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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 23-29

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Kevin examines the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs' use of new media to empower youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan. Chris reports that TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative is now open to public libraries. In case you missed it, here's what we've had to say over the past week. From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog.

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I'm a mentor for the Young Caucasus Women's Project!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm mentor for a blog project for young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia entitled YoungCaucasusWomen. students, the young women will be trained in personal citizen journalism to be published on a weblog (a WWW publishing tool, available for public consumption.)

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Post-conflict Reconstruction: Disarmament, Reconciliation, and Blogging?

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Reaching out to youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan, DOTCOM. …Will explore youth issues through the lens of media, ultimately creating their own documentaries, digital stories, short films, public service announcements, and other media for distribution internationally.

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Mentoring Young Women Bloggers

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They are looking for bloggers from around the world to be blogging mentors for 1 week as part of the Young Caucasus Women project, a group blog for young women from the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). If you are interested, here is the original post from www.registan.net. All people don't grow the same way.

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Art, Social Change & Young Women Bloggers

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During the week the young women in the program from Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia wrote their own posts answering the question, we commented on their posts and they commented on each other's posts. Here is Beth's post and here is mine. On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday).

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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Disband the Publicity Department (the former Propaganda Department), which exercises daily control over content in the Chinese press. Release all journalists and Internet users detained in China for exercising their right to information. End the jamming of foreign radio stations.

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Changing the World: TechSoup's Newest Global Partner

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In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If Image 2 : Wikimedia / Public Domain. If you knew all eight, go buy yourself a cookie!). …" To our partners in Turkey, welcome aboard, and we're excited to see you change the world!

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