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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

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Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September). Ping him over at his blog.

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Blogging To Improve Cambodia's Environment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. She moved to Cambodia in April, 2000. How and why did you find yourself in Cambodia? My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Mlup Baitong???s

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Cambodia Bloggers Summit: Social Media Role Play, Social Media Game, and Angkun - Seeds of the Future

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The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. My group was assigned to "Social Media."

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Four Early Lessons Learned in the Quest to Improve Feedback Loops in Philanthropy

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Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. In another example, New Door Ventures —an organization that provides case management and job training services to at-risk youth—hears consistent feedback from the youth that they want more food.

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Interview with Lux Mean: Teaching Cambodians in Rural Areas To Blog

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He is currently training young people in Cambodia's provincial areas how to blog. Mean was only recently introduced to blogs and the organization got the idea of doing a blog projects from one of Cambodia's better known bloggers, Ex-King. The trainings were held in different Community Information Centers in the provinces.

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Reflectons from Video Blogging Session at Cambodian Bloggers Summit

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On Friday, I co-presented the video blogging presentation at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit with Virak , Cambodia's first Cambodian video blogger (I think). Upon my arrival in Cambodia and actually experiencing the how slow the Internet is, how long it takes to upload, and that the videos posted to hosting sites don't necessarily play here.

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America's Giving Challenge Days: Bloggers Campaign!

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My husband and I adopted two beautiful children, Harry and Sara, from Cambodia. But, also felt sad when thought of the many children in Cambodia who would not have the same opportunities as our children do. Sign up here. Why am I doing this? On our first trip we were overjoyed to bring our son, Harry, home. It's a route out of poverty.

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