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I'm a mentor for the Young Caucasus Women's Project!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I hope you'll take some time to follow the project! The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic.

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Post-conflict Reconstruction: Disarmament, Reconciliation, and Blogging?

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Global Voices blogged yesterday about a project funded by the State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, DOTCOM , and its recent progress. Reaching out to youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan, DOTCOM. Hopefully this project will be a success and can be replicated in the many conflict/post-conflict zones in the world.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 23-29

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Kevin examines the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs' use of new media to empower youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Chris reports that TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative is now open to public libraries. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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Art, Social Change & Young Women Bloggers

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This week Beth Kanter and I finished our week being mentors for the Young Caucasus Women Project. 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. Here is Beth's post and here is mine.

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Mentoring Young Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

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). If you are interested, here is the original post from www.registan.net. All people don't grow the same way.

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Changing the World: TechSoup's Newest Global Partner

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In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If Nonprofits have gravitated from wanting training on the theme du jour from 10 years ago — project cycle management — to wanting training on social media and communications today. spanhidden'

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