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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

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Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects. Elaina learned how to use Miradi while working on a Guam watershed plan with CMP member The Nature Conservancy. The entire focus of our social message is to know your audience,” Elaina told us.

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Guam and the Consortium

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The final stop for my Micronesia trip was Guam, a U.S. Arriving on Guam felt like coming back to the United States, although it's more like Hawaii than the mainland! Guam has a huge American military presence: the armed forces control about a third of the island. The military and tourism are Guam's two big industry.

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Bookshare.org milestones

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The milestones are going to be coming ever faster, now that we have the Bookshare.org for Education project (funded by the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. We spent time talking with OSEP and our new partners from the University of Guam. Bookshare.org hits 35,000 Books! Department of Education).

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Social Enterprise: Black Pearls from Nukuoro Atoll

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By the way, Mike and Mary work for the University of Guam at the Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Education, Research and Services (CEDDERS), who manages the Pacific Consortium for Instructional Materials Accessibility Project (CIMAP), which is the whole reason I'm here in the Pacific!

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Donna Leads a Home Visit to a Blind Toddler

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Donna is the main reason I'm involved with this project: she's an itinerant teacher of the blind in rural Minnesota. She's even been to Pingelap with Mary Kidd from Guam, taking the ship Micro Glory for 24 hours, sleeping on a straw mat on one of the upper decks. I'm dedicated, but not that dedicated!