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APRIL 11, 2012

It was the power of people sharing the stories with one another that actually brought it to some sort of critical mass where mainstream media then took attention. It was much more important for people to be sharing the stories with each other for the traffic to blow up really, really fast." It continued on the same trajectory.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Naples, FL: Digital Storytelling Workshop. Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Story Time: Empowering People with Technology. Honolulu, HI: Extraordinary Machine: Public Access to Public Domain Workshop. Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmaker-Mozilla Western Kenya Network.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

Every month NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. Melbourne, Australia: “Purpose driven profit” workshop. Vancouver, Canada: Video for Nonprofits Workshop: The Essential Elements of Storytelling. Sunday, February 9.

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MAY 29, 2012

As I vision ahead, I see this being a situation where hundreds of thousands of young people want to do this, but we have to quantify a lot of things to make this a reality for folks. In May 2010, TIME magazine named Will to the TIME 100 World's Most Influential People. He was named the 2012 NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award recipient.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group. Share Tweet.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

But did you also know that TechSoup’s NetSquared project supports nonprofit technology events and workshops happening in 50 cities across the globe? Or if you’re in Kenya check out the computer training workshops in rural schools. So join your local group to get alerts about upcoming gatherings.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group. Full disclosure: The link to Stacey's book, Global Girlfriend, is linked to my Amazon Associates account. If you purchase something after clicking on the link, I receive a small percentage of the sale.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Story Time: Creating Technologies with Visually Impaired People. Honolulu, Hawaii: Free Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women (and Their Friends). Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmaker-Mozilla Western Kenya Network. Storymakers Events.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

She's also the wife of Kenya Masala , whose song, "Mango Delight," I use for the Big Vision Podcast's intro and outro. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DO com. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DO com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop. James Leventhal facilitated a workshop in Portland last month along with Adam Rozan of the Oakland Museum of California and Stephanie Weaver of Experienceology.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Every month NetSquared volunteers hold free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. Toronto, Ontario: Tech Connect Workshop. Orlando, Florida: Workshop: Must-Use Apps and Tools for Every Nonprofit. Cleveland, Ohio: Tech4Good Cleveland — Social Media Workshop.

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MARCH 31, 2014

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). Around Gender.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

More than 20 NetSquared-affiliated organizers will be at the conference (look for the people wearing NetSquared pins.) Cleveland, Ohio: Tech4Good Cleveland — Social Media Workshop. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Busia, Kenya: Teaching Mobile Apps Development to High School.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

As of January 25, there are 40,000 nonprofit members attending free tech networking events and workshops in 75 cities. and have a reason to hang out with other cool people! Yaoundé, Cameroon: Office 365 Workshop. Kisumu City, Kenya: Netsquared Safer Internet 2017: Be the Change; Unite for a Better Internet.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

That means Net2Local organizers are reaching as many people as NTEN’s NTC conference every quarter ! China, Cameroon, Uganda and Kenya. In the new year we’re planning on supporting organizers in holding unconferences and workshops in Burkina Faso, Australia, Canada, Guatemala, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

It was a natural choice for me, as an artist, to begin holding workshops for women and girls using creativity as a way for my own self expression and dreams to emerge. In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo.

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MAY 12, 2014

to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. One of the things TechSoup does well is to bring relevant tools and resources to the needs that people have on the ground. Dara Westling.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

NetSquared holds free or low-cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. Boston, Massachusetts: DataBasic Intro Workshop — Learn 3 New Tools for Finding Stories in Data. Busia, Kenya: Net2Kenya Joins Hour of Code 2015. Wednesday, December 9, 2015.

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JUNE 21, 2006

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. If you are inspired by the interview and live in the Bay Area, People's Grocery is launching its 2-acre farm in Sunol this weekend and they are looking for volunteers. Brahm Ahmadi: Sure.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

This remarkable cohort of 250 community builders are hosting monthly free workshops and networking events in more than 74 cities, and they're doing it entirely as volunteers. In fact, last year we had almost 13,000 workshop RSVPs. Vancouver, British Columbia: Better Data Visualization Using Excel: Hands-on Workshop.

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AUGUST 20, 2008

As we've heard, something like 18% of the people in the world live on less than $1 a day, and a much bigger percentage live on less than $2 a day. The reality is, actually, that these people who are living on less than $1 a day, for the vast majority of them, it's more like $1 per family, than it is $1 per person.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. She kindly live tweeted the workshop and took some photos.

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MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg is Founder and Executive Director of Akili Dada and based in Kenya. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A. and Kenya, where Akili Dada is based.

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JULY 27, 2011

If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. Show Notes I have two workshops coming up: August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and co-presenting The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop. Tweet Share.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. People write poems, and stand and recite them in public meetings. They have had arrested some very, very prominent people.

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JUNE 30, 2007

And also, we'll be here a little bit for the reception, so you can also come and talk to people one-on-one. And really, when I started, I thought that blogs were for kind of strange people in their basements who were typing about conspiracy theories and stuff like that. There are a lot of people who don't.

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JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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