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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

It’s a student crowd, including grad students, and it’s a first job — of the “Is this all there is?&# For more information, here’s the Campus Party Wikipedia Page and here’s a BBC report on a Brazilian Campus Party.). They haven’t arrived yet. Some of them are a bit p.o.ed Welcome to the U.S.,

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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Miraculously, the world’s countries came together and successfully negotiated the “Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled.” It works well for students in the United States, but we’re still not reaching American adults to the extent we would like.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known.

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