Don’t let your work hide on a shelf!

Last semester I took a course on children in international development. It was an amazing overview of some of the particular development issues that hit children – child labor, trafficking, education in crisis, early marriage, HIV/AIDS to name a few.
The final project for the course was a case study and we were partnered up with [...]

How to get people talking about condoms, in 4 easy steps!

“Hey, stupid! What’s wrong with it? There’s nothing wrong with condoms!”

FaceBook to protest guerillas!

What do Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and Oscar Morales of northern Colombia have in common?
They all use FaceBook (with varying success) to call people to action. But Morales has had far greater success than either of the Democratic candidates.

Earlier this year, Morales created the FaceBook group, One Million Voices Against the FARC and used [...]

Tibet, video and Human Rights

I am a big fan of the organization, Witness, and a recent project of theirs is called the HUB. Its kind of like YouTube for human rights.  It will be interesting to see how the project goes – it has its pros and cons, but here is a good example of its use.
 
Note that the video that [...]

Game Over, Change Begins

Social causes and media have a long history, and nonprofits have become well acquainted with the use of media to further their causes. Beyond typical public relations, nonprofits have increasingly turned to documentaries to help tell their story and get the issues they care about out into the public dialogue.

But at the Making Your Media [...]

Monks and Mobile Phones

Not an image that comes easily to mind, but its one that is a big concern for police and government officials in Burma. As thousands of monks demonstrate in pro-democracy rallies in Myanmar, Burmese officials are cutting off a main channel of communications- cell phones. According to Agence France-Presse, the military government has cut off [...]

Google Launches “Outreach” for Nonprofits

I find this very exciting and intriguing. I will keep an eye on this to see what uses people come up with, and how popular it becomes. It will certainly be a great attention getter for some NPOs, and will help with some advocacy. How it affects their donations is yet to be seen….
From CNET:
Google [...]

World Refugee Day (ii)

June 20 is World Refugee Day. What do you know about the world’s refugee problem? Did you know there are more than 40 MILLION refugees in the world today? And that rather than shrinking, that number is growing? Between 2005 and 2006, the number of refugees increased 14% to a total of 9.9 million!
The largest [...]

Development Radio Goes to Afghanistan

(A special thanks to Jayne in Kabul for bringing this to my attention)
A new radio program has hit the airwaves in Afghanistan. “Let’s Build Our Village” is a soap opera that helps Afghans from Kabul to the rural regions learn about such development issues as democracy and women’s issues. The full article is from US [...]