28 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Online Capitalism and NGOs

Have you ever wonder what a website needs to appear on the first positions on search engines? or maybe you’ve asked yourself, how to make your own site to be at the top of the lists? well, is not just you, behind every important website there are teams of people trying everyday to beat its competitors, for some of them it’s a war, companies set big budgets in order to appear on the first positions on Google.

There are many factors that will influence your position on search engines and that’s why SEO experts charge a lot of money. What about NGOs? they don’t have big budgets, so how do they get indexed on the first positions on organic searches? unfortunately, the reality is that they do not. Looking at the Gapyear niche, big companies are fighting everyday to get better ranks and positions on the web leaving NGOs with small or null budgets far far behind, sadly the strongest (economically speaking) will get better results. I think this is very unfair, and we want to do something about it. [...]

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28 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Where the hell is Matt?

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If you’re looking for some travel inspiration you must watch this video. Matt is an Australian who travels the world dancing while his girlfriend films his moves. The description doesn’t sound very exciting right? well have a look and enjoy but be careful you might want to pack and catch a plane right after!

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28 December 2009 ~ 5 Comments

“Home” a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Home is a breathtaking photographic journey around the planet, directed by the french photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. “HOME has an impact on anyone who sees it. It awakens in us the awareness that is needed to change the way we see the world. (HOME embraces the major ecological issues that confront us and shows how everything on our planet is interconnected.)”


Here’s the link to the HOME official youtube channel

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28 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The 20 best travel books of all time

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As i mentioned in a previous post recommending Wade Davis “Light at the edge of the world books are one very important factor to consider when I am traveling

I found this post on the Telegraph.co.uk website and is worth to share it. I love the fact that they mentioned The Journals” by Captain Cook as one of these 20 travel inspiring books, some of them i never heard of, i guess i’ll be visiting Amazon after i published this post.

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28 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Travel Photography Resources

Photography is the most serious of my hobbies, I find it incredibly rewarding in many aspects. When traveling I seldom take my camera off my neck. If travel photography is as important to you as it is to me, then I’m sure we share the feeling of trying to get the perfect picture every single time cause you know when you’re traveling you don’t get too many opportunities and I hate to go back home and notice that some of my “looking forward” pictures are just not very good. I have gather some very nice Travel photography sites with very useful Tips and Tutorials. Enjoy!

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28 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Book Recomendation

I enjoy reading a lot, specially when I’m traveling. The books I’m going to carry with me have to be carefully selected, the criteria is always the destination, some books though are universal, by that i mean, some books are just brilliant inspiration for any trip, journey or destination, this book is one of them. “Light at the edge of the world” by Wade Davis. He’s a very well known anthropologist, he’s done many documentaries for National Geographic, I must admit I’m his fan. Anthropology books usually are stories of the authors and the style is always a sort of “coffee chat” talk, very easy to read but mostly easy to enjoy.

Wade Davis gave a talk at the famous TED conference in Monterey California in 2003, enjoy this video and read his book!

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06 November 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Welcome to Gawana

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Welcome to Gawana’s blog. We want to transmit our ideas to you with the hope to be inspiring. We believe that Technology, creativity and collective thinking can create social change.

There are literaly hundreds of real volunteering projects around the world looking for your knowledge, creativity and expertise, Projects that need real comeeted volunteers.

Here in Gawana we have created a ver simple equation in which we support our projects:

Technology + Creativity + …

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