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Context Is Everything: Online Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. Cliff built one of Cisco’s first online communities and reminds us that project management will always be a key ingredient for successful communities. . *

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What We Can Accomplish Together Using WebEx

Tech Soup

Every month, TechSoup staff get together in San Francisco, Warsaw, and London to discuss projects and progress in one collaborative all-staff meeting. To facilitate these meetings, we use WebEx video conferencing solutions. According to Cisco, WebEx web conferencing combines dynamic online meetings with integrated collaboration tools.

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll

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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been working on this project for more than year. 112 participants created Twitter accounts and are tweeting regularly, 1674 videos were posted on YouTube created with FLIP cameras donated by CISCO, and 131 blogs are regularly sharing their stories. 12 training centers have been established.

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N2Y4 Mobile Challenge and Conference

Amy Sample Ward

This year’s event convenes world-class speakers and (15) “Featured Projects” focused on innovations happening in mobile field competing for $50k in cash-prizes. Do you need real-world case studies to help inform the way you think and develop your mobile projects? Location: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA. Kick the tires.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And that’s why it’s critical that all those young geeks have the best, geekiest time that ever they had because happy, fulfilled Campuseros translates into positive brand identification for Movistar, Microsoft, The Mexican government, Ibm, HP, Asus, Nokia, Motorola, Nec, Opera, Noiselab, Volaris, Cisco, Oracle, Zte.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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