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Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions
Despite years of neglect, I think we're on track for a serious website redesign this year. We have a basic mockup, and a plan, and have even engaged an experienced designer as a "coach". Member Josh Miller has kindly agreed to push this forward. I plan to be doing most of the actual implementation work. Josh's first-round mockup is below. Our basic plan is in a google doc which you can comment on .
Warmshowers.org | Hospitality for touring cyclists
Nomads Connected
Enter your travel plans, change them at any time and make them accessible for selected friends and family members – or display your route in real-time in your WordPress blog.
Global Greeter Network: Home
Greeters are volunteers that love their city so much they volunteer to show their city to visitors. Not as a guide, but more like a newly met friend! Greeters will show special places that mean something in their lives. They would also show things visitors specifically ask for such as parks, shopping, architecture or a less wellknown neighborhood. Greeters are not professional guides, that is why Greeters (for example) do not enter a museum with their guest(s), that is up to the professionals.
De naam Bookcrossing en het logo zijn ©Bookcrossing.com. We zijn enthousiaste deelnemers aan die site en hebben het logo hier ter promotie neergezet. We zijn niet van plan er iets mee te gaan verdienen. -o-o- Name and logo are ©Bookcrossing.com. We are enthusiastic participants in that site and have used the logo here to promote the original site. We do not intend to make a profit out of its use.
BookCrossing in Nederland
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Girls Rock Camp is one of the awesome, replicable ideas we’ve profiled. I can’t wait until Hattie performs with them someday. (Photo via Flickr user emilyaugust) In the beginning of November I gave birth to my daughter Hattie. For the past three months, I’ve been knee deep in miniature clothing, parenting blogs, and really, really ...
World Footprints
One of our favorite events – the National Medal of Arts & National Humanities Medal award ceremony at the White House. Celebrities in attendance: Al Pacino, Sarah Jessica Parker and John Lithgow. World Footprints met the First Lady and the Nickelodeon iCarly cast at a special screening of " iMeet the First Lady ". This special episode showcases Nickelodeon and the White House joining forces to support military families.
Center for Responsible Travel : Formerly CESD
Responsible Tourism Tanzania is a new initiative that started at the International Travelers Philanthropy Conference that was held in Arusha in 2008. The idea for this organization is to set the standards and accredit tourism enterprises for an ecotourism or responsible approach. Since the conference, the idea of Responsible Tourism Tanzania has steadily grown and recently it launched a new website. September 23rd: CREST travelled to Nicaragua with WSPA for a forum on Sustainable Tourism and Animal Welfare at the Universidad de Ciencias Comerciales TravelTalk Radio interviewed Martha Honey about CREST's Traveler's Philanthropy and the 3rd International Conference on Traveler's Philanthropy!
Help Exchange: free volunteer work exchange abroad Australia New Zealand Canada Europe
This website is fantastic by enabling hosts and helpers to match up! It offers fantastic opportunities to both. Thank you so much. - Mike, United Kingdom I think this website is an excellent idea, wish it had been available when I was many years younger but I still hope to benefit from all the contacts, etc. herein - Amanda, France This website is wonderful.
Rising Voices, an outreach initiative of Global Voices , aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the global conversation by providing resources and funding to local groups reaching out to underrepresented communities. Introduction Founded in 2004 by a group of pioneering international bloggers, Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore.
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