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Rwanda and Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. The first of the Rwandan Twitter “peeps” that I discovered was the President of Rwanda – Paul Kagame who is very active on Twitter.

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

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The site was established in 2004 on the 10th Anniversary of the genocide in partnership with the Rwanda Government, Kigali City Council, and Aegis Trust, a charity in the UK dedicated to the prediction, prevention, and ultimately elimination of genocide. You can find her story on the Generation Rwanda site).

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. We visited the Genocide Memorial (I’ve written a post about this for tomorrow) and visited with Women Leaders in the Rwanda Parliament.

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Jen Lemen Raises Over $3,000 in 24 Hours for Rwanda Project

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" So, when she emailed me about her plans to raise money to visit Rwanda for this project , I made a contribution and circulated her request. Jen Lemen will visit Grace (12) and Lillian (9), the daughters of Odette Umurerwa, a genocide survivor from Rwanda currently living in the United States. Here's a summary of her plan.

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Steve Bridger Interviews Camera Rwanda about NGOS and Flickr

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Pearl Children Care Center I discovered Camera Rwanda's beautiful photo stream when I wrote about it on blogher last January. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0 just posted an interview with her entitled " Camera Rwands: Storytelling using Flickr."

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Akilah Institute for Women: Social Media Workshop

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I focused on showing them Twitter because there were so many examples of women leaders here in Rwanda and other countries in Africa using it for networking and professional development. They were very excited to see the Minister of Health in Rwanda on Twitter. I had them view other profiles and share what struck them.

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Attention Data Nerds: Nonprofits Miss Out on the Power of LinkedIn: Learn How to Tap It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: By the time you are reading, I’ll probably have been on a jet plane for far longer than I want to be and maybe have landed in Rwanda. Once I recover from the journey, expect read reports about the Networked NGO in Rwanda and use of social media to support Women’s Rights organizations.

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