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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” ” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California. .”

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When we do something that creates entry level jobs in quantity, we reach out to social enterprise partners who specialize in job creation and training. Our first partner in this work was Digital Divide Data, an organization that has an outstanding training program in the area of data entry and outsourcing.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. The organization promotes ASEAN awareness through language training, mass media, and youth exchange activities (such as volunteer programs and youth camps).

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. He will be bringing equipment and provide skills training to the first Community Access television station in Ghana.

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

At AnnieCannons, an anti-human trafficking organization, they transform survivors of human trafficking into software professionals through a holistic program that trains and equips survivors to independently support themselves and their families. This image is from a trafficking awareness session. We stay focused on the individual.

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

Have Fun - Do Good

Pearl has profiled 9 women in 9 countries: Cambodia: Somaly Mam, a former sex worker who founded Acting for Women in Distressing Situations , an organization that rescues sex workers in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and gives them job training.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

We lecture, and we're also trainers with the US Attorney's Office, so we've given trainings to police on how to identify victims of trafficking. One of the ideas that they came up with, which they started years ago with the Population Community Development Association of Thailand, was to have village banks.