September, 2014

Posts from September, 2014

Embracing the unexpected: connections that life throws your way

  September 24, 2014

A post about meeting Gandhi, Chaplin and wonderful ladies in day in my life in London. A typical Tuesday, except that I decided not to follow the script and opened up to the opportunities to make connections that life threw my way. Have you noticed that people smile back if you smile at them?

The GV Blog Challenge – Are you game?

  September 22, 2014

GVers love games – at least Lingua folks! – so here is a game to uncover our "secret" community blog. If you come across this blog, check this post out to see how to join and nominate other GVers for the challenge. Or at least click to see how a cat ended up illustrating this post!

Global Voices Aymara Turns Five!

  September 22, 2014

Members of the Global Voices Aymarata team met on Saturday, September 20 to plan for the rest of the year and send this message to all of the volunteers and readers in recognition of our 5th anniversary!

Redesigning the RisingVoices logo, hands?

  September 19, 2014

While we're willing to use a variant of the old logo (GV adinkra icon rising over the horizon like the sun) we also want to explore completely new directions to see if there is a simpler visual metaphor that would work better on it's own.

My Third Country as a GVer

  September 18, 2014

This month, nearly seven years after I moved from Morocco to the US, I've made another move, this time to Berlin, Germany. I'm once again living in an entirely new place, and seeing the world from an entirely new perspective.

First post! Welcome to the GV Community Blog!

  September 12, 2014

The Global Voices community is bigger than it's ever been, proving how important our mission is to people around the world. The challenge that comes with having a huge, wonderful community is finding spaces for us to share and communicate with each other that are fun and free without taking...