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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A new book, “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom,” by a young Belarus-born American scholar, Evgeny Morozov , has made the case most provocatively, describing instance after instance of strongmen finding ways to use new media to their advantage.

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Quick Hit: Five Great Links

Museum 2.0

Three intrepid blog managers are soliciting contributions from all over the world, and so far, there are posts from Belarus, Canada, Germany, Northern Ireland, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the US. It is the online counterpart to a conference of the same name that will be hosted this fall in St. Petersburg.

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

It is now a diverse international group with team members in Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and the U.S. When I asked Maxim Dubinin the inevitable sustainability question, he said that he worked as a techie for a Russian NGO for six years before starting his own company. Tech for good often knows no geopolitical boundaries.

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Empowering Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

This week the adult mentor blogger, Joitske Hulsebosch posted her answer to the question, "Who in the World Would you Really Like to Send an Email/Letter to, or to Read Your Blog Posts and Why?" Joitske wrote her answer to the question and now this week the young women are writing their posts.

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