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NGO/NPO Meme - tagged by Nancy White

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been behind on my reading and blogging due to craziness at work and issues that needed to be attended to with children (don't ask). I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 So here's a little Saturday night thinking out of the box.

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Sangonet Announces Finalists to 2006 NGO Website Awards

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sangonet , an organization that focuses on capacity building with ICT for NGOS in South Africa, recently announced the finalists for the NGO Web awards. After the explanation of th judging process, I found this note: Low Budget Options and Freebies For NGOs who. NGOs website, SANGONeT suggests that you take a look at creating a.

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Blog Roundup: Lessons from Kony 2012 Video Campaign

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Africans are talking about the campaign – and you can see a roundup of posts from African bloggers responding to the hype. The issue is complex. If you want the facts about dates, see this post by African blogger, journalist, and researcher, Angelo Op-Aiya Izama from Uganda. Is that responsible social change?

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm so grateful that other bloggers and colleagues like Rik Riel do such excellent coverage of what's happening in Second Life. According to my colleague Rik Riel, this campaign is sponsored by the Spanish NGO Mensajeros de la Paz , which is leveraging various new media to draw attention to their work.

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Be a Blogger for Human Rights

Have Fun - Do Good

While searching for examples of other women using blogs to document human rights abuses, I found Human Rights Watch , an NGO that investigates and exposes human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. They provide RSS feeds about human rights issues classified by region, country and theme, and e-mail newsletters in several languages.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. ” It also brings up issues about the r ole of social media and a connected society for delicate diplomacy.

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Cambodia Bloggers Summit: Social Media Role Play, Social Media Game, and Angkun - Seeds of the Future

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out. because u r the seeds of new generation of bloggers. It became clear that social media in Cambodia means "any media that can solve social issues." why do you give all of us the angkunh??? a great answer from john: ???because