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New Book Loveworks Teaches How To Make Emotional Connections

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Sheehan is also a former CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi in Japan and Australia, and at Team One in Los Angeles. While many companies were using the language of war in their marketing (target, penetrate, ambush), Roberts was using the language of love (mystery, sensuality, intimacy).

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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan? What language are you speaking? The same is true for many other languages. Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Probably not.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time. In less than an hour after the 2011 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Ushahidi platform was used to spotlight areas of refuge.

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Guam and the Consortium

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Japan is the biggest source of tourists for Guam, with growing numbers from other Asian nations like South Korea. The native people of Guam are called Chamorros, and the language is resurgent. But, we're hoping to tune up the local language synthesis, or supplement our text e-books with human narration, which might be more practical.

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QuickBooks Keeps Kantorei Singing

Tech Soup

They also learn theory, ear training, foreign language skills, and the study of music within a social context. Tours have brought the boys to Japan, New Zealand, Scandinavia, and other exciting places! It was founded in 1964 and has served hundreds of members over the years.

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BBC does deal with YouTube - Educational Group on YouTube

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" UPDATE: read what marshall has to say V ia Steve McCarty For active vloggers considering the educational possibilities, I'd like to invite you to join the YouTube Educational Group , to discuss pedagogy and to contribute representative videos: Incidentally, let me call your attention to the following event in Nagoya, Japan on March 24th, which (..)

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives. The language of the prompt--and the whole idea of the activity--is adult-oriented. Have you made a decision with surprising consequences?