My Voice an exclusive consumer panel - Just recieved the email invition from MTV Networks Insider which makes you "be the first to tell you about exciting promotions and giveaways from MTV Networks'
advertisers and partners" but alas it is for American people as trying to sign iy up returned "We’re really sorry, but right now this community is only open to people who live in the United States."
Now in global village era every one is world citizen and hope soon to get such consumer participation.
BTW movie buff, tv addict, pop culture connoisseur are invited to My Voice an exclusive consumer panel for participating $1,000 contest for US citizen only and it gives exclusive access to cool contests.
So how the offer initiates is simple, "Your Invitation from MTV Networks: Join My Voice, an Exclusive Panel for You!" emails come vie MTV networks, just be member there and things come on you ways.
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water, sanitation and health education to Alaba Special Woreda
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia - Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks announced their partnership with Save the Children Finland to help alleviate the existing water problem made worse by the current drought in Alaba Special Woreda through collaboration with the Woreda administration and its relevant offices. The collaboration between Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Save the Children Finland was initiated as a response to the urgent needs of children and their families in Alaba Special Woreda, an area which is severely dependent on rainfall and, where people are forced to travel every day over 20km to fetch water during dry seasons. Due to fluctuations in rainfall, the northern part of Alaba Woreda faces regular shortage of rain which affects the whole community in general but specifically children, who suffer from improper sanitation, water borne diseases and early school drop-out as incomes are reduced when cattle rearing becomes difficult. The impact of the drought has been made worse by the recent increases in food prices, which have further increased the hardships experienced by the community.
'This partnership emanates from the belief that the solutions to emergency situations have to be driven by long-term sustainable efforts that centre on community uplifment', emphasized Micheline Ntiru, Head of Community Involvement, Nokia Middle East and Africa. 'Forging partnerships with the local government and community is paramount to bringing meaningful change in any community'. 'Children form the most vulnerable group that is worst affected by the current emergency, therefore our partnership strives to strengthen their right and access to water and sanitation, as well as enhance the livelihoods of the community, explains Dr. Tibebu Bogale, Save the Children Finland's Country Director in Ethiopia. 'The project aims to improve the lives of thousands of children and adults with sustainable results that will allow new community development initiatives to be undertaken in the future.'
Through this project six community managed water points will be set up in Alaba Woreda thus leading to improved sanitation and health. Together with hygiene education as well as cash-for-work initiatives for parents, the project will ensure that children are able to stay in school through the drought. In total five basic education centers will be equipped not only with books but also with solar panels thus harnessing the natural resource to provide electricity. 'While we are focusing on alleviating the community from the prevailing drought and famine, we also believe that providing the youth with education will go a long way in opening up opportunities later in life that will enable them and the next generations to rise out of poverty' said Micke Maltusch, Ethiopia Country Director for Nokia Siemens Networks. Furthermore the local community will be trained and equipped with the knowledge and capacity to properly manage and ensure the sustainability of water points within the area. Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Save the Children Finland look forward to seeing the children in Alaba Woreda having access to clean water and health education. As a sign of wider partnership, project funding will also be supplemented with an upcoming grant from the Government of Finland and additional financial support from the Woreda.
The project in Alaba Woreda is part of Save the Children's humanitarian programme in Ethiopia related to food insecurity and drought. International Save the Children Alliance members are currently working to help nearly 900 000 people in six of the worst-affected regions. Work includes setting up work schemes to provide parents with a way to earn food and money, providing clean water, emergency feeding and healthcare for malnourished children, delivering veterinary drugs and animal feed to help families keep their animals alive. In Africa, Nokia has worked with the Red Cross in Ghana and Kenya, responding to the devastating floods of 2007 as well as the civil unrest in early 2008 respectively. In these efforts, Nokia always emphasizes long-term rehabilitation of devastated communities.
Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Save the Children Finland in Partnership to provide water, sanitation and health education to Alaba Special Woreda, December 04, 2008, Nokia Press
'This partnership emanates from the belief that the solutions to emergency situations have to be driven by long-term sustainable efforts that centre on community uplifment', emphasized Micheline Ntiru, Head of Community Involvement, Nokia Middle East and Africa. 'Forging partnerships with the local government and community is paramount to bringing meaningful change in any community'. 'Children form the most vulnerable group that is worst affected by the current emergency, therefore our partnership strives to strengthen their right and access to water and sanitation, as well as enhance the livelihoods of the community, explains Dr. Tibebu Bogale, Save the Children Finland's Country Director in Ethiopia. 'The project aims to improve the lives of thousands of children and adults with sustainable results that will allow new community development initiatives to be undertaken in the future.'
Through this project six community managed water points will be set up in Alaba Woreda thus leading to improved sanitation and health. Together with hygiene education as well as cash-for-work initiatives for parents, the project will ensure that children are able to stay in school through the drought. In total five basic education centers will be equipped not only with books but also with solar panels thus harnessing the natural resource to provide electricity. 'While we are focusing on alleviating the community from the prevailing drought and famine, we also believe that providing the youth with education will go a long way in opening up opportunities later in life that will enable them and the next generations to rise out of poverty' said Micke Maltusch, Ethiopia Country Director for Nokia Siemens Networks. Furthermore the local community will be trained and equipped with the knowledge and capacity to properly manage and ensure the sustainability of water points within the area. Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Save the Children Finland look forward to seeing the children in Alaba Woreda having access to clean water and health education. As a sign of wider partnership, project funding will also be supplemented with an upcoming grant from the Government of Finland and additional financial support from the Woreda.
The project in Alaba Woreda is part of Save the Children's humanitarian programme in Ethiopia related to food insecurity and drought. International Save the Children Alliance members are currently working to help nearly 900 000 people in six of the worst-affected regions. Work includes setting up work schemes to provide parents with a way to earn food and money, providing clean water, emergency feeding and healthcare for malnourished children, delivering veterinary drugs and animal feed to help families keep their animals alive. In Africa, Nokia has worked with the Red Cross in Ghana and Kenya, responding to the devastating floods of 2007 as well as the civil unrest in early 2008 respectively. In these efforts, Nokia always emphasizes long-term rehabilitation of devastated communities.
Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Save the Children Finland in Partnership to provide water, sanitation and health education to Alaba Special Woreda, December 04, 2008, Nokia Press
What is Z Spot Now? (& FujiFilm Connection?)
No Age Perform at Fujifilm's 'Z Spot LA' Event - Video
ZSpot or Z Spot Now is a very special type of social network by FujiFilm. Well straight from horses mouth what the Fuji Big Guns say - "Fujifilm recognized that this younger, style-savvy generation wants to be able to engage with a brand. We didn't want to just create a website that would speak to them – we wanted to hear what they had to say and offer a place for the community that uses the camera to share." says Ron Gazzola, VP of Marketing, Fujifilm, "We researched the various social networking platforms out there and selected Ning based on its ability to bring together communities of common interest and lifestyle in an environment that allows for organic growth."
"Ning enables anyone – individuals or companies – to create their own social networks for anything. With ZSpotNow, Fujifilm has taken advantage of the freedom and flexibility Ning offers to create the exact right social network for them." says Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning, Inc.
Story will contitue with time, you can have a look on Fujifilm's Star-Studded Fashion & Technology Event in New York City
ZSpot or Z Spot Now is a very special type of social network by FujiFilm. Well straight from horses mouth what the Fuji Big Guns say - "Fujifilm recognized that this younger, style-savvy generation wants to be able to engage with a brand. We didn't want to just create a website that would speak to them – we wanted to hear what they had to say and offer a place for the community that uses the camera to share." says Ron Gazzola, VP of Marketing, Fujifilm, "We researched the various social networking platforms out there and selected Ning based on its ability to bring together communities of common interest and lifestyle in an environment that allows for organic growth."
"Ning enables anyone – individuals or companies – to create their own social networks for anything. With ZSpotNow, Fujifilm has taken advantage of the freedom and flexibility Ning offers to create the exact right social network for them." says Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning, Inc.
Story will contitue with time, you can have a look on Fujifilm's Star-Studded Fashion & Technology Event in New York City
Netvibes presents magazine style startpages
Netvibes Helps Widgets Break Out of The Box With New Magazine Layout Startpages and Multi-view Widgets - Netvibes unveils industry's first magazine style formats for startpages and widgets that completely transform the way people visualize RSS feed content Our instant branded widget creation tools, dynamic layouts and new OpenSocial capabilities, solve these problems with smart, social and universally compatible widgets that are easy to create and distribute directly to millions of users on Netvibes.com. - San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 10, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, today announced that it has launched the Web's first flexible, magazine style startpages and multi-view widgets. Now widgets can be resized across different columns and display rich RSS feeds in a variety of exciting new layouts. Netvibes also introduced instant widget creation tools that make it easier than ever to rapidly design and deploy fully customized and branded widgets that are compatible across all major startpage and desktop platforms.
With dynamic layouts, widgets can finally break out of the traditional column-only format, enabling branded media content to be published exactly the way it was meant to be seen. Dynamic magazine style layouts allow users to resize and reshape widgets in different formats across multiple columns--a dozen new layouts in total.
Netvibes multi-view widgets transform any standard RSS feed into more engaging, interactive media experiences by displaying text, photo and video content in four different views: Ticker (scrolling headlines), Carousel (gallery), Magazine (front page plus gallery) and Normal (list view). In addition, content can be expanded with the Netvibes Feed Reader to display full-page content views or the original website itself.
For screencasts and more information on Netvibes' flexible layout and multi-view widget formats, visit: http://blog.netvibes.com/
Netvibes developed these new widget design formats to meet the needs of top media publishers and users alike. Launch partners include leading media publisher CondéNet and French newspaper Le Parisien, who helped design and optimize these new widget layout formats for displaying content in more engaging styles.
"We recognize feeds, widgets and startpages as an efficient way to
deliver our content to large, dedicated audiences," said Bernie Davis,
Director of Content Distribution for CondéNet. "Netvibes continues to be a leader and innovator in this space, and we're pleased to partner with them to create new visual formats and layouts that maximize the
impact of our content."
"We are very proud to be part of Netvibes' new widget design technology. This partnership underlines our commitment as a leading, innovative player in the French online publishing landscape, particularly in video news," said Isabelle André, New Media Director, Groupe Le Parisien. "We're strongly convinced that this new approach will greatly facilitate creative RSS usage and widget publishing, to reach even wider audiences on the Web."
New Instant Widget Publishing Tools
Netvibes also introduced an instant widget creation wizard to help brands and online marketers quickly and easily create fully customized widgets. This new tool enables anyone to create their own multi-tabbed, multi-feed widget, with full control over design and branding, in just a few simple steps. Since all of these widgets are built using the Netvibes Universal Widget API (UWA), the leading universal widget standard, they are fully compatible across all major startpage and desktop platforms. More information is available at: http://eco.netvibes.com/submit/widget
"Until now, marketers and media companies were often limited to displaying branded content within a static box, and developers faced an endless array of different widget platforms to code for," said Freddy Mini, CEO Netvibes. "Our instant branded widget creation tools, dynamic layouts and new OpenSocial capabilities, solve these problems with smart, social and universally compatible widgets that are easy to create and distribute directly to millions of users on Netvibes.com."
Earlier this week, Netvibes announced OpenSocial compatibility, enabling developers to rapidly build a new generation of smart, social widgets that can instantly tap into users' social networks and run on virtually all widget platforms and desktops. More information is available at: Blog.netvibes.com . Founded in 2005, Netvibes pioneered the personalized startpage as alternative to traditional web portals. Today, Netvibes is a global community of users who are taking control of their digital lives by personalizing their web experience. Netvibes lets individuals assemble all in one place their favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and everything else they enjoy on the Web.
Netvibes helps the world's top brands, marketing agencies and developers create cross-platform widgets, guarantee distribution and installation across a global audience of widget users on Netvibes.com, and deploy custom branded widget startpage portals within their own Web properties. Netvibes has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco.
With dynamic layouts, widgets can finally break out of the traditional column-only format, enabling branded media content to be published exactly the way it was meant to be seen. Dynamic magazine style layouts allow users to resize and reshape widgets in different formats across multiple columns--a dozen new layouts in total.
Netvibes multi-view widgets transform any standard RSS feed into more engaging, interactive media experiences by displaying text, photo and video content in four different views: Ticker (scrolling headlines), Carousel (gallery), Magazine (front page plus gallery) and Normal (list view). In addition, content can be expanded with the Netvibes Feed Reader to display full-page content views or the original website itself.
For screencasts and more information on Netvibes' flexible layout and multi-view widget formats, visit: http://blog.netvibes.com/
Netvibes developed these new widget design formats to meet the needs of top media publishers and users alike. Launch partners include leading media publisher CondéNet and French newspaper Le Parisien, who helped design and optimize these new widget layout formats for displaying content in more engaging styles.
"We recognize feeds, widgets and startpages as an efficient way to
deliver our content to large, dedicated audiences," said Bernie Davis,
Director of Content Distribution for CondéNet. "Netvibes continues to be a leader and innovator in this space, and we're pleased to partner with them to create new visual formats and layouts that maximize the
impact of our content."
"We are very proud to be part of Netvibes' new widget design technology. This partnership underlines our commitment as a leading, innovative player in the French online publishing landscape, particularly in video news," said Isabelle André, New Media Director, Groupe Le Parisien. "We're strongly convinced that this new approach will greatly facilitate creative RSS usage and widget publishing, to reach even wider audiences on the Web."
New Instant Widget Publishing Tools
Netvibes also introduced an instant widget creation wizard to help brands and online marketers quickly and easily create fully customized widgets. This new tool enables anyone to create their own multi-tabbed, multi-feed widget, with full control over design and branding, in just a few simple steps. Since all of these widgets are built using the Netvibes Universal Widget API (UWA), the leading universal widget standard, they are fully compatible across all major startpage and desktop platforms. More information is available at: http://eco.netvibes.com/submit/widget
"Until now, marketers and media companies were often limited to displaying branded content within a static box, and developers faced an endless array of different widget platforms to code for," said Freddy Mini, CEO Netvibes. "Our instant branded widget creation tools, dynamic layouts and new OpenSocial capabilities, solve these problems with smart, social and universally compatible widgets that are easy to create and distribute directly to millions of users on Netvibes.com."
Earlier this week, Netvibes announced OpenSocial compatibility, enabling developers to rapidly build a new generation of smart, social widgets that can instantly tap into users' social networks and run on virtually all widget platforms and desktops. More information is available at: Blog.netvibes.com . Founded in 2005, Netvibes pioneered the personalized startpage as alternative to traditional web portals. Today, Netvibes is a global community of users who are taking control of their digital lives by personalizing their web experience. Netvibes lets individuals assemble all in one place their favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and everything else they enjoy on the Web.
Netvibes helps the world's top brands, marketing agencies and developers create cross-platform widgets, guarantee distribution and installation across a global audience of widget users on Netvibes.com, and deploy custom branded widget startpage portals within their own Web properties. Netvibes has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco.
Enterprise Social Networking Conference
Dow Jones & Company to Discuss B2B Social Networking in Miami on January 22-23, 2009 at SNC2009 - Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces that Tom Aley, Senior Vice President at Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: NWS) will present at the Enterprise Social Networking Conference taking place on January 22-23, 2009, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. - New York, NY, United States, 12/10/2008 – Mr. Tom Aley, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Business and Relationship Intelligence, Dow Jones & Company, will be sharing with attendees how the company views social media in the business community and how major corporations are leveraging next generation relationship solutions to further their business goals. Given the difficult economic times, when vendors are trying to better delineate corporate hierarchies and how they can influence them through discovering hidden relationships, these solutions can be very effective. Mr. Aley will also discuss social media’s potential impact on markets, both positive and negative.
“It is exciting to be part of a conference focusing on social networking in the business setting.” stated Mr. Aley. “B2B social networking is truly playing an integral role in daily business practices. Connections derived from social networking open doors, speed up business cycles, and seal deals demonstrating the need for social networking in effective and efficient businesses.” The Social Networking Conference taking place in Miami is the leading business convention for the social networking and social media industries. The event covers business and enterprise social networking. It also discusses working business models and new technologies.
Executives from the following industries will be attending the event: Social Networking, Social Media, Enterprise & Venture Capital, Software, Mobile Telecommunications, Interactive Marketing, Widgets & Mashups, Internet/Mobile Payment Processing, Background Search firms and others. Dow Jones & Company is a News Corporation company (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Business and Relationship Intelligence, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S.
Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence provides leading customer intelligence solutions that enable organizations to identify and connect to the best business opportunities. The combination of next generation technology with actionable information powers the performance of sales and research professionals plus media organizations. Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence’s award-winning solutions include the most up to date and accurate global intelligence on millions of companies, the executives that manage them and the relationships that link them.
Integrating these tools and content behind your firewall - connecting vital internal and external customer information in context for salespeople - provides a single, complete view of a customer further increasing your effectiveness. -- Source - (PRZOOM - LINK)
“It is exciting to be part of a conference focusing on social networking in the business setting.” stated Mr. Aley. “B2B social networking is truly playing an integral role in daily business practices. Connections derived from social networking open doors, speed up business cycles, and seal deals demonstrating the need for social networking in effective and efficient businesses.” The Social Networking Conference taking place in Miami is the leading business convention for the social networking and social media industries. The event covers business and enterprise social networking. It also discusses working business models and new technologies.
Executives from the following industries will be attending the event: Social Networking, Social Media, Enterprise & Venture Capital, Software, Mobile Telecommunications, Interactive Marketing, Widgets & Mashups, Internet/Mobile Payment Processing, Background Search firms and others. Dow Jones & Company is a News Corporation company (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Business and Relationship Intelligence, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S.
Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence provides leading customer intelligence solutions that enable organizations to identify and connect to the best business opportunities. The combination of next generation technology with actionable information powers the performance of sales and research professionals plus media organizations. Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence’s award-winning solutions include the most up to date and accurate global intelligence on millions of companies, the executives that manage them and the relationships that link them.
Integrating these tools and content behind your firewall - connecting vital internal and external customer information in context for salespeople - provides a single, complete view of a customer further increasing your effectiveness. -- Source - (PRZOOM - LINK)
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