Visitors to www.new7wonders.com can now see a Live Voting Map on the homepage showing a randomised selection of recent voters and their choice of New7Wonders of Nature.
Announcing this new feature, Eamonn Fitzgerald, Head of Communications for New7Wonders says, "It is exciting to see on a nearly instant basis where…
Phoning and voting around the world
New national SMS and telephone voting options for the Finalists in the New7Wonders of Nature have been rolled out across three continents in the past two weeks. In Indonesia, you can vote for Komodo Island by SMS; in Jordan, you can text vote for the Dead Sea in English…
Festival time for many New7Wonders of Nature fans
Many New7Wonders of Nature fans around the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr this week, so to our friends in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, the UAE, Jordan, the Maldives, Palestine and many more countries, we send our best wishes.
For the shared good of mankind, New7Wonders works to highlight the common ground…
Portuguese and Italian added to www.new7wonders.com
As it spreads its messages of global memory, online empowerment and participative democracy, the New7Wonders of Nature website continues to embrace the world's major languages. Portuguese and Italian have just been added, which is good news not just for fans of of Iguazu Falls, the Amazon, Monte Cervino …
RLabs becomes first member of GVPP
Reconstructed Living Labs , a South African social enterprise that provides organisations and communities with communication and social media solutions, has become the first-ever member of the New7Wonders Global Voting Participation Programme .
RLabs is based in Cape Town, and its social enterprise aims include creating an environment…
300,000 on Facebook, 10,000 on Twitter
The New7Wonders of Nature campaign is today celebrating the reaching of two social media milestones: 300,000 fans on Facebook and 10,000 followers on Twitter. The achievement depicts how the campaign is utilizing the two services as information and engagement tools.
"Facebook and Twitter are so much more than just tools for…
Introducing the Global Voting Participation Programme
N7W today announces the soft launch of its Global Voting Participation Programme, designed to promote online empowerment around the world.
The powerful stimulus of participating in the New7Wonders of Nature is enabling previously offline communities to become part of the internet, thus opening up all the opportunities that the online…
Water: blue gold central to war, peace and prosperity
"Drought Spreads Pain From Florida to Arizona" is the headline in today's the New York Times. The story is frightening. "Climatologists say the great drought of 2011 is starting to look a lot like the one that hit the nation in the early to mid-1950s. That, too, dried a broad…
7 July message to the world from the Founder of New7Wonders, Bernard Weber
Zürich/Switzerland, 07.07.2011:
Dear Friends of New7Wonders,
As I sit here today at our New7Wonders headquarters by the lake in Zürich , we are celebrating two anniversaries dating back to 07.07.2007: The anniversary of the announcement of the start of our current New7Wonders of Nature campaign and, of course, the anniversary of…
“Wonder of Nature”—A song for the New7Wonders of Nature
Singer-songwriter Steven James is supporting the New7Wonders of Nature campaign with his newly-released "Wonder of Nature". Born in Mainz, Germany, Steven's musical roots extend deep in many traditions as his father and grandparents are of American and Jamaican origin. For more than 10 years now, he has been an active…