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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September). Ping him over at his blog.

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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

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. My group was assigned to "Social Media."

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Reflectons from Video Blogging Session at Cambodian Bloggers Summit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I co-presented the video blogging presentation at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit with Virak , Cambodia's first Cambodian video blogger (I think). Upon my arrival in Cambodia and actually experiencing the how slow the Internet is, how long it takes to upload, and that the videos posted to hosting sites don't necessarily play here.

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Interview with Lux Mean: Teaching Cambodians in Rural Areas To Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He is currently training young people in Cambodia's provincial areas how to blog. Mean was only recently introduced to blogs and the organization got the idea of doing a blog projects from one of Cambodia's better known bloggers, Ex-King. The trainings were held in different Community Information Centers in the provinces.

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Khmer Open Source

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the description of the project purpose from the site: The KhmerOS project was born from our dream for the state of computer technology in Cambodia in three years. Here's the link to the draft of the master plan for implementing open source in Cambodia.

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Cyber Cambodian Session - Cambodian Bloggers Summit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is my first experience live blogging something in a different language! Many people in Phnom Penh know how to use the computers and the Internet, but in the rural areas many people do not. How many people can use Internet in Cambodia? Journalists can't use the Internet in the provinces and in the city.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love designing and delivering trainings on social media and the added challenge of working outside of the US. I do a quick review of my training materials with a "US Centric Lens." What does that mean? Finally, when you are delivering the training, you need improvisation skills. It always helps me improve practice.

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