Her first post is about her experience leading a social media workshop for staff from NGOs in Ukraine. This was part two of a series of workshops sponsored by the Ukrainian Citizen Action Network which is a USAID funded program based in Kiev but serving all of Ukraine. MORE

I know that may sound very ‘soft’ as political analysis goes, and I also know that no amount of niceness "fixes" Syria or Ukraine or human trafficking or global warming. MORE

Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0 One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? MORE

Happy New Year ! I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. How about you? Last year, I decided that I didn’t need to wait until New Year’s to establish happy, healthy habits in my life. MORE

On my 12 hour plane ride back from Ukraine, I read Dr. James A. Levine’s book “ Get Up: Why Your Chair Is Killing You and What You Can Do About It.” MORE

A great example that illustrates this combination is Bellingcat's Vehicle Tracking Project , which tracks movements of Russian military equipment related to the Ukraine conflict. Nonprofits are often wary of creating their own data visualizations, and for valid reasons. MORE

Three intrepid blog managers are soliciting contributions from all over the world, and so far, there are posts from Belarus, Canada, Germany, Northern Ireland, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the US. This week, a kitchen sink of inspiring bits. MORE

I’m just back from two weeks of inspiring work where I participated in a training for women organizations in the Ukraine and the International Fundraising Congress in Holland. MORE

a number of popular uprisings in the Ukraine and South Korea, to name just a. Via a press release from Michael Stein Mobile phones have enormous potential in electoral, voter. registration, and election monitoring campaigns, finds a MobileActive Strategy. Guide released today by MobileActive, a global network of organizations and. individuals using mobile phones for activism and civic engagement. The Guide. can be downloaded at here. MORE

Last year, I was honored to work on an amazing project that brought me to the Ukraine along with a delegation of women technologists to work with local women’s groups on building technology skills. March 8th is International Women’s Day. MORE

A branch of my family tree is from the Ukraine. I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. In Ukraine, nearly 2 million people are internally displaced. MORE

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. MORE

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In a few weeks, I’ll be facilitating a training in the Ukraine with Wake International. As part of the curriculum development, we needed to have meetings with our trainers, some who are here in the US, but also with our partners in the Ukraine and one from Poland. MORE