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Today is World Habitat Day. Last week I wrote a post about Habitat’s international efforts here.  Habitat for Humanity is also raising awareness of the need for improved shelter and highlighting Habitat’s priority in the United States, neighborhood revitalization. This theme echos the United Nations’ chosen theme for 2010 for events in the host city [...]

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Monday, October 4th is of World Habitat Day sponsored by Habitat for Humanity.
Habitat’s international World Habitat Day efforts will focus on the link between housing and health. One way that you can learn more about this is through the 2011 Shelter Report, which focuses on the need for more research on the connections between healthy [...]

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Yesterday I wrote about the Habitat for Humanity build that I volunteered for a couple of weeks ago. I’m a big fan of Habitat. Our crew had a great time. We took a walk at lunch to see what else was going on up and down the street. It was quite a sight. There were [...]

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My garage door opener broke. It reminded me of an earlier blog post I wrote about how neighborhoods shape social interaction and consequently social media. Without my door opener or my son, (who is away at college, that I previously forced to open the door for me, and mercilessly called him Stanley after the brand [...]

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In his March 15 post The Neighborhood Feel, Chris Brogan sketches a brief history of the rise of mass communications and describes the resulting “disconnect between businesses needing to reach potential customers and any chance of personalization and localization.”
He concludes by asking, “Do we want that neighborhood feel back?”
The answer is yes, we do.
The real [...]

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