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1261 Articles match "Global"
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
From the introduction : “vast amounts of plant and animal genetic material are collected and microorganisms isolated throughout the world from various habitats and sources, and exchanged in collaborative research networks for the improvement of global food security, public health and climate change mitigation” but “the relatively frictionless exchange of biological materials within a global commons, which prevailed during the early days of modern life sciences, now seems to be reversed. Namely, “self-governance in global science communities, participatory
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
But more and more firms now have access to the rich data they need to make a customer-cultivating strategy work. Building Relationships B2B companies, for instance, use key account managers and global account directors to focus on meeting customers’ evolving needs, rather than selling specific products. Harvard Business Review Cart My Account Downloads Explore Today on HBR Blogs Magazine Books Authors Store Harvard Business School
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
recent issue of the attractive, well-designed magazine, which is also available online, includes articles that take stock of the global justice movement since Seattle; the need for a shift of power and wealth from the global North to the global South in order to avert climate catastrophe; and an account of popular democracy in the barrios of Venezuela. Hillary Wainwright is one of the finest people I have met over the last few years, so I’m happy to share this profile, written by my friend David Bollier :
“If you want to learn the nitty-gritty about social transformation in our times — What works and what doesn’t?
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
RSS Contact Us Consumer Health Media And Entertainment Online And Mobile Politics Sports Social Networking’s New Global Footprint March 9th, 2009 Posted in Global , Media And Entertainment , Nielsen News , Online And Mobile | 26 Comments Two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit social networking or blogging sites, accounting for almost 10% of all internet time, according to a new Nielsen report “ Global Faces and Networked Places .” 8221; If data captured
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Culture Entertainment Gadgets Gaming How-To Med Tech Multimedia Politics
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Global Neighbourhoods « SM Global Report: Sun Micros Peter Reiser | Main | OnLine Tribalism & the Future of Social Media » September 09, 2008 SM Global Report: Beelines Francois Gossieaux Tribalism in the Online Community [ Francois Gossieaux speaking at SuperNova. And please, dont start your community project as a technology platform selection. Posted by shel on September 09, 2008 | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
useful survey from global PR firm Burson-Marsteller this week looks at the ways in which the Global Fortune 100 companies are using social media . 65% of Fortune Global 100 firms have a Twitter account. Facebook Fan pages are less popular that Twitter, with 54% of Fortune Global 100 firms having a page. Image by Robert S. Donovan via Flickr
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Our friends at HealthMap have created a very useful iPhone App for those in the global health community who need to track and/or report disease outbreaks--from swine flu to diseases affecting crops and animals. and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious
diseases Tags: Global Healt HealthMap brings together disparate data sources from all over the web to achieve a unified
and diseases and their effect on human and animal health.
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Also From Workplace Courses to Communities (PDF from the Journal) From workplace courses to global conversations Nancy White and Josien Kapma A growing number of people and organizations in various sectors are focusing on communities (of practice) and networks, as a key to improving their performance. How are communities related to globalization and an increasingly networked world? Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Aug 27 2008 From courses to community: Josien Kapma and Nancy White Published by Nancy White at 6:42 am under communities of practice , learning This is an article that Josien Kapma
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Not a day for MacLaren
Maclaren has become the latest victim of social media activism. They have joined a growing list of companies to have suffered at the hands of bloggers and Tweeters [Twitterers?] .
I I find this story interesting for two reasons:
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Monday, April 13, 2009
The model you’re discussing, Ryan, sounds to me very similar to the idea of the “global city” in Sassen (to a lesser degree also the diffuse smoothed capitalism of Hardt/Negri and William Robinson). Where I think it differs is that the “global city” model is actually very exclusionary - a few nodes become very dense sites of capitalist intersections while most others are marginalised; so one ends up with a dense web of small local sites drawing in resources from a massive, geographically proximate periphery. Contribution by Andy Robinson on the p2p research list , which I’m upgrading, because of its thoughtfullness, to a full blog entry.
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
I've been a fan of Global Voices , since I discovered it. The slogan of Global Voices is: " The World is talking, are you listening ?" Via Beth Kanter , and Emmanuel K Bensah , who are both bridgebloggers for Global Voices (Cambodja and Ghana respectively) I learned what a bridgeblogger is. Reuters , the news agency, places a feeds from Global Voices. Via Ethan Zuckerman's blogpost I learned that it's now in the top 200 blogs of Technorati , the blog search engine. and they hope to make information available via blogs all over the world, but particularly in the
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." We're doing some interesting work this week bringing the online dimension to a face-t0-face event. It's a three-day gathering of economists and development policy experts from almost every continent.
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