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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. Needless to say, I learned a lot!

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A Geek's Reflections on Personal Fundraising Via Blog, Twitter, and Facebook

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They asked everyone born in September to give up birthday presents and ask their friends and family for donations to build water wells in Ethiopia instead. One of them was charity: water , a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations that had launched a September Birthday campaign. More information here.

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The Networked NGO in India

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This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

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Connie Reece shared some insights in this interview and you find more links to case studies and post campaign reflections here. In reflecting on this now, it is important to make sure that your supporters are doing the retweeting and that you're not overdoing it on your Twitter account or you risk annoying people.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

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As I reflect on what Literacy Day means, I can’t help thinking about the origins of my interest in Room to Read as an organization, and one particularly sticky literacy-for-development related issue that came up during that season of my life.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

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There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. We had some rich learnings in the reflection of what happened in the group.

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Amanda Rose, Twestival Leader, Reflects on Twestival

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She agreed to do a reflection interview with me, sharing what worked and what didn't. Scott Harrison, founder of charity: water was enroute to Ethiopia when we discussed Twestival. charity: water have invited Amanda to visit Ethiopia with them at the start of April (costs paid by private donors, not fundraising).