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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Sami Ben Gharbia so eloquently noted on Al Jazeera’s Riz Khan program last week, these networks have existed for a long time. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. Are they enhanced by social media?

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

At the Millennium Villages Project, with the help of groups like Inveneo, we’ve been able to take advantage of the advent of low cost and low power computers, long range wifi-networks and, increasingly, GSM-based data to deliver ICT services in a much more affordable way. Achieving limited scale, chasing sustainability .

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Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

NTEN

When faced with this list of challenges, I've seen some nonprofits try and find a life-raft in the IT ocean by following what larger commercial or government organizations do. A lot of IT failures happen when people focus too much on one issue at the expense of another. Defining the different roles helps avoid this.

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. To me, SL has the potential to replace all of those social networks with personal 3D spaces, all linked via a pseudo-metaverse. Gary Hayes points to one of his older posts about this issue with a visual.

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

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Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.