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  • KC Baker’s Words of Wisdom

    KC Baker’s Words of Wisdom

    KC Baker, founder of The School For The Well Spoken Woman, shares some inspirational words for women everywhere. Find out more about KC Baker at http://www.kcbaker.com And take a look at her interviews with our very own Rebekah Austin And check us out on Part-1 And check us out on Part-2 Be sure to follow us on Twitter! And check us out on Facebook As of 2009 the Dali Llama said “The Western woman will save the world.” And what [...]

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  • Juice To You Organics

    Juice To You Organics

    Charles Gulick is a 28 year old entrepreneur and founder of Juice To You, a local San Francisco organic juice pressing company. Five years ago Charles Gulick was diagnosed with a rare liver disease before the company had first commenced. PSC (Primary Sclerosin Cholangitis) is a chronic liver disease caused by progressive inflammation and scarring of the bile ducts of the liver. Gulick underwent several invasive procedures where a physician entered through his mouth and dilate his bile ducts under [...]

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  • Do Something!

    Do Something!

    Dosomething.org is a non profit organization that advocates the participation of young people in their community today! The website strives to achieve social change. “Do Something” manifests the idea that instead of watching television or playing sports, more value is found by volunteering within their community. Television is so ingrained in the daily lives of young people, provoking the idea of volunteerism is a stretch. Every year dosomething.org hosts a contest for the most creative, communal and impacting volunteer project [...]

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  • How Intel And Lenovo Are Meeting The Challenges Of The Digital Divide In Rural China

    How Intel And Lenovo Are Meeting The Challenges Of The Digital Divide In Rural China

    One of the issues facing the digital divide is giving rural communities access to technology. Intel and Lenovo have partnered with Planet Finance China, a micro financing initiative to deliver ThinkPad PC’s to rural communities in China. Together they are building “The Rural Business And Innovation Center” which houses the PCs (as explained in the video above). It’s through initiatives like this that we are gradually introducing people in developing countries to the power of technology. As mentioned on the [...]

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  • The 24/7 Social Media “Expert”

    The 24/7 Social Media “Expert”

    With social media taking up our time and vast amounts of content being produced small businesses and marketers alike are in search of the magic way to reach the audience, however I don’t believe 24/7 updating is working for their business.

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  • Twitter, YouTube and Communities via spam bots

    Twitter, YouTube and Communities via spam bots

    In today’s society the fights we get into online often materialize in the real world, sometimes resulting in negative social interactions all together. Lisa Nova likely used bots to build her friends and subscribers on YouTube and despite the backlash, is currently one of the most subscribed-to on YouTube. I appreciate Ze Frank’s Color War approach, however I’m more fascinated in the relationship and the connections we make online. Ze started the game and everyone joined in to pick a [...]

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