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Malaysia Party

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

After the opening show, we were treated to a short video extolling the virtues of investing in Malaysia. Willing participants in a transaction of an evening of entertainment for a four minute video. Knowing their audience it prominently featured a beautiful golf course (and of course beautiful Malaysian women).

Malaysia 100
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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

Dara met some impressive young activist associated with NGOs doing great work in the Muslim world: Crowdvoice.org is a social media site that tracks voices of protest by collecting and contextualizing data, such as eyewitness videos, photos, and reports to raise awareness about current social justice movements worldwide.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English.