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Fundrazr, now you can receive donations via Facebook

claudio@bocatics.org (Claudio Molino) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:31:00 +0100

Those of us supporting NGOs or not for profit projects can now invite our friends to make donations towards our cause.

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Fundrazr, now you can receive donations via Facebook

claudio@bocatics.org (Claudio Molino) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:31:00 +0100

Those of us supporting NGOs or not for profit projects can now invite our friends to make donations towards our cause.

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A good-looking or an user-friendly website? Tips for creating an usable and easy-to-navigate ...

clara@iwith.org (Clara Garcia) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:59:00 +0100

When we start planning our website, it is essential to consider our visitor's experience. They need to find it easy-to-use, with well-structured information and contents, and free of any distracting elements.
Any user landing on our page has to quickly get an idea about who we are and what we do and to intuitively find the information he is looking for.

This is what we call Usability.

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A good-looking or an user-friendly website? Tips for creating an usable and easy-to-navigate ...

clara@iwith.org (Clara Garcia) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:59:00 +0100

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iWith.org at CosmoBolitan BarCamp, Barcelona, 2010

liviana@iwith.org (Liviana Mustafa) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:42:00 +0100

Cucurulla's hub of NGO supporters and new technologies enthusiasts, iWith.org Barcelona, hosted on July 23rd and 24th , 2010, the CosmoBolitan Barcamp, a 2 days un-conference that brought together in the same virtual space dozens of speakers and participants from Argentina, Bolivia, Estados Unidos, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, España, Italia, Francia, Rumania y Suiza.

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Artemisia annua, a natural defence against malaria in Cameroon

liviana@iwith.org (Liviana Mustafa) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:15:00 +0100

A child dies from malaria every 30 seconds. With just a few grams of artemisia annua, that child could be saved in 5 days...
iWith.org is supporting one of the most promising anti-malarial remedies in Cameroon, highlighting the terrible impact of this disease and current initiatives against it which need our support.

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iWith.org’s 2010 Summer Photo Contest

elizabeb@iwith.org (Elizabeth Urbina) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:05:00 +0100

Summer has arrived and with it our plans to travel, to look for places that surprise us, relax us, or entertain us. We want to give you a project to work on if you consider yourself an observant and sensitive person, and have a camera. iWith.org’s 2010 Summer Photo Contest is open and from now until September 20th you can send us your photographs.

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New energy for iWith.org Switzerland

liviana@iwith.org (Liviana Mustafa) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:01:00 +0100

The iWith.org team is growing! Starting with June 2010, a new member has joined the Non-Profit activists and Internet passionate people in iWith.org.

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The Biodiversity in Images

elizabeb@iwith.org (Elizabeth Urbina) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:09:00 +0100

In 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, Catalunya has been celebrating the Biodiversity Week, offering iWith.org a new opportunity to work in a web project developed for the Xarxa de Custòdia del Territori (Network of Territorial Custody) an the Departament de Medi Ambient i Habitatge (Department of Ambiental Environment and Housing).

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Teaming, a support project promoting team work

elizabeb@iwith.org (Elizabeth Urbina) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:33:00 +0100

Some ideas are at least fantastic; sometimes we believe everything has been invented, but when it comes to solidarity, human beings can always be more and more supportive. Take Teaming for instance: This project was created with the idea that team work is the way to achieve much, much more.

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Iwith.org helps in the Course of Project Design for Conflict Solution and Community Mediation

elizabeb@iwith.org (Elizabeth Urbina) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:36:00 +0100

We enjoy teaching what we know, this is why this June and July we will be part of the teaching team in the online Course of Project Design for Conflict Solution and Community Mediation, which is part of a post-graduate course by the same name, which has been offered by the Univeristy of Girona 5 times before.

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New screencast: add a form

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Mon, 03 May 2010 11:44:00 +0100

A form can be linked to an event or an article from your website. It allows visitors to fill in fields with their name and other contact information. For you it can carry out surveys, contest or to register participants for training.

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New screencast: add a form

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:44:00 +0100

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Results of the St George's competition

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:01:00 +0100

On April the 23rd, we celebrated the International Book Day. On this occasion, Iwith.org organized an annual literary contest. This year the rule was to copy Twitter and write 140-character-sentences.

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Internet for the Balkans' organizations

katarina@iwith.org (Katarina Kostic) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:18:00 +0100

Last Thursday, the WWF Mediterranean Program, convened several organizations like the Red Cross, Greenpeace, XCT and iWith.org to strengthen the networking of its operations in the Balkans.

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Fourth Technical Conference for Stewardship of the Land, Landscape, and Cultural and Natural ...

ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:54:00 +0100

The XCT (Xarxa de Custòdia del Territori or Land Stewardship Network) Technical Conference was held again this year in a fantastic setting, in a farmhouse that has been adapted for training in the county of Lluçanés.

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Create your Facebook fan page

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:49:00 +0100

Nowadays, using social networks to spread activities of an organization is becoming increasingly common. Facebook, with more than 400 millions users worldwide is a good way to reach public.

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Create your Facebook fan page

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:49:00 +0100

Nowadays, using social networks to spread activities of an organization is becoming increasingly common. Facebook, with more than 400 millions users worldwide is a good way to reach public.

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Iwith.org interviewing our beneficiaries on their use of the Internet

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:31:00 +0100

For our conference at the United Nations, we made a video interviewing our beneficiaries on their relationship with the Internet and their approach to communicate effectively on the web with simple tools.

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The video of the United Nations!

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:47:00 +0100

A few days ago, we published a summary of our speech to the Council of Human Rights which took place at the UN in Geneva. Let's watch the video.

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New screencast: create an user

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:20:00 +0100

To manage your website, you need to create a screenname for each person. With this screencast, learn how to create a user and to give him administration permissions.

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New screencast: create an user

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:20:00 +0100

To manage your website, you need to create a screenname for each person. With this screencast, learn how to create a user and to give him administration permissions.

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New screencast: create a user

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:07:00 +0100

To manage your website, you need to create a screenname for each person. With this screencast, learn how to create a user and to give him administration permissions.

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New screencast: create a user

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:07:00 +0100

To manage your website, you need to create a screenname for each person. With this screencast, learn how to create a user and to give him administration permissions.

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Twitter tweets in several languages

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0100

No more excuses not to use Twitter! The platform of micro blogging, used by more than 50 million people, becomes multilingual.

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Twitter tweets in several languages

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0100

No more excuses not to use Twitter! The platform of micro blogging, used by more than 50 million people, becomes multilingual.

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Get your website listed, and well listed!

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:16:00 +0100

Quite often, our beneficiaries send us mails to ask us about web promotion and to get their website to appear more prominently in search engines when people do term-based searches…
It is a complex issue, but we will try to give you some advice in order to increase the provability to get on top of the list.

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Get your website listed, and well listed!

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:16:00 +0100

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Benefit yourself through website-tracking

villarrealrauls@bocatics.org (Raul Villarreal) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:35:00 +0100

There exists a tools used to track the origins of the visitors landing on your page.

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Benefit yourself through website-tracking

villarrealrauls@bocatics.org (Raul Villarreal) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:35:00 +0100

There exists a tools used to track the origins of the visitors landing on your page.

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Iwith.org at the United Nations in Geneva

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:22:00 +0100

On Thursday, March 11, 2010, the team of Iwith.org visited the United Nations of Geneva to give a speech over web communication tools for NGOs in the context of an event for the Human Rights Council session.

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New developments in the creation of newsletters and group emails

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:38:00 +0100

The platform Ab•core continues to evolve. This month, the tool used to create newsletter contacts is transforming.

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New developments in the creation of newsletters and group emails

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:38:00 +0100

The platform Ab•core continues to evolve. This month, the tool used to create newsletter contacts is transforming.

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Communication during Times of Crisis

villarrealrauls@bocatics.org (Raul Villarreal) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:49:00 +0100

Leandro Fernández Miró wrote an article in CiComunica titled Haiti, NGOs and Communication, which I found interesting and worthy of sharing. Leandro presents critical arguments of the media during times of crisis, and presents an alternative way to improve journalism. The following is a summary of the most important and controversial parts of the article ...

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Doing Good and Doing Well: Iwith.org at IESE

villarrealrauls@iwith.org (Raúl Villarreal) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:30:00 +0100

Last Friday Iwith.org attended the Doing Good and Doing Well event at the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. The event, run jointly with Net Impact, is the leading student run event on Responsible Business, Development and Sustainability in Europe. We had the pleasure of meeting many new interesting people and students interested in activism and sustainable development.

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Communication during Times of Crisis

villarrealrauls@bocatics.org (Raul Villarreal) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:49:00 +0100

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Let's present you our chimpanzee Kudia!

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:56:00 +0100

Since January, Iwith.org is sponsoring a chimpanzee of the Jane Goodall Institute, a recipient of ours. Last year, we have worked together for the Speak Out in the jungle project. Now, we continue with the sponsorship of Kudia, a chimpanzee.

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A success for the first Environmental Communication Congress!

ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0100

The 26 and February 27 were two days highlighting the possibility of establishing a convention respecting the environment, minimal budget and whose message is transmitted through small gestures of participants.

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In a time of Crisis, be united on the Internet

clarasolerd@iwith.org (Clara Soler) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:16:00 +0100

"Do your good action for the day every time you connect to the Internet. Collaborate for free with an NGO, changing your homepage."

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In a time of Crisis, be united on the Internet

clarasolerd@iwith.org (Clara Soler) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:16:00 +0100

"Do your good action for the day every time you connect to the Internet. Collaborate for free with an NGO, changing your homepage."

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Google sulking old browsers!

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:09:00 +0100

Google's developers team has announced that 2010 will be a turnig year for browsers. Indeed, they have decided not to adapt their applications to older browsers. Some explanations.

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Google sulking old browsers!

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:09:00 +0100

Google's developers team has announced that 2010 will be a turnig year for browsers. Indeed, they have decided not to adapt their applications to older browsers. Some explanations.

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New screencast: modify your HTML messages in one click

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:28:00 +0100

HTML messages are fixed blocks that are not menus. They contain data on recurrent on all the pages of the site as its slogan. Learn to change with this new screencast Ab • core

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New screencast: modify your HTML messages in one click

margot@abcore.org (margot berg) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:28:00 +0100

HTML messages are fixed blocks that are not menus. They contain data on recurrent on all the pages of the site as its slogan. Learn to change with this new screencast Ab • core

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Agroecology, a fair and responsible alternative

katarina@iwith.org (Katarina Kostic) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:05:00 +0100

With over a billion people worldwide going hungry, one of the major challenges of the XXI century is to produce food for an increasingly crowded world threatened with global warming.

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Chrome 4 and Firefox 3.6: Navigation Server Competition

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:13:00 +0100

Firefox or Chrome? Mozilla or the imperial Google? Or simply good old Internet Explorer? How to choose the appropriate navigator server continues to be a mystery. There are two essential tests that give the best results for choosing the correct server.

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Chrome 4 and Firefox 3.6: Navigation Server Competition

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:13:00 +0100

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A Nobel Prize for the Internet (and Each and Every One of Us)

villarrealrauls@iwith.org (Raúl Villarreal) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:54:00 +0100

A tool for watching cute kitten videos on YouTube, social networking, and reading the news and emails is now being promoted to have a new functionality: an instrument of peace. The Internet is being backed on a global scale for a nomination of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Here are the details…

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Despite the crise, the Spanish NGOs are doing well

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00:00 +0100

The private aid and obtaining funds for NGOs are stable and even increased in 2009 despite the crisis. We also note that people are more and more involved in volunteerings. Indeed, the reputation of NGO is sound to: a recent study by the League of NGO for development cooperation has revealed that 86% of Spaniards were convinced of the efficiency and capacity of these associations to improve their beneficiaries' lives.

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Let's participate to Sant Adrià de Besòs carnival

margot@iwith.org (Margot Berg) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:38:00 +0100

Next friday - February the 12th - will take place the 2n carnival in Sant Adrià de Besòs. The youth center Barnabitas, one of our beneficiairies, participates in this initiative.

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