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Join Jeffrey Sachs Online, 9 June

June 8, 2009 – 9:18 am

The Guardian is hosting a live online chat tomorrow at 10am UK time where economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special advisor to the UN secretary-general,will be answering the public’s questions about how aid works and whether it can help Africa.    You can still post your question here.
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IFC Online Attended by Delegates from 42 Countries

June 4, 2009 – 9:34 am

IFC Online – the world’s first international virtual fundraising conference – attracted around 1,800 delegates from 399 organisations in 42 countries.  The inaugural IFC Online – staged by the Resource Alliance – was held on 12-14 May 2009. Focusing on digital fundraising, it featured presentations by the world’s leading digital fundraising experts, including M4ID’s Managing [...]

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Hearing Test

June 3, 2009 – 2:43 pm

M4ID is, together with the team at Family, seeking to connect a global, online audience with the ‘disability and development’  theme.  We spent the afternoon thinking through and researching strong concepts and we were all moved by this simple, brilliant effort from the Red Cross in Norway.

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Google Wave: Redefining Email and Web Communication?

June 1, 2009 – 6:57 am

Google has announced the development of a new, super in-browser communication and collaboration tool, Google Wave .  It’ been causing great buzz in social media circles and has already been hailed as the next evolution of email.
Created by two of the guys behind Google Maps,  the concept behind Google Wave is to “unify” communication on [...]

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Telling the Katine Story Online

May 29, 2009 – 10:26 am

In October 2007, the Guardian embarked on a three-year project to support development work carried out by the African Medical and Research Foundation, better known as AMREF (an amazing organization!)  and Farm-Africa in Katine, a rural sub-county of north-east Uganda. The Guardian’s dedicated Katine website gives readers and the public the chance to find out [...]

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Monitoring Twitter Discussions

May 28, 2009 – 12:11 pm

Another good way of researching topics and discussions on Twitter is to use the Monitter site.. just type in hashtag+word you’re interested in and follow conversations.

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Twitter How To: Hashtags

May 25, 2009 – 8:58 am

M4ID is getting an increasing nr of queries from partners about Twitter use, so we’ll post a few microblogging ‘how to’s  over the next weeks, starting with hashtags:
What are Twitter hashtags? Hashtags are a way of sorting and structuring the information overload that is on Twitter: when affixed with a hash symbol “#”, information can [...]

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Obama inviting participation through social media

May 24, 2009 – 1:00 pm

Obama is delivering on his promise of a new era of open government and inclusive policy making, facilitated by social media.  Americans are, throughout May and June, invited to send in, through mail, e-mail and via a website, views on how to make government more transparent and prioritise policy plans.  After this brainstorming phase, key [...]

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Online Manuals ToGo

May 19, 2009 – 1:29 pm

This ‘ToGoManuals’ concept (check out this link for full description PDF, video soon to follow) is a great example of how organizations can use social media internally to improve and facilitate work, as well as making use of the collaborative aspect of social media.. the ToGo concept has been developed by students at the University [...]

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Mobilizing Finnish youth 2.0 style

May 18, 2009 – 1:40 pm

M4ID is training over 50 youth organizations and their communications team on Tuesday, 19.5, we’ll report back on experiences and feedback gained from the Alianssi event on Wednesday..

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