262 posts tagged grass roots

The LiMo Foundation, Android’s chief competitor in the mobile open-source community, today announced eight new members, including Verizon Wireless, along with leading South Korean network operator SK Telecom and Mozilla Corp., parent of the Firefox Web browser.

Jason Chaffetz kicked off the next phase of his campaign today. Jennifer Scott, Chaffetz’s Campaign Manager, said today that they are kicking off “the biggest grass roots effort in the history of [Utah's] Third District.” The campaign plans to take advantage of new technologies to help distribute

USPS Green Efforts May 13th, 2008 On April 14th, USPS launched their green web site with 5 different sections: eco-friendly products and services, greening your mail, recycle, innovation and direct, and green. The site also promotes stamps that have been issued in the past promoting conservation and nature.

Help needed ASAP by Chris Lato Regular visitors to this site know we’re all about the politics, the public affairs, the public relations, the messaging…you know the score. Today I’m doing something a bit different - asking for your help for a good cause.

Earthlink says it’s closing the Philadelphia Wi-Fi Network on June 12. According to their press release: EarthLink today notified its Wi-Fi customers in Philadelphia that EarthLink is terminating its Philadelphia Wi-Fi service and that EarthLink is providing its customers a thirty-day transition period through June 12, 2008.

Indigenous People’s Issues Today runs a series of “Five Key Indigenous Peoples Issues” that in the latest edition features a story from Ecuador… New Ecuador Constitution Addresses Demand for ‘Plurinational’ State Ecuador’s new constitution, which a constituent assembly expects to finish drafting

Turnoffs for Social Net Users May 12th, 2008   A recent poll by an online marketing consultancy, Prospectiv, based in Woburn, Mass., showed that 62 percent of the nearly 800 online social network users said they preferred ads from their favorite brands; 87 percent of those online users said that few or no ads matched their interests or preferences.

From the BBC’s website this morning: I was beginning to think Twitter - the micro-blogging service that’s all the rage amongst the technorati - was just another fad for people who want to share too much of their rather dull lives. Until this morning.

Dear dr. De Giorgio, Staggering new estimates suggest that 100,000 people may have died in Burma’s terrible cyclone. Incredibly, the corrupt and brutal Burmese government has stopped most international aid at the borders and is impeding the relief effort.

”Hispanics cultivate the most extensive personal and professional networks both online and offline among those studied, attesting to the potential effectiveness of grass-roots and viral campaigns,” reported Theresa Rice, director, U.S. Hispanic for Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations and communications firm.