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A Free Agent at Davos!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Shawn Ahmed, Free Agent and founder of the Uncultured Project, has been invited to next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will meet with business leaders and heads of state. This year, Shawn’s video was selected from over 100 covering a wide range of topics and debates. A big congrats to Shawn!

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Tracking the Currion Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's more information about how and why it was created: NGO Manager was created by a small group of professionals working in the humanitarian sector in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2001. NMG is a small independent nonprofit association based near Geneva in Switzerland.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My career as a gopher mistress was very short-lived because a guy in Switzerland and something called mosaic came along. Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland. It was before the commercial web.

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Should we put our social media tools away and have a conversation?

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ll all be able to stay home, prevent climate change and just send our avatars to Switzerland. But by the time I arrived on Wednesday, there were already one million blog hits for ???Davos Davos 2007.??? At this rate, we???ll Has this view been changed by the pervasive Internet access?

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Steven Johnson Key Note at Serious Games Conference

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They were presenting in Davos, Switzerland. " In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Susan Seggerman, co-founder of Games for Change, introduced Stephen with a great story. The first panel on video games at Davos.

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An Interview With Facebook’s Libby Leffler: Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In that role, I had the exciting opportunity to staff the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2011 and 2012, which was a hugely eye-opening experience. In 2012, the themes of inequality and the “forgotten one billion” permeated nearly every discussion about the global community.

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