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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. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The tough question that ran through my mind was: How can we as technologists in Silicon Valley help prevent this kind of atrocity? Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question.

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Four Steps to Ease You Into Social Web Activism

Have Fun - Do Good

On September 28th you could have uploaded a photo of yourself wearing a red shirt to Flickr to show your solidarity with the monks in Burma as part of Red Shirt Day for Burma/Birma/ Myanmar. You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool. Users will choose the 10 best questions.

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PBS Development Presentation (Draft)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I know this question has been asked before, but if you don't have a lot of resources to purchase subscriptions to services that give detailed audience size and monthly growth statistics and demographics, where can you find some summaries for free? I'm supporting Free Burma Day. No live real time blogging tomorrow.

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Fashion and Passion for Your Cause: Wear it on Your Blog or Profile!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

to support the monks in Burma. between causes and people, both create an interesting strategic question for organizations that seems like a fruitful place for future investigation: how do you get those people involved? Last month, I turned my blog pink in support of Breast Cancer and in September, I put on a red t-shirt.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. Be sure to check out slide 13 that answers the question, What Can We Measure for Web2.0?" Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits.

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