Google Blog Review

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/hanging-out-for-jewish-arab-dialogue-in.html

Doron Avni writes for the official Google Blog where Google employees post about various topics in the Google industry.  Avni is a Policy Manager at Google Israel and has worked with Google since 2010.  He studied European law at University of Oxford in 1996 and received his MPA at Harvard University in 2006.  Before working at Google, he worked for The Second Authority for Television and Radio.

In this post, Avni writes about a new Google project that will promote peace and coexistence between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews. Google has partnered with Peres Center for Peace and during the next six months, they will be conducting a series of Google Hangouts among Israeli Arab and Israeli Jewish university students.  Students will be put into circles (a Google+ term for group of friends on their social network) with students in their same area of study, and with an equal number of Arabs and Jews.  The students will meet via Google hangouts and be presented with projects that they must undertake together.  They will eventually meet face to face to present their projects and discuss their experience.  Avni hopes the project "will help foster coexistence and understanding between Israeli Jews and Arabs and, in the future, build bridges between other communities."


In terms of Avni's blogging style, I very much enjoyed reading his post because it was concise but dense.  He is able to input a lot of powerful information into one post and still allow it to be a quick and easy read.  The Google Blog does a very good job overall at keeping their blog straight to the point.  There is also a perfect amount of sophistication and facts to establish credibility, while keeping the posts readable to the average person. I will be sure to add this blog to my bookmarks as a quick way to get updates on Google's innovations, or more specifically Avni's projects himself.