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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Photo by Be Chandra. Training Design'

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Meaningful Networked Action in the Cyclone Aftermath

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by LaurieLou. If you are thinking you want to volunteer your time, Natalie Jesionka has a post on Our World titled " Responding to Burma Crisis " that includes a list of opportunities to travel to the Burmese border and volunteer your time and energy to the underground grassroots NGO activity. Women's League of Burma.

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BlogHers Act and Other Ways to Help Myanmar Cyclone Victims

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Jacques de Goldfiem Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar last weekend devastating five regions. The photos, videos, and blog reports are giving us vivid citizen accounts. The Burma: It Can't Wait Campaign launched not too long ago by the U.S. Campaign for Burma. Hundreds of thousands are now homeless.

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Why is Sopheap Wearing a Red T-Shirt?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Tharum , found on his Facebook Profile. I spotted this photo in Tharum's Facebook photos the title is "Quiet Vigil Outside Burma Embassy in Phnom Penh." " Mean Lux has a set on Flickr here and you can see a photo of his red t-shirt. There's a photo group in flickr too.

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Using SlideShare for Good: Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The strategy is use positive photos. Other examples of using SlideShare for disaster relief or donations: Burma Cyclone Relief Effort It comes from the Web Strategist Blog, Jeremiah Owyang. Here's the original post ). View | Upload your own.

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Four Steps to Ease You Into Social Web Activism

Have Fun - Do Good

Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth. You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool.

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You can read more about the many faces of the Martus user community and the impact that Martus has had on human rights groups , from Africa to Burma to Guatemala. Photo credits: Rom Srinivasan and Patrick Ball. I invite you to check back on our website for ongoing updates about our work.

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