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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. On the last stop of that trip, I went to Kenya to climb a mountain. The story of what happened after that trip has been told in other publications. That first weekend in Kenya, when I didn’t climb the mountain, I stayed in the orphanage library. I never climbed the mountain.

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Net Tuesdays around the world: 6 new groups!

Amy Sample Ward

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. Nairobi, Kenya. Tags: community events net tuesday net2. I’m so excited about these new groups! Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.).

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GIS for Nonprofits: Learn What You Can Do (And How to Get the Software at a Discount)

NTEN

Nonprofits have been getting in on the action, too, from the Ushahidi project in Kenya to Movesmart.org's neighborhood search system in Chicago. The potential of GIS to help us tell our stories is enormous. Tags: GIS NPTech NTEN. I mean, just look at this new application in Google Earth that tracks flights in near real-time.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. The same with live information, personal stories from witnesses, and so on. Indirect Content.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Kibera is a slum located within the city of Nairobi, Kenya.

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Inspire: create, collect, share! My time at the '09 NTC

Forum One

Stories stick in our minds, get us energized and poised to take action, and provide a memorable framework that help us transfer messages to others. The best part: stories are so easy to come by, but so infrequently leveraged. I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience.

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Inspire: collect, create, share! My time at the '09 NTC

Forum One

Stories stick in our minds, get us energized and poised to take action, and provide a memorable framework that help us transfer messages to others. The best part: stories are so easy to come by, but so infrequently leveraged. I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience.

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