Health. User feedback welcome!

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Crafting Clear Marketing Communication with Pardot Email Preference Centers

Cloud 4 Good

Besides allowing prospects to choose what content they receive emails about, EPCs have several other benefits: EPCs help to deflect unsubscribes by giving your prospects the choice to opt out of a specific topic rather than forcing them into the global unsubscribe, where they’ll see none of your content.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Supports Bookshare!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our dream at Bookshare has been that every student with a print disability has accessible versions of every book that would be available to their peers without disabilities. Tags: print disabled print disabilities LD Encyclopaedia Britannica global library Bookshare. We're working very hard on textbooks.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." Global Energy Observatory ? See Thomas Friedman? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s s focused on an important problem ? He has told me that he?s