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Blue Marble Energy (BME) is a Seattle-based company that generates biomaterial and bioenergy products from diverse waste biomass feedstocks. - Gideon Rosenblatt

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I make a distinction: when people ask if I'm a community organizer, I say no, I'm a community builder, perhaps even a community animator. The derivation of the word animator is animare, which is Latin for "make more lively, move to action." My work is essentially to help draw out and enliven the spirit of the people and of their place. - Gideon Rosenblatt

James P. Carse taught at New York University for thirty years as the Professor of the History and Literature of Religion, and Director of the Religious Studies Program. He retired from the University in 1996. He is a writer and an artist, and lives in New York City and Massachusetts. - Gideon Rosenblatt

What We’re Doing GrowthSpur was started by a group of experienced media, Internet, advertising and local-community pros to help local sites and entrepreneurs make money from the hard work they do in their communities. We work with you to increase revenue opportunities, to provide cutting-edge tools and to organize local networks of similar sites to provide you with additional advertising dollars and opportunities. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Boomi AtomSphereSM, the industry's first integration platform-as-a-service, connects any combination of cloud and on-premise applications without software or appliances. ISVs, integrators, and businesses alike benefit by connecting to the industry's largest application network using one seamless and self-service platform. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Does your organization have a Facebook "Page?" If so, it's time to turn your "fans" into activists. Grassroots Enterprise now offers Facebook Actions, a page enhancement that allows your supporters to take action without ever leaving Facebook — and to start doing this without them having to install an application. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Really cool tool for layering historical maps on top of Google Maps. Only available for 7 cities right now, but a very cool demonstration of what is possible when GIS and history collide. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Looking for a customer service number? ContactHelp.com will get you there FAST! - Gideon Rosenblatt

A brand new application - called Visible Vote [iTunes link], made for iPhone, Blackberry and Facebook - allows users to track their representatives' voting records, find out where they stand on the issues - and even send an e-mail to let them know exactly how they're doing. - Gideon Rosenblatt

A more powerful predictor of John's purchasing behavior is what his friends are doing and buying. For instance, people interested in wine tend to hang out with people who also are interested in wine. And if a company is pitching a product, its best prospects are the friends of its current consumers: a golden leads list. - Gideon Rosenblatt

With our quick online registration you are able to get started and use them right away. A great extension to the API is the two-way (bidirectional) messaging capability, which is available in over a 100 countries. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Plone's commenting story is getting a bit long in the tooth architecturally, features-wise, and UI-wise. There are a number of add-on products that attempt to address the latter two aspects, but none of them has so far been robust enough to become part of the core. The aim of this year's summer of code is very much to build something that will be part of the next major release of Plone. To do that, we'll need this year's GSoC project to deliver the brunt of the code required for the next generation Plone commenting. - Gideon Rosenblatt

We recently worked on a Drupal – Salesforce integration and built two new tools to make the integration easier – Drush integration and FeedAPI integration. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Today we are excited to announce an important step toward greater openness through Facebook Platform. For the first time, we're opening the core Facebook product experience -- the stream -- with the new Facebook Open Stream API. - Gideon Rosenblatt

A Google Analytics API has long been one of our most widely anticipated features. Today we're pleased to announce that the Google Analytics Data Export API beta is now publicly available to all Analytics users! - Gideon Rosenblatt

Use Add Letters to generate your own funny pictures based on the text you enter. The generated picture looks real and can be downloaded for your own enjoyment! - Gideon Rosenblatt

The deep symbiosis between bacteria and their human hosts is forcing scientists to ask: Are we organisms or living ecosystems? - Gideon Rosenblatt

A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people zoom in on what is happening closest to them, often without involving traditional journalists. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Placeblogger helps you find blogs depending on their location. With Placeblogger, you can quickly find and gather all the feeds from the places you are interested in. - Gideon Rosenblatt

No matter what's going on in your community, we've got it covered. Visit Patch to keep up with news, businesses, and events, check out photos and videos from around town, see what neighbors are up to, and get in on the conversation. - Gideon Rosenblatt

EveryBlock is a new way to keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city - Gideon Rosenblatt

t would take me 20 times as long to build my Twitter list as it would rebuild my Facebook friends list! That’s worth money. A lot of money. - Gideon Rosenblatt

I want to start this discussion by proposing a model for collaboration1 that links the various elements of collaboration, comment on the so-called “collaboration software” currently available, and make some tentative suggestions about IA and UX requirements for a real collaboration platform. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Today the web fully supports video. And that requires a new paradigm for how you think about video, how you document your work, and how you reach out to your constituents. This 7-part introduction is designed to get you thinking about online video, and to get you started on the path toward becoming a more web-centric organization. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Looking for free images? Here are thirty sites where you can find completely free images, available for use on your blog or web site. All of these sites offer royalty free images for your use (be sure to check each site for specific guidelines that they request you follow in order to use their images). - Gideon Rosenblatt

RPX handles the UI, authentication, and import of user profile and registration data for your website. - Gideon Rosenblatt

Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai (born April 1, 1940 in Ihithe village, Tetu division, Nyeri District of Kenya) is an environmental and political activist. In 2004 she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005. She is of Kikuyu ethnicity. - Gideon Rosenblatt

The $787.2 billion economic recovery bill — to be signed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday — dedicates $8 billion to high-speed rail, most of which was added in the final closed-door bargaining at the instigation of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. - Gideon Rosenblatt

To remedy this situation Ryan offers a new conceptual framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards called Governance as Leadership. Working in collaboration with noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needs of practitioners, Ryan redefines nonprofit governance and advocates for the enrichment of boards' work: more macro-governance in exchange for less micromanagement. - Gideon Rosenblatt