Peg West: Our reader panel is a special Muskegon-area sounding board
The brainchild of our community engagement specialist, Paula Holmes-Greeley, this panel of citizens agrees to be a sounding board for the issues of our day, and to react quickly when necessary to whatever may crop up. They also are asked to make a …
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Mark Tomasik: iPad app offers best of Treasure Coast local news
Real-time storytelling in nontraditional ways, especially utilizing social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook and Storify. • Constructive engagement between the community and the newsroom so that reader feedback and involvement are encouraged.
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Better Recruitment Through Philanthropy
Senior Manager of Community Engagement Atlanta McIlwraith reports positive proof that Timberland's community service and social responsibility activities help with recruitment. Timberland administers an Employee Global Survey every two years and the …
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Norm Fruchter |
Norm Fruchter works on policy and special projects for the Institute's Community Organizing and Engagement division, which he previously directed. He recently completed the film PARENT POWER, Education Organizing in New York City, 1995-2010. Before …
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Two More Child Predators Identified by Social Media
comments: 1. The Department if Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested two more adults featured in child rape videos. Photos of both of the suspects were handed over to social media outlets this week, and both people were arrested promptly.
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Greyson returns to Congress
the president has indicated he might be willing to cut medicare and also willing to make an adjustment to calculations used with social security . … law. for instance, they could institute large parts of the cap and trade bill which passed the house …
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Hate speech: 'MIM MLA Owaisi will surrender before law'
Social activist Shabnam Hashmi has also lodged a complaint at Parliament Street police station in New Delhi against the MIM leader for allegedly making derogatory remarks about a particular community. Hate speech: `MIM MLA Owaisi will surrender before …
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What Happens When Acts Of Kindness Go Social
They align with the call from Frank Eliason and others for us to consciously use our social media presence to make positive contributions to the world, via the Positively Social campaign. But such examples also point toward the potential for action and …
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Christmas in 'Families Helping Families'
Youth from the U.S and Mexico work together to nail down plywood on the roof of one of the houses that will be finished for a fortunate family within the next few months. Families from Cedar City, Salt Lake City and Phoenix spent their Christmas …
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Teaching at youth prisons has limitations
The Sunday article “ 'Somebody is going to get killed,' ” about the Ohio Department of Youth Services, repeats a slur about teachers working in juvenile prisons. Consider the difficulties in engaging “students” who have not attended school, often for a …
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Alagiri furious over Karuna's succession plan
Alagiri recalled that his father himself had said "DMK is not a Sankara Mutt". Addressing party workers yesterday, Karunanidhi gave the clearest ever hint, saying "I will work for the cause … The Madurai strongman, who is two years elder to Stalin …
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