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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

Connection Cafe

In the digital age, where most traditional storytelling is done over the Internet, attention spans are ever shrinking. Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. .” Stories have the power to bring together and to push apart –to distinguish and to extinguish.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How can we take it into the digital world. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. Digital Incubator Content - ten grants broadband innovators. We're working with most web savvy audience. College students have led the fight on issues. Activism has evolved beyond sit-ins. Darfur Is Dying was the result.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

Sudan caused a 0.12% increase in the country’s GDP growth rate, partly. A Mobiles for Development, global research study commissioned by UNICEF. has found that in India upon achieving a critical penetration rate of. 25%, every 10% increase in penetration resulted in a 1.2% increase in a. state’s economic growth.

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Year-End Giving Prep: 21 FAQs Answered by Fundraising Experts

Connection Cafe

He has travelled to South Sudan, and extensively across Canada on behalf of War Child. He has presented at AFP Congress and Fundraising Days, Digital Leap, My Charity Connects and more. Brock Warner, CFRE is the Senior Manager, Fundraising at War Child , a humanitarian organization devoted to protecting childhood in war zones.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Read More » Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide Aimee McLaughlin in Influence 5 May 2010 As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasnt sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference." " A key message was.

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13 Women Changing the World

Have Fun - Do Good

Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist. One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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