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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

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This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

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One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

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Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. The Typo Police Page. Note the blink tag! I signed up.

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Reflections on the Meyer Memorial Trust Workshop

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I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. The director of the Center has been there since 1977 and is originally from Cambodia. I should have thought more about using my laptop and the projector. What worked? What didn't? Observations.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.