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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

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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. We also need to remember we are only creating tools for people to use to help create solutions to their problems. . Realizing Potential .

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? tools for development, because everyone can now use the web as a space to express themselves, interact and co-create. s possible with free tools.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My co-author, Allison Fine and I found many great examples of successful activism using these tools as part of multi-channel campaigns in our book The Networked Nonprofit. He also makes a false distinction between online/offline or as Allison and I have called it “online and onland&# activism. She Jillian York’s critique.

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

from Web2.0 -- a response to David Wilcox's provactive post has inspired some blogosphere reactions, most noteably Nancy White who concludes " It is still about being conscious of what we are trying to do, and then bringing together the tools that make sense both for the people and the purpose they are serving. Extreme Email Makeover.

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