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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

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In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. Curated Content. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content is king. Marcelo Iniarra pointed out that people have limited attention, but simple human experiences like this video of an interrupted skype interview with Robert Kelly from Korean caught people’s attention around the globe. It makes content creation more effective. Everyone loves a good story.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

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Tools such as Google Hangout and Skype are increasingly being used as cost effective video conferencing training tools. Offline storage and data management can take place, even when the user is not connected to the Internet. HTML5 is the latest version of HTML, which is accessible on all platforms, devices, and browsers.

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NTEN Webinar Reflections and Resources: The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation

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The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation. I was reflecting back to those days and I realized that part of my work included content curation, although at the time I didn’t call it that. I also taught many workshops where I included techniques on how to deal with information overload caused by using the Internet to get our work done.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

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Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. There are offline ways to do it. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. You shouldn't have a blog for the sake of having a blog because you'll have content. Every local news station showed up.

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App Recommendations from TechSoup Staff: Part Two

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Wes Holing, Web Content Developer. Skype - for instant messaging and also video calls. I like to have all my reading in this stripped down, ad-free, offline friendly format. Carlos Bergfeld, Product Content Manager. the apps that TechSoup folks like. I'm an Android guy and a photographer.

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Amanda Rose, Twestival Leader, Reflects on Twestival

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Amanda Rose at the London Twestival Photo was taken by @mikebutcher The Twestival combined online twitter fundraising with a groundswell of offline self organized events in 202 cities around the world on February 12th. The team was fantastic and we had regular Skype calls and emails discussing issues that came up.