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Quick-Start User Guide for Polycom Phones
Polycom phones are one of the most commonly-used communication tools for businesses, and it’s no surprise — they are versatile, reliable, and have a wide variety of options available. They’re a great option for use with hosted VoIP or SIP solutions in conference rooms, at employees' desks, and in call centers.... -
Happy New Year from BetterWorld Telecom
Excerpted from BetterWorld Insights Newsletter. Happy New Year! Delancey Street Donation On behalf of our customers, we're celebrating this holiday season with a donation to the Delancey Street Foundation. Now in it's 40th yr., Delancey is a community where people with nowhere to turn, turn their lives around. If every community had a Delancey Street it would truly be a BetterWorld.... -
Wisdom 2.0 Summit
Bring together tech geeks and people focused on living mindfully and what do you get? An amazing discussion about the future of communication technology and how we can use it to enhance our quality of life rather than have it lead to distracted, fragmented attention and social connections.Wisdom 2.0 Founder Soren Gordhamer, Roshi Joan Halifax, Kevin Rose, Eric Schiermeyer, Chris Sacca, and Bradley Horowitz... -
Telecom Recycling Information
So, we decided to dig a little deeper. We found that there are some telecom recyclers that accept telecom, but only certain kinds of telecom equipment. Some recyclers will not pick up old phones or ask that you pay for the pick-up. We found there are very few locations that offer full-service telecom recycling and include pickup.... -
TechSoup Global Contributors Summit
BetterWorld was honored to be a part of a convening of funders, corporate donors, social media experts, capacity-building organizations and the fulcrum of all of these amazing networks, TechSoup Global. The summit has focused on how BetterWorld and other participants can create greater impact through the extraordinary network of partners that comprise TechSoup’s global contributors.... -
TechSoup/BetterWorld Webinar: Is It Time To Upgrade Your Phone System?
In support of Telework Week (February 14-18), TechSoup Global graciously hosted a Live Webinar on February 3rd featuring BetterWorld’s President, Matthew Bauer: Is It Time To Upgrade Your Phone System? BetterWorld was given the opportunity on the webinar to help organizations better understand telecom services, systems and products and illuminate a key area that many have difficulty with today: “How to assess and evaluate your current phone systems and telecom services.... -
Certified B Corporations Take Center Stage, Launch National Ad Campaign
The team at BetterWorld is excited to be featured in the first national ad campaign about the community of Certified B Corporations that launched today. The ad campaign is the work of the nonprofit B Lab which certifies B Corporations as having met rigorous, transparent standards of social and environmental performance.... -
Groundwire Turns 15
We were fortunate to be present and help sponsor last week the 15th Anniversary of Groundwire’s founding, originally started as ONE/Northwest. Groundwire is a truly innovative organization with a storied history of impact and innovation for environmental non-profits in the Northwest and across the U.S. A who’s who of environmental leaders from Seattle were on hand to hear co-founders and enviro rockstars Dennis Hayes (President and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, founder of Earth Day) and Paul Brainerd (President of the Brainerd Foundation, co-founder of Islandwood, Social Venture Partners) lead off the festivities at the beautiful Colman Estate in West Seattle with some historical perspectives and their pioneering efforts in the environmental movement.... -
Sustainable Industries and Cameron Sinclair, Changing the Game
Over the past week, the BetterWorld team has been so fortunate to attend a number of events around the 2010 Sustainable Industries Economic Forums featuring Architecture for Humanity founder and CEO, Cameron Sinclair. Kudos to our partner and customer Sustainable Industries for continuing to lead the way in Sustainable media, with their newly redesigned website, magazine and pace-setting Economic Forum series, they are proving without a doubt that SI is a voice rising above the rest.... -
The Hub Bay Area: Where Change Agents Share Space and Ideas
…so the headline goes as two BetterWorld customers, Inc. Magazine/FastCompany and The Hub Bay Area come together in a recent online article on FastCompany.com. Starting in the spring of this year, we began planing a voice and data solution for the new Hub SoMa in the Chronicle Building at 5th and Mission.... -
Greenwise Sacramento features Van Jones
Greenwise Sacramento is the initiative for the entire Sacramento region (6 counties, 22 cities) to create the most sustainable region in California and in the country. An ambitious goal, and we support it FULLY! Sacramento Sustainability Forum, the largest grassroots non-profit focused on cross sector sustainability discussions, which we founded last August has been coordinated with Greenwise Sacramento to increase knowledge, enthusiasm, and participation in the initiative.... -
Center for Environmental Health – 2010 SF Business Times Green Business Champion
A big shout out to our customer the Center for Environmental Health on winning the 2010 San Francisco Business Times Green Business Champion award. CEH, based in Oakland, is a nonprofit environmental group that works directly with business leaders to promote safe products and business practices. Executive Director, Michael Green, and I met through shared activities with Full Circle Fund and recently reconnected at an AB32 Symposium put on by Bay Area Council and Business Council on Climate Change that was held at Wendel Rosen.... -
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Case Study: Oregon 211info H1N1 Hotline
This week we had the pleasure of presenting our case study with Oregon 211_info_ – how 211_info_ and the Oregon Department of Health quickly and efficiently created a call center in response to the H1N1 influenza epidemic, creating a model for other quick-response, temporary hotlines. In the fall of 2009, 211info and the Oregon Department of Human Services, working with BetterWorld Telecom, created a comprehensive hotline with a supervisor, a staff of 20 temporary information and referral agents, continually updated information, partners in nurse triage and clinic support offices, and administrative help from 211info.... -
Walk. Bike. Ride. – Seattle Mayoral Challenge
We are excited to be one of the organizations signed on to Seattle’s Mayoral Walk Bike Ride Challenge – right in tune with BetterWorld’s BetterWork framework: less car commuting, air travel, building space – the WBR Challenge puts alternatives to commuting as a top priority for the Seattle Metro Area – click here for more background on the program.... -
Rockin' Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute
Last week, we a very fortunate to attend a small reception held by Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist CEO, and Susan MacTavish in downtown San Francisco. Amory Lovins (Co Founder, Chief Scientist), Michael Potts (CEO), and Marty Pickett (Executive Director) of Rocky Mountain Institute were in attendance and Amory Lovins spoke at length about RMI’s current and past endeavors – everyone there was literally hanging on all his words, it is truly amazing what they have accomplished and the level of impact they are having…from the built environment to industry, oil and gas, and transportation, simply put, it seems as if we just left the engineering of how things tick to RMI, we’d probably have solved many of the critical problems facing our species, long ago.... -
Goodwill® International and BetterWorld Announce National Partnership
We are proud to announce an expansion of our work with Goodwill®, with the launch this week of the Goodwill BetterWorld Telecom National Partnership. BetterWorld will be featured within the Goodwill ecosystem and offer to all Goodwill members in the U.S. our discounted services, as well as a donation from all bills directed back at Goodwill International.... -
Making it a Habit at Habitat
The summer season is almost upon us, and for one family in Manning, SC, the new season will be like Christmas in June. Lavader Blackwell and her 11 year old son, CJ, are anxiously awaiting moving day when they finally get to move into their brand new home. For months, Lavader has been working right along side area volunteers, friends and family to achieve her dream.... -
Downtown with NBIS and BGI
Last Thursday, we were able to work with a couple of our Northwest partners on the same evening as we hosted the monthly NBIS EcoHour at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute’s downtown Seattle campus. Towards the end of the evening, it was clear that many in the room had affiliations with both organizations and a great discussion was had by all.... -
The Nonprofit Guide to Going Green, West Coast Launch
Late last week BetterWorld and the Tides Foundation sponsored the west coast launch of the Nonprofit Guide to Going Green – a two year project with over 20 authors, and edited/co-authored by yours truly alongside Ted Hart and Adrienne Capps. With more launch events on the way, including April in Berkeley and Toronto.... -
We CAN Lead, we did
This past week, BetterWorld joined over 150 companies, 250 CEOs and leaders to storm the Senate and White House – – all united in a common voice pushing for speedy passage of comprehensive climate legislation this year. Organized by the Clean Economy Network and CERES, entrepreneurs and leaders from all sectors and 37 states descended on D.... -
BetterWorld at N2Y4
We just finished an incredible two days at TechSoup’s Netsquared event N2Y4. The conference at Cisco in San Jose boasted numerous creative social entrepeneurs and visionaries who are using mobile technology to tackle the world’s most challenging problems. The main event was a competition for 50 thousand in grant prizes, between 14 amazing projects tackling issues from getting appropriate and timely info via SMS text on phones for rural farmers in Cameroon (AMISProject ) to empowering everyday citizens to report and fix the problems in their local community – like pot holes and graffiti (SeeClickFix).... -
BetterWorld Supports Sustainable Art Show at Soundry
BetterWorld was out at the Soundry this past Monday along with the Sustainable Business Network of Washington to support a showcase of local artist talent and foster sustainable collaboration. The innovative space of the Soundry, a former auto body shop now converted into a public coffee shop, art gallery, and shared studio space for local artists and musicians provided a rich backdrop for the opening of their “Green is Beautiful” Sustainable Artwork show.... -
BetterWork: A New Strategy for Work
Congratulations and a special shout out to our Action Learning Project (ALP) team from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Manan Shukla, Desiree Williams-Rajee, Stephen Yogi Rueff, and Libby Johnson McKee – for their efforts over the past 9 months to conceive and build the case for BetterWorld’s new corporate chapter, BetterWork: A New Strategy for Work.... -
Green Business Camp
Last Thursday, I attended a uniquely inspired event, the Green Business Camp. Orchestrated by Bill Baren and Patrick Dominguez, this was the first “unconference” of its kind. Besides an incredible opening address by Paul Hawken, one of the strongest leaders and thinkers in the sustainability movement, there were no other slated speakers.... -
Building it Green in the East Bay
Last week we were fortunate to meet with Sara and Jeff at Build It Green, a non-profit membership organization in Berkeley whose mission is to promote healthy, energy- and resource-efficient building practices in California. BIG provides education to builders, developers, and homeowners through extensive tools and resources, training, workshops, and events....
