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Google public alerts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/google-public-alerts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/publicalerts/ Google is now advertising public service crisis and disaster alerts.
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International Women’s Day: 8th March
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/international-womens-day-8th-march/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 This year’s UN International Women’s Day focuses on ending violence against women. The song One Woman is released today to help laucnh the campaign. Hear it here: http://song.unwomen.
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Bloomberg: UK, credit ratings and CDS
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/03/bloomberg-uk-credit-ratings-and-cds/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2013 Visualizing the U.K.’s CDS Following Fitch Downgrade The U.K.’s AAA credit rating was reduced by Fitch on April 19.
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Bloomberg: Macroeconomic data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/22/bloomberg-macroeconomic-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2013 The U.K. economy grew 0.3 percent in the first quarter, avoiding a triple dip recession. Bloomberg functions show much of the recovery comes from the services industry.
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Same-sex marriage: France
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/24/same-sex-marriage-france/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2013 On-going discussion of same-sex marriage in the UK parliament and in France Read the full text of the relevant French law and details of the process in parliament from...
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Bloomberg: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance/Corporate Social Reponsibility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/17/bloomberg-environmental-social-and-corporate-governancecorporate-social-reponsibility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2013 ESG (or CSR) has been topical over the last five years.
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Bloomberg: carbon offsets and environmental issues
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/24/bloomberg-carbon-offsets-and-environmental-issues/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2013 Carbon markets remain under pressure with the collapse of United Nations climate change talks last week.
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World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/17/worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2012 http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-executive-summary.
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American presidency and social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/american-presidency-and-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012 http://techpresident.com/news/23104/help-digital-infrastructure-obama-wins-re-election TechPresident has a good review of the role of social media in the election.
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Mapping Digital Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/mapping-digital-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012 The Center for International Media Assistance in partnership with the Open Society Foundations, announced the publication of an interactive map The project examines the global...