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5 questions for Samara Islam

NTEN

I ran the audio board with an A/V team that recorded football games for local public access TV. What are some of your favorite local adventures? I grew up in the 1990s, so Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles probably influenced this a lot. I also really want to go to India to see the Taj Mahal. What was your first job?

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent. If your community meets offline at a local watering hole to share opinions and make plans, don’t bother setting up a Twitter account with the purpose of influencing them.

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

Forum One

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.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. However, the local culture was to cover your body up. What was our learning?

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How Can Philanthropy and Technology Co-Evolve for Development?

Tech Soup

It not only illustrates how they could influence future developments but how they could respond to a future made even more unpredictable by technology. They do more work locally than globally. They must not only adapt to developments in technology but influence the way technology develops to ensure it continues to be used for good.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels.

Change 73