The BetterWorld Voice — March/April 2008 Issue

Volunteering and Our Partnership with
The Nature Conservancy

Over the past couple of years, we have adopted a section of the George Washington Memorial Parkway just outside of Washington, DC and have been clearing invasive species on a regular basis to keep the forest along the Parkway healthy. In partnership with The Nature Conservancy what began as an insurmountable task, turning around non-native growth over acres and acres of beautiful, urban old-growth forestland is now showing great signs of progress.

The George Washington Memorial Parkway stands as a memorial to George Washington. It connects historic sites from Washington's home at Mt. Vernon, past the nation's capital, to the Great Falls of the Potomac, where Washington demonstrated his skill as an engineer. Along the way, visitors to this historic roadway can explore our Nation's history, from George Washington to World War II and beyond. These places are all linked by this planned and landscaped road, the first section of which was completed in 1932 to commemorate the bicentennial of George Washington's birth.

Upon our last trip into the woods to continue the clearing, we really started to see the fruits of our labors as native species and trees like boxwoods now beginning to flourish in the areas where we have been working — a great site to see and proof as to how we can each have an impact in our own communities and how it can all really add up when you look at the thousands and thousands of similar projects being conducted nationwide and worldwide by The Conservancy, in addition to other organizations such as the Sierra Club and locally in DC like the Potomac Conservancy.

Our volunteer efforts, which included in 2007 work with other organizations such as Points of Light, Food and Friends and Habitat for Humanity remain at the core of what we strive to achieve at BetterWorld — so many organizations have similar programs in place and the collective impact on the environment and society is staggering. Please contact us if you would like more information on any of these organizations or if you would like to start a similar program within your own organization. Just send an email to wecare@betterworldtelecom.com and we will be in touch to help.

 

Product Highlight: BetterWorld Web Conferencing

Reduce your organization's carbon footprint while improving corporate communications: Reducing travel reduces carbon emissions. Less carbon emissions mean less damage to the environment. But, how do you conduct day to day business and reduce travel? One solution is BetterWorld's integrated Web Conferencing suite, which can create a virtual meeting with the impact of being there in person.

If you're like many people who cite ease of use as the biggest reason for not using web conferencing, you'll like the simplicity of Web Visuals. It eliminates the intimidation factor by presenting you and your participants a familiar interface. Whether you are reviewing contracts, demonstrating software or editing project plans, it is easy to involve everyone in the meeting and truly collaborate.

Highlights of BetterWorld Web Visuals Web Conferencing include:

Unified Solution

• Audio, web and video portions of the meeting all launch automatically with a single click for meeting entry.

Quick & Easy to Use

• Desktop integration lets you launch a meeting with no additional logins... less than 20 secords to start a meeting.

Cost-effective

• Significantly reduces travel and on-premise expenses.
• Competitive pricing models are more flexible than most services.

Complete and Reliable

• High-performance: Our network is adaptable enough to balance and shift resources during peak loads in order to support bandwidth-intensive services such as mulitipoint video.
• Scalability: As your usage grows, our network can easily scale to meet demand without service interruptions both in ASP and on-premises environments.

For more information and how to get started, send an email to wecare@betterworldtelecom.com or call us at 866.567.2273 x905.

Customer Highlight: Trillium Asset Management

BetterWorld is proud to welcome as a customer this past month, Boston-based Trillium Asset Management, a true pioneer in the field of socially responsible investing.

For 25 years, Trillium Asset Management Corporation has been the leader in the social investment field. They are a majority employee- and women-owned firm, guided by a belief that investing can return a profit to the investor, while also promoting social and economic justice.

Trillium manages investment portfolios for a broad array of individuals and institutions. They manage equity, balanced, and fixed income accounts, with a client-driven, highly personalized management style. Client needs and objectives are foremost in the TRILLIUM ASSET MANAGEMENT® approach to investing.

They have four offices and a professional staff that carry on the mission begun in 1982: To help clients meet their financial goals and have a positive impact on society.

For more information, please visit them at http://trilliuminvest.com/

Upcoming Conferences:
Where You Will See BetterWorld in April

It's that time of year and this season's conferences are lining up to be real powerhouses, here's a sample of conferences where we will be attending and exhibiting in April:

Seattle Green Festival
April 12-13, 2008
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
Seattle, Washington

EPCON 2008 - Environmental Procurement Conference
April 14, 2008
Sheraton at Woodbridge Center
Iselin, New Jersey

Grants Management Systems Annual Conference
April 20-25, 2008
Hyatt Regency
Buffalo, New York

Go Green Expo
April 26-27, 2008
The Hilton New York
New York, New York