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Opportunity to Mentor Nigerian Women - The Networking for Success Project

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Does your work and interests include how information and communication technology (ICTs) can be used to promote social change? Do you use or champion innovative uses of ICTs to work or network more efficiently? Do you work in an organization whose mission includes social or economic development? The Women???s

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks. But over the past two years, the program has expanded its work to include a focus on how grantees can improve the strength and use of these networks. . His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Africa Mentoring Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Joitske , Nancy White , and Britt Bravo , I read about The African Mentoring Project , run by Ore Somolu from Nigeria and who I know from the Global s projects. Nancy points out that the their wiki offers lots of ideas about how to set up a blog mentoring project and I agree. So, I immediately emailed Ore to volunteer as a mentor.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. But there isn't much about the demographics of who is using wikis, particularly their age. Global NpTech.

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Reflections from Global s London Summit

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Next year in Nigeria?). I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well. Jane Perrone, representing The Guardian, does a great job summarizing some of the conversation.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House , a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site. Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors.