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DECEMBER 28, 2011

My wife and I lived at a dusty intersection of two unpaved streets in Kayes, Mali. Just up one of them, a few squat concrete shops sat boarded up – except, every now and then, a crowd would start to gather, eventually filling most of the street. When a truck full of merchandise pulled up, it was a surprise only to us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A logo design for Helen Keller International’s new malnutrition screening campaign in Mali. . • A brainstorm of online video-game concepts for Room to Read’s new children’s book, Zak the Yak with Books on His Back. •

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. Below is an e-interview with another woman making a difference in Mali, Caitlin Cohen, one of two US coordinators of the Sigida Keneyali Project. What is the biggest challenge of your work?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Using a donated CMS from our good friends at Orchid Suites , and a beautiful design by Erica Trauba, we've built a new website for the folks at the Mali Health Organizing Project, a group that is helping a community in Mali to build its own clinic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 20, 2007

It is a project of the start-up NGO, Mali Health Organizing Project. Mali health NGO Last month I posted an e-interview with Caitlin Cohen, the US coordinator and co-founder of the Sigida Keneyali Project , a community-run clinic in Sikoro for 28,000 people.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The street corner I lived on in Mali was typically quiet (by African standards, anyway): aside from the woman who sold fried dough stuffed with shredded meat, most people just passed by.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

What works in Mali may not work in Myanmar. " She cautions, however, that technology is not one size fits all: "Of critical importance, however, is not just putting enabling technologies in place but putting the most appropriate, locally relevant types of technology in the hands of those who need it.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Any money you donate will go to Rokia, a seven-year-old girl who lives in Mali, Africa. Buy it now. 75% of guests who stay in this hotel reuse their towels. Join them and reuse your towel to help save the environment. The answer? They all use principles of behavioral economics to influence their audience's decisions. And you can too.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 20, 2007

When Doria and I were in Mali earlier this month, we found that our nephew Fodé Camara had started to work with a group called Siguida Keneyali - Health in Our Homes - an organization working to improve health in Sikoroni, the poorest Quartier in Bamako.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

In partnership with Orange France and Emmaus International, Clic Vert has developed electronics recycling and refurbishment workshops in Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Madagascar, and Togo to organize the collection and repair of used mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Resources and Reports Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog summarizes an article with tips on for how nonprofit marketing and public relations staff can gain entry into the blogosphere Michael Stein (East Coast) files a report from Mali about the GeekCorps Mali project. A Few Web2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Well, for one thing, planning a trip over the holidays to Morocco and Mali. There's so much going on my blogging has just gone by the wayside. Let's get back on track. What have I been up to? I've never been to the African continent before, so you can imagine how excited I am.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 26, 2007

Last weekend I met Canadian filmmaker Sylvain l'Esperance, whose wonderful documentary about life in the Niger Inland Delta region of Mali was showing at the Toronto Hot Docs film festival. To we technologically inclined folks this may seem obvious, but not everyone sees it.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Over the long weekend I finally managed to get started on a new project I've been excited to get involved with - a new website for the Sigida Keneyali health project in Mali that I blogged about in January.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. " Who could argue with that? Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments.

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APRIL 24, 2009

I recently was able to spend an amazing evening enjoying one of my new fave artists, Habib Koité and his band Bamada , based in Mali.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. The field became fixated on achieving two holy-grails, requisite in every proposal, but nearly always unattainable: sustainability and scalability. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

For example, @OneGreenPlanet recently tweeted a link to a call-to-action page to help Mali the elephant. Had they not included a link, this tweet would have had significantly fewer retweets. Upload properly sized photos and infographics. The ideal image size for uploaded images on Twitter is 525 x 262 pixels.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

She joined the Death with Dignity National Center team after ten years of volunteering and working with local nonprofits, with a two-year break serving as a Health Education volunteer with the Peace Corps in the West African nation of Mali.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 2, 2007

SocioLingo's Africa Blog : Written by an Englishwoman living in Mali, this blog's frequent posts - many times a day - cover all of Africa and point out articles and reports on linguistic, cultural, archeological, economic, and political developments on the continent. SocioLingo's Mali Blog. SocioLingo's Mali Blog. AfricaBeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In person, I’ve met Clay Shirky himself, Tim Maly , Robin Sloan , and at least 10 more — and I’ve edited dozens of folks that I know exclusively through the service. .&# But the thing about Twitter, at least for me, is that I *end up* meeting the people that I interact with most closely.

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One of them featured statistics on the plight of African children and one was a story of Rokia, a seven-year-old from Mali, Africa. In another study, researchers tested two versions of a brochure for the Save the Children charity organization. The story-based version outperformed the infographic version by $2.38

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Geekcorps Mali works to create and deploy ICT solutions that are sustainable and appropriate for Mali. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. ICT in the Developing World. Check out the articles, blog, and resources.

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