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3 cities get paperless postal service | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:28:03 -0700

San Francisco, Newark and New York sign on to Zumbox to provide paperless municipal mail.

Making New York City More Sustainable by Promoting Electronic Mailings | The Paperless Postal System

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:08:55 -0700

From the page: "City agencies conduct countless mailings every year encompassing everything from water bills to changes in recycling guidelines. Starting today, the City will begin sending mailings through a pilot program with Zumbox, a secure electronic mailbox company that creates individual accounts assigned to a street address."

Online services let cities bypass the mailbox

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:58:07 -0700

Last week, the city of San Francisco sent its first letter to residents using Zumbox, a secure e-mail service that allows senders to contact people online using their street address, which regular e-mail doesn't do.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/27/BU0919SO7P.DTL#ixzz0SX0SG0Qx

SUNfiltered : Fresh culture daily. & Blog Archive & Coastal cities trying out paperless communication with residents

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:57:50 -0700

From the page: "It turns out that local governments are providing one method: yesterday, the company announced that San Francisco and Newark, NJ, are adopting Zumbox for communication with residents."

Triple Pundit

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:55:33 -0700

From the page: "The Zumbox platform represents a one-of-a-kind communications channel for municipal governments. For the first time, mayors can send secure, electronic correspondence (paperless mail) to their residents using delivery criteria such as neighborhoods, ZIP codes, entire cities, or a specific list of street addresses."

Zumbox

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:17:23 -0700

Zumbox is the first paperless postal system. It is an entirely new communications medium. Paperless mail is any electronic correspondence that is sent using a street address or geographic are as the criteria for delivery. Welcome to Mail 2.0.

Paperless Please

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:13:52 -0700

Paperless Please is the campaign for paperless mail. It is the campaign for a new choice in how we send, receive, and access mail that would otherwise be delivered as paper. By joining Paperless Please, you are voting with your address. You are voting to reduce the waste of paper mail. You are voting for change.

Civet coffee: Good to the last dropping | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:09:17 -0700

Asian palm civets are cat-sized, arboreal mammals found in southern India, Sri Lanka, southeast Asia and southern China.

Thoughts on the Social Media Job Search | Max Gladwell

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:16:42 -0700

Certainly job searching is potentially easier. At the touch of a button on the larger jobsites, such as on Monster, Dice or Simplyhired, I can now find 3,778 jobs that I'm perfect for and send over my CV in a matter of seconds. But suddenly, ease-of-use has created a flood of applications that devalue each interaction; making job searching easier, but finding a job more difficult

The Twittervore's Dilemma @greenUPGRADER

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:47:06 -0700

From the page: "A little while back, fellow blogger @maxgladwell (with the help of @sheagunther and @nowsourcing) came up with #ecomonday. "