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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We will use SKYPE out which is more rebust for monthly conference calls, scheduled for business hours in Pakistan so participants can use the Internet connection at their offices. One participant told me that she never learned so much about social media in so short a time. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More importantly, how can you bring them in beyond being passive listeners or re-tweeters but engage in the discussion? Finally, having just returned from the Middle East working with social media/NGO trainers , how can you create a global back channel so that language isn’t a barrier to learning? That means I need a T.V.