Posted on December 1, 2008 by 40brown
Cyber Monday marks the unofficial start of the online holiday shopping season… something akin to Black Friday for the brick and mortar stores.
There are deals and steals and bargains galore. Free shipping, 20, 30, 40% off, buy one, get one free…. you name it, you can find it online.
But don’t forget the nonprofits! Giving online [...]
Filed under: advocacy | Tagged: Africa, charity, children, cyber monday, Disability, donating, giving, nonprofits, online donation, online shopping, philanthropy | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 15, 2008 by 40brown
Today is Blog Action Day, and I’m taking part! On this day bloggers around the world are focusing on poverty, and hopefully encouraging their readers to take action!
I’m sure there will be lots of wonderful blog posts around the causes and solutions to global poverty – debt reduction, food crisis, international [...]
Filed under: Human Rights, International Development, advocacy, social media | Tagged: Africa, blog action day, causes of poverty, Disability, disability awareness, international aid, POA, poverty | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 3, 2008 by 40brown
This morning I read about a web application called Jott.com, which uses voice recognition to let users send email and text by speaking. The idea is that you call a phone number, select the destination of your message, then speak. The voice recognition program then turns your speech into text and will then send it [...]
Filed under: International Development, technology | Tagged: Africa, cell phones, connectivity, development, internet, mobile phone, technology, voice to text | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 12, 2008 by 40brown
I am very happy to report that I’ll be attending the Intercultural Management Institute’s conference on March 13 and 14. I am looking forward to many interesting panels and workshops.I’m also excited to try live blogging for the first time. I’ll be using www.coveritlive.com ’s application. I hope you join in!
To follow along, click here.
Filed under: Communications, networks, social media | Tagged: Africa, American University, blogging, blogs, collective intelligence, culture, Foreign policy, IMI, International Development, leadership, Learning, live blogging, management, ncc, NGO, nonprofits | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 22, 2008 by 40brown
Of all the questions posed to presidential candidates, only 5% are about human rights.
That’s according to a report recently released by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. But of that 5%, Darfur was an issue that was repeatedly addressed. In fact 23% of the human rights questions posed to Democrats were about Darfur, ( [...]
Filed under: Human Rights, Uncategorized | Tagged: Africa, Darfur, election, Gayle Smith, Politics, president, presidential campaign, Refugees, Sudan | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 13, 2007 by 40brown
I picked up this book because it is listed in the reading material for the MIT Open Course Ware’s class, Gender, Power and International Development. I am slowly working through this course and would love to hear from anyone else who has gone through it, either on campus or online.
From the inside flap:
“After a childless [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Africa, African Literatur, Books, Books Around the World, Buchi Emecheta, Colonialism, Gender Issues, Lagos, Nigeria | Leave a Comment »
