The Radar: Street-Food Eating Tips, Traveling While Fat, Ten Great D.C. Restaurants

• While traveling, I strive to stick to the wise (and diarrhea-free) traveler's adage: "If you can't cook it or peel it, forget it!" and order my drinks without ice. Maybe there's a little more leeway than that; check out Laurel Miller's five tips to successfully eating street food here.

• Getting ready to travel this holiday season? Dreading having to sit next to an "oversized" passenger on a long-haul flight to Grandma's? Rob Goldstone--5'7" and 285 pounds--shows us the other side of the coin in "The Tricks and Trials of Traveling While Fat." He explains how he's adapted his traveling techniques (buying two seats, beseeching flight attendants for a seat-belt extender at the start of flights) and details some of the surprises he's encountered while traveling the world while fat: being told not to ride Vietnam's rickshaws, struggling to pass through a bus's turnstile en route to a Rio beach, and being playfully poked in the belly by curious kids in China who thought he resembled the Buddha.

• For those coming to D.C. for this Saturday's Jon Stewart Rally on the National Mall, you'll be sure to get hungry from all of your sanity restoring. Check out this list of ten great D.C. restaurants and put our D.C. City Guide to good use.

Photo of National Mall by Photo Phiend on Creative Commons.


Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/10/the-radar-streetfood-eating-ti.html

Get ‘Em While They’re Hot: New “Convio Connector” Helps Care2’s Nonprofit Partners Connect with Donors Faster

Today (Tuesday, Oct. 26th) at the Convio Summit in Baltimore I joined Chris Burley of Defenders of Wildlife in a session to unveil a new online tool that Care2 built to greatly benefit our nonprofit clients. It’s called the “Convio Connector,” and we built it using Convio’s API. The new Connector allows Care2’s database to communicate directly and automatically with the database of any organization that uses Convio’s online software platform. It's free for any of our clients using Convio.

Why is this valuable to nonprofits? It has to do with speed, avoiding headaches and -- most of all – letting you connect and engage with your new supporters ASAP.

We have successfully tested the new tool with Defenders, the terrific environmental protection organization that protects wolves and other wild species and their habitat. I’m proud to say that Defenders has relied on Care2 for many years to mobilize and recruit hundreds of thousands of new Care2 activists and supporters, from among our 14 million “do gooder” members. The many campaigns that we’ve run for Defenders have helped them win major advocacy victories while also substantially growing their base of grassroots donors.

Post originale: http://www.frogloop.com/care2blog/2010/10/26/get-em-while-theyre-hot-new-convio-connector-helps-care2s-no.html