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The buzz around massive climate voter turnout this election is bigger than ever, and we’re beyond excited for you to join us tonight at 8:30pm Eastern for our webcast with Al Gore to turn it up yet another notch.
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Vice President Gore will speak about the role of young people in RePowering America and why it’s so important that we get as many climate voters as possible to turn out on November 4th at our country’s most important battle ground: the ballot box.
The webcast feed will go live at 8pm Eastern - 30 minutes before Mr. Gore begins speaking - so that if you are hosting a viewing party you will be able to set up and test your equipment. Again, the web...
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Welcome to the great Mystery Shopping Adventure 2008! We’ve just tried to donate to 15 of Ireland’s largest and most well known charities - but one wouldn’t accept online donations. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing our experiences of being a donor in today’s Ireland.
But let’s start with the basics - saying thank you. You know, the way your parents taught you to when you were a child.
Of the 14 charities we donated to this afternoon, 11 have sent me a thank you email. Which means nearly a quarter of them didn’t bother (in fact one didn’t even bother to record either my email address or my postal address - more on that later).
Stay tuned for more…Technorati Tags: mystery shopping, charity, nonprofit, fundraising,...
Do you use your creativity to make the world a better place? Well, why not join the facebook group Creatives for Change that myself and Marc Van Gurp are running.
Technorati Tags: facebook, creativity, change, nonprofit, campaigning, social network...
The situation in Iraq has been worsening over the past few months.
A colleague of one of the doctors working in the children’s hospital in Basra was recently found dead in a rubbish dump, her body cut into pieces.
One important ward of the chilren’s hospital will close if my colleague in Vienna cannot help, and I hope [...]...
I’ve stumbled across a bunch of interesting blogs recently. Here’s a selection.
From the world of marketing & communications…
… there’s Copyblogger (’copywriting tips for online marketing success’). There’s plenty of tips about search engine optimisation, blogs, generating more vistitors simply how to be a better writer.
… and for anyone missing The West Wing, there’s Potomac Flacks, full of all the latest gossip from Washington about the spinners and spokespersons. No mention of Toby Ziegler though….
if the environment is your thing (and after the latest IPCC report, you should at least have a passing interest) then have a look at…
… How can I recycle this?. This one doesn’t really need an...
Action! via 4basra November 6th, 2006 at 14:03
BBC Films are currently in Dublin filming The Baker Street Irregulars, a Sherlock Holmes mystery for BBC One and Children’s BBC.
The exterior of the building which houses the 4Basra office (which was perhaps a sitting room or dining room once upon a time) is being used in the film.
However, the crew have also hung blinds [...]...
Consumer tastes are notoriously fickle, changing at an ever-faster pace.
Nonetheless, contributions from the ubiquitous ‘Red’ campaign – Motorola mobile phones, The Independent newspaper, Ipods, credit cards, etc. – recently topped $10 million.
As yesterday’s Sunday Times reported, Ali Hewson’s Edun ethical fashion range is another recent example.
Closer to home, Oxfam Ireland launched The Cake Sale: a [...]...
Last week I learned of the sad news of a well-known female gynaecologist in Basra.
Dr Youssra Hashem was killed on her way to work, shortly as she left her home.
Read more on the subject in my piece for Village magazine.......
Having lunch with some relatives recently, my uncle mentioned he was thinking of doing some voluntary work.
He runs a successful small business and there is no doubt that some of his skills and experienced would be valuable to a charity or NGO of some sort.
My advice was that he should look into the idea and [...]...
Journalist John Humphrys reported from Basra this week for the influential BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
Listen to the ‘Reconstruction and Corruption’ report as he speaks to the Director of one of the city’s hospitals and describes the conditions there....
This afternoon I had a telephone interview with Paul O’Hara of Ashoka Ireland.
Although I have not made the shortlist for the Ashoka Ireland fellowship, it was a pleasure to describe the short history of the 4Basra project and enlighten Paul as to the direction I hope it will take.
The interview was by no means a [...]...
Vienna via 4basra October 14th, 2006 at 17:37
The trip to Vienna went well. The New Internationalist magazine might be interested in a small article about the organisation. Follow-up calls will tell whether anyone else will publish a piece about the organisation.
My hotel lacked a wi-fi connection, and I neglected to take any photos with my camera phone. One or two others taken with a digital [...]...
Up until now it has been a challenge to find a designer who had the time, and more importantly had the artistic vision and imagination to come up with a logo for 4Basra.
That is not to say that other ideas and the time spent on them were not appreciated, I hasten to add: it’s just [...]...
Both people sharing the office with me are also working in media-related roles: one helps to manage the website of a UK national newspaper.
Earlier on today, I found this website of one of another media-related company very close by the office. There is also a PR company down the road.
For my part, I have recently been [...]...