Tech Soup Blog

JANUARY 29, 2009

Reaching out to youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan, DOTCOM. Global Voices blogged yesterday about a project funded by the State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, DOTCOM , and its recent progress. …Will explore youth issues through the lens of media, ultimately creating their own documentaries, digital stories, short films, public service announcements, and other media for distribution internationally.

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Tech Soup Blog

JANUARY 29, 2009

Kevin examines the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs' use of new media to empower youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan. In case you missed it, here's what we've had to say over the past week. From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Jim shows off a few more green gadgets from CES 2009. Elliot offers some ideas on how to respond to criticism and inaccurate information about your nonprofit. Robert warns of the Downadup worm, a potentially devastating new piece of malware.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 3, 2009

According to the Genocide Prevention Month's site , the genocide in Bosnia began April 6, in Rwanda April 7, in Cambodia April 17, in Darfur April 19, in Armenia April 24, and the Holocast began April 21st. Did you know that six genocides began in the month of April?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2012

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place.

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Tech Soup Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If Are you sitting down?! We've got some exciting news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

The idea for the project came from Nigerian blogger Ore Somolu who is presently working with a group of young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia on the Young Caucacus Women Project. 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. I saw this while I was busy mentoring for the Young Caucasus Women Blogging Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2006

I'm mentor for a blog project for young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia entitled YoungCaucasusWomen. Here's the project description from the site: Recruited from current FLEX. students, the young women will be trained in personal citizen journalism to be published on a weblog (a WWW publishing tool, available for public consumption.) The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic. They may post on other topics throughout the week as well.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

The project, Young Caucasus Women, is a group blog for young women from the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). I met Katy Pearce via the Global s and I'm going to participate in her blog mentoring project and you can too! Here's the description: Interested in developing the worldwide blogosphere? Like working with young people? We are looking for bloggers from around the world to be a blogging mentor for 1 week sometime in February, March, April or May 2006.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

During the week the young women in the program from Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia wrote their own posts answering the question, we commented on their posts and they commented on each other's posts. This week Beth Kanter and I finished our week being mentors for the Young Caucasus Women Project. Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” Here is Beth's post and here is mine.

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DECEMBER 26, 2005

They are looking for bloggers from around the world to be blogging mentors for 1 week as part of the Young Caucasus Women project, a group blog for young women from the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). Beth Kanter posted information about an interesting youth mentoring opportunity on the www.netsquared.org blog recently.

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Rebooting Charity

DECEMBER 21, 2006

You can milk a cow destined for Kenya, pat a sheep needed by a community in Senegal, and even sit in a toilet latrine, required to improve hygiene facilities in a school in real-world Armenia.

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