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Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. The social impact landscape in Romania is complex and exciting – you can see struggle and hope, fear and enthusiasm mixed in every conversation and every presentation. The slides are below as well as some notes.

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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 am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. He selected some definitions from the Internet. A rating of 100 or more is considered good in Romania.

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Great reads from around the web on October 25th

Amy Sample Ward

Long Live the Internet | Magazine – "Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. This blog seeks to capture the information gathered at the workshop, keep the discussion alive and build momentum."

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Blogging and Streaming My Layover in Heathrow

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Expect light blogging this week because I have no idea whether or not I will have decent Internet access. I'm doing a whirlwind in 7 days - Boston - Miami - London - Romania - Miami - Boston. I was not able to figure out via the Internet the fastest way to travel between terminals and I did not account for flight delays.

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Personal Democracy Forum 2012 Discount for TechSoup Community

Tech Soup

The theme of this year’s PDF conference is The Internet’s New Political Power. The conference includes sessions for everyone from novice organizers to tech-loving early adopters: you can get the basics on using the Internet and other technologies to better serve your community or dig into the latest technology trends.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

Tech Soup

A recent study finds that 73 percent of Internet users in Europe use social networks. In the United States, 66 percent of Internet users are on social networks. The Restart Romania challenge resulted in citizens proposing technological solutions to a range of real world problems such as corruption in the medical system.

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NCVO and TAG Conference Presentations and Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea: The online social graph is the map being constructed by social networks of every person on the Internet and how they are connected. Now that are computers and data can be connected via the Internet, we are witnessing a social layer - and it is challenging our assumptions of everything. tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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