Social Media is one of the best ways of promoting our sites and our businesses through its channels. It is also a powerful strategy that can get us links, awareness and massive amount of traffic. There’s no other low-cost promotional method that will easily give us large numbers of visitors to our website. I’m one of many to believe in the value that social media strategy can bring to our NGOs but not knowing how to use it efficiently for my organization. Thanks to LDN and Dr. Marlyn Tadros’s expertise, I had the precious opportunity to acquire more knowledge about Social Media strategies. Thank you!

May Zaidan, Communication Manager - Injaz Lebanon, Member of Junior Achievement Worldwide.
2010

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Creating a social media strategy for your NGOs

Many NGOs have finally gotten the social media message: you’re either using social media for exposure, or you don’t exist in the new media. As always, many plunge in, including myself, without realizing just what we’re getting into at first. It is through a process of trial and error that we eventually get somewhere if at all. As always with digital media, there is an abundance of tools, and people find it difficult to choose which tools to use for their message. To add to the complication, each tool requires a learning curve whose duration depends on the complexity of the tool itself.

In order to create a significant digital presence one needs a social media strategy. It should be noted, however, that it is just as much a struggle to get people engaged in your message on social media as it is in traditional media.

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General Assembly Interactive Sessions in Preparation for the MDG Summit

We can End PovertyInvitation to Participate in the MDG Summit: Eradicating Poverty by 2015 preparatory process.

A website was created to  prepare delegations for the negotiations on the MDG Summit outcome document scheduled to begin in mid-April, the General Assembly is holding five informal interactive sessions providing participants with the latest information and best practices on the MDGs and related challenges as presented by the UN system, governments, academia, civil society, and the private sector. http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

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What does this server really serve?

by Richard Stallman

On the Internet, proprietary software isn't the only way to lose your freedom. Software as a Service is another way to let someone else have power over your computing.

Background: How Proprietary Software Takes Away Your Freedom

Digital technology can give you freedom; it can also take your freedom away. The first threat to our control over our computing came from proprietary software: software that the users cannot control because the owner (a company such as Apple or Microsoft) controls it. The owner often takes advantage of this unjust power by inserting malicious features such as spyware, back doors, and Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) (referred to as “Digital Rights Management” in their propaganda).

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