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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. We visited the Genocide Memorial (I’ve written a post about this for tomorrow) and visited with Women Leaders in the Rwanda Parliament.

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Need Answers: LinkedIn Has Them

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Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda. As an example, here’s a philosophical question for you, one that needs practical answers: To what extent can you engage with unethical partners without becoming tainted yourself? Komen for the Cure is a perfect example of this conundrum.

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Akilah Institute for Women: Social Media Workshop

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I shared my story and my experience in doing some online blog mentoring project with young women in Nigeria through my colleague Ore Somolu. I focused on showing them Twitter because there were so many examples of women leaders here in Rwanda and other countries in Africa using it for networking and professional development.

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Tips and Tools for Integrating Social Media Into Your Nonprofit Event Marketing Plan

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Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. Take the above example from charity:water for World Water Day.

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Thank You for the Best Birthday Ever!

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In a google document , some how they put the word out and 66 people signed up to blog and tweet about the birthday wish propelling its success! In reading all the blog posts, it is reminding me that relationships are not transactions and developed over time through a series of opportunities to work together.

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NpTech Tag Roundup: Election Day, NPTech Blog Chatter, and Tool Talk

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" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. Today I Cried blog announces that he will quit his job ! blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr."

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

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This is an adaptation of the article “ Nine Valuable Marketing Lessons From a Nonprofit – Charitywater.org ” written for the KISSmetrics blog by Chloe Gray. Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example. Here are a few images from the charity: water website that show how they employ social proof.

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