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Internet governance update

Internet governance interests me and I have been following this story for a while now, and the concern by the European Union that the U.S. share governance is clearly is not going away. According to a Reuters story posted on Yahoo! News, "The European Commission on Friday took a swipe at U.S. oversight of the Internet but offered no concrete ...

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Google for us all

I was doing a little homework before attending a technology roundtable later today sponsored by TechuMentor. On the NetSquared blog, author Chris Locke mentions that corporations are beginning to refer to the "Goodle economy."  Locke then goes on to say: Nonprofits should similarly be aware of — and concerned about — the way Google is changing "business as usual." Traditional ...

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Great American Smokeout site–Texas style

As part of the Texas Division’s Great American Smokeout they’ve got the QuitNowBlog. It’s oriented to the college crowd (i.e., against smoking but no comment on beer). It’s advertised on MySpace and Facebook too. BTW, November 17 is the 29th year of the Society’s Great American Smokeout, and I’ve been around for every one of them (Groan!)

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Digital-ACS

Lately I’ve been thinking about how far the ACS ought to go in adopting digital technologies for interacting with "communities." I’ve been around a long time and most of the time our fundamental practices have been based on geography, what I think of as Terra-ACS. But when I look back at recent developments I see we’ve already adopted a lot ...

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