Interview with Nunni’s belly

The original plan was to interview Nunni on her daily work routine and her role as betterplace Super Woman in charge of organisations and all things that need to be organized. At the agreed time, however, instead of Nunni a huge belly shows up. Which already has gained itself an infamous reputation for its considerable [...]
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Tags: belly, corporate identity, work routine

“Democracy is an export article”

betterplace at the ceremony of the CARE Partnership Award and the CARE Millenium Award that go to the Tuareg leader Mano Aghali from Niger and the Premier Minister of Luxemburg Jean-Claude Juncker. A few impressions. “It’s a little lame, fair enough, but at least it’s moving forward.” Development aid or, rather, development collaboration between equal [...]
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Tags: award, care, democracy

Opportunity makes the thief

Time and again I realize how “the idea betterplace” comes across as quite peculiar. Wether it’s on one of the numerous events being held on behalf of the Project Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, like for instance when John Wood presented his great project Room to Read to a broader public here in Berlin. Or wether [...]
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Birgit in Beijing

I just did an e-mail interview with Birgit Eberlein, who is currently building up a local group for betterplace in Beijing Q: How did you find out about betterplace and what are you doing in Beijing? Birgit: Last summer I met Joana in a Café in Berlin. She told me about betterplace and I immediatly [...]
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Not just a pretty face…

Last night we had the last big deployment of betterplace.org before we go live in a few weeks time. Another milestone has been reached! You can now start networking on betterplace by connecting to friends, and companies can connect to the projects that they wish to sponsor. At first glance you will notice the new [...]
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Tags: deployment, design, features, logo, screendesign

Goodbye Janine

It’s a terrible loss. But we had to let her go. Janine went back to South Africa. It is hard to understand why she wouldn’t want to experience the infamous Berlin winter. She could have proved how hard she really was! We could have continued to go to the Thai during lunch breaks and smoke [...]
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betterplace junior

  On Friday we convened the first betterplace junior meeting in our offices. My own children, Lilian (14) and Vico (12), had been involved in the design of the platform right from the beginning – we had first started to look at local initiatives while we as a family had been travelling around the world. [...]
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