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Interview with Rob Wu & Public Launch of CauseVox

Amy Sample Ward

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. Outside of that, non-profits need a culture shift an they need to take leadership. Interview: Rob Wu, CauseVox Founder.

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Mother's Day for Peace

Have Fun - Do Good

PeacePlayers International is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities in conflict and post-conflict areas. Two of the creators of Not Just a Number will be speaking at NetSquared's Net Tuesday in San Francisco tomorrow, May 8th. Beth Kanter posted about this a couple weeks ago.

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And Netsquared. re online, you blog and you have young children. I found a new balance since the children go to school and want to play with friends rather than with me. But my children still complain at times and tell me to close down the computer! I'm too shy to do an online poll. Communities of practice theory.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. So, now is the fun part.

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy. contributing to the 'Death of American Culture' here, but don't rely. Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. I decided to find out how to bridge the worlds of performance, cultural organizing and radical activism.

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