glocal

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Hu used the word "glocal" to describe business strategies combining "global vision with local strategy."

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  • This device will soon be powered with apps that will light up the lights of many houses, just like that micro-banking [equity banking] in Kenya, and to many other such initiatives that will solve many local, glocal and global problems instantaneously. —  Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds
  • Raleigh Peeps, we are meeting tonight to chat about the church, mission, and glocal poverty @ Boylan Brewpub 7PM. johnchandler just told me that Cold War Kids & Explosions in The Sky are doing free gigs in Austin this week. —  Simply Missional
  • Because of this reality and the great need to contextualize ministry strategy, he urges a "glocal" view. —  Notes from the Trail
  • With international students, local ethnic populations, business associations and more, even the most sleepy Southern town may be more glocal than we realize. —  Notes from the Trail
  • We've negotiated, we've demanded, we've blockaded, we've gone global, we've tried being glocal. —  Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org
 

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