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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. s blogs feed (if you can deal with an overflow of posts that is.) " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. Every day I see their faces in my feed. What Twitter lacks in corporeal contact, I think it makes up in longevity. To label these weak ties is just inaccurate.

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