webfind wednesday: State of the Internet 2011

Found this link today from Presurfer. Not totally related to traveling but very informative nonetheless. Curious.

http://www.onlineschools.org/state-of-the-internet/soti.html

The Internet is a strange, huge beast. It is getting bigger, faster and more mobile each day. Ferocious social networks fight each other to be on top and gain more of our attention and personal information. An entire economy is generated from our browsing habits.This is the face of the Internet now.

 


Created by: Online Schools

webfind wednesday: UN Volunteers

I discovered this website in 2007. I wanted to do something more with my idle time but don’t want to follow a particular schedule to volunteer.  Thus, discovering onlinevolunteering.org was a blessing for me. I was once an English-Filipino translator for a website designed for community-based entrepreneurs. The real challenge was to find the right Filipino translation for accounting and business terms! It was fun and I learned a lot from it.

webfind wednesdays: SITMo

http://sitmo.org/

 

The most wonderful travel adventures I experienced where with SITMo. Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement is a non-profit organization composed of federations and networks of people’s organizations, individuals, business and social institutions implementing social development in their region. One of their projects is organizing eco-tours based on the rice planting cycle of Ifugao.

webfind wednesdays: DIY Beijing

I know today is Thursday but I am just really excited to share how our DIY Beijing tour was made possible :)

Because of the language barrier, traveling around Beijing could be confusing and exhausting especially if you are only armed with a map. Luckily I chanced upon two very informative websites that made our 4-day DIY Beijing itinerary doable.