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• Free TV Shows And Their Social Impact

  
  Watch Movie Online — Authority: 134
  Through the years, the myriad variety of free TV shows had somehow generated around the same number of studies focusing mostly on the positive or negative influence of these shows on the viewers. So far, the results had been a fuzzy stalemate. Today, the viewing interest of people had not waned after all these years. ...
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• Social Impacts of Climate Change in Bolivia : a Municipal Level Analysis of the Effects of Recent Climate Change on Life Expectancy, Consumption, Poverty and Inequality

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 140
  World Bank Research WPS 5092 by Lykke E. Andersen and Dorte Verner http://tinyurl.com/yzq5n8h [Summary] This paper analyzes the direct evidence of climate change in Bolivia during the past 60 years, and estimates how these changes have affected life expectancy and consumption levels for each of the 311 ...
  5 days ago

• Social Impacts of Climate Change in Peru : a District Level Analysis of the Effects of recent and future climate change on human development and inequality

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 140
  World Bank Research WPS 5091 by Lykke E. Andersen, Addy Suxo, and Dorte Verner http://tinyurl.com/yg7nnvt [Summary] This paper uses district level data to estimate the general relationship between climate, income and life expectancy in Peru. The analysis finds that both incomes and life expectancy show ...
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• The Council on Social Action: Twelve Snapshots

  
  linksUK — Authority: 120
  The Council on Social Action was set up by the Prime Minister in 2007.  It brought together innovators from every sector to generate ideas and initiatives through which government and other key stakeholders can catalyse, develop and celebrate social action.     The Council considered “social action” to ...
  6 days ago

• Pink Gloves, Hashtags and Lost Opportunities

  
  PR Conversations — Authority: 107
  A few weeks ago on the Hobson and Holtz Report (For Immediate Release 493) , Shel Holtz mentioned that participants at this year’s Blog World Expo had been requested to use the Twitter hashtag #fightcancer during the day in order to raise awareness for the fight against the disease. At the time, I remember ...
  1 week ago

• Wall Street Journal Discussion on State of Anime Industry now

  
  Anime Comments and Reviews — Authority: 124
  Basically this article talks about poor state of animation industry workers and struggling economy as pointed earlier in this blog. Osamu Tezuka pioneering work in anime also brings in the concept of cheap pay for mass production of anime, this is recent result of his vision. The more detailed link from WSJ. ...
  2 weeks ago

• A real guy marries a girl from some game...WHAT?

  
  Anime Comments and Reviews — Authority: 124
  Oh humanity! What kinda retarded shit is this? And Japan was wondering why they are running out of kids now. Basically this dude goes by pseudo name of SAL 9000 marries this character from some game. The rest I leave it to the video to elaborate further. anime
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• Nearly 90 Percent of Nonprofits Experimenting with Social Media

  
  Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News — Authority: 138
  Research by Weber Shandwick’s Social Impact team conducted with KRC Research has found that 88 percent of non-profit organizations are experimenting with social media to engage key... (Click on the title for the full story...)
  2 weeks ago

• Zooming in and out on microfinance

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 504
  By Thomas Gold, KF9 Dominican Republic For English version, click on “(more…)”, then scroll down. Après un mois passé dans la  succursale de Samanà de mon institution de microfinance Esperanza, me voici, de retour à la capitale Santo Domingo, après une journée entière de voyage. Samanà ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mobile Accord Receives Mobile Marketing Association Award for Social Impact (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

  
  Stompernet SEO Course — Authority: 166
  Mobile Accord has received the Mobile Marketing Associations 2009 Global Mobile Marketing Award for Social Impact in recognition of the companys historic mGive mobile giving campaign for Alicia Keys Keep a Child Alive foundation.
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• The Social and Technological Innovations in Social Media: Video of recent panel presentations moderated by Henry Jenkins at the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism

  
  Interactive Multimedia Technology — Authority: 498
  Times are changing faster than we can change the buzzwords that convey this change. Social Media. Spreadibility. Immersive Journalism.Henry Jenkins, the Provosts Professor of Communication,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 weeks ago

• Skin Care and the Physiology of the Skin

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  The largest organ of the human body is the skin. It protects our bodies from the environment, maintains body temperature, excretes waste matter, gives sensory information to the brain and regulates body moisture. We think about our skin more than any other part of our bodies, and we manifest that attention by ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Majority Of Nonprofits Embrace Social Media

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 703
  The majority (88%) of nonprofit organizations are experimenting with social media to engage audiences, but 79 percent are not sure of its value for their organizations, according to a new survey by Weber Shandwicks Social Impact team and KRC Research. "We know from our work with nonprofits that most realize the ...
  3 weeks ago

• If religion divides - why join one? If truth is universal, why "label" oneself? Why call oneself "Bahai", and not just believe, and remain open?

  
  Bah' Epistolary — Authority: 107
  Following good feedback, this is a podcast (my second!)of another talk I gave at Cambridge University, addressing the perennial question that Bahais encounter: "I like the Bahai teachings very much, I even love Bahaullah, but I dont want to label myself, I want to be free to be myself, and not divide myself from ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is unity always good? Really? Is diversity always positive? Really? Is there a measurable social impact to Bahai community life?

  
  Bah' Epistolary — Authority: 107
  Is unity always a good thing? Is diversity always an enrichment? Do Bahai claims and approaches to unity in diversity stand in light of scientific research on group functioning? Is there a science to being united? Baha’is speak a lot about the value of unity in diversity. Since this ideal was formulated by ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Internet – empowering your community

  
  it.gen.nz — Authority: 104
  Today I’m talking at the Engaging Your Community conference at Massey University in Wellington. I’m going to asking and answering questions like “where did the Internet come from?” and “why is it uniquely suited for community use?”. I’ll look at posting a version of my speaker notes here soon. When I ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hybrid Companies and the Future of the Economy: An Interview with Criterion’s Andrew Greenblatt

  
  Technology you can trust here... — Authority: 129
  In the past, it was easy. Corporations made money. Nonprofits helped the world. If a corporation wanted to help the world, it would donate to a nonprofit, or set up its own foundation. That model is changing. Social ventures, a new kind of for- and nonprofit hybrid, are easing their way into the business world. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tell the FDA the whole story, please

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 543
  I scan menus for keywords (fig, parsnips, salmon…) and it turns out I scan Twitter the same way, looking for anyone who is talking about my favorite topics (data, consumers, information quality…) So when I saw Jonathan Richman ’s tweet the other night, I couldn’t resist it: Anyone ever seen data on the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Church of Nerv? What?

  
  Anime Comments and Reviews — Authority: 124
  I never thought of this. Honestly. They even have the logo from old series as their emblem?
  4 weeks ago

• I am amused by this....

  
  Anime Comments and Reviews — Authority: 124
  Hmmmm, Despite the predicted horrific sales prospect for Haruhi S2 DVD/BD sales because of much maligned Endless Eight arc , it did pretty well. The 2nd disc of Endless Eight arc sold close to 12,900 (benchmark is 3000) copies showing that Kyoto Animation magic still held true with massive support from loyal Haruhi ...
  5 weeks ago

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