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Link Roundup: From Social Media to Emmanuel Jal

11 Aug 2009

by Josef Scarantino

Africa, Nonprofit, SciTech, Uncategorized

  • How Social Media Is Like Sharecropping (via Conversation Agent blog)
  • Why You Need Empathy to Be an Innovator (via Guy Kawasaki’s “How to Change the World” blog)
  • Conferences that Matter Fall Edition 2009.2.1 (via Philanthropy 2173 blog)
  • Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child (via TEDTalks)–From Sudan, this musician is going places. Check out the video.
  • Quickie on Google Grants (via onPhilanthropy)–Get the skinny on the new Google Grants.
  • Do governments spend too much on foreign aid? (via The Road to the Horizon blog)–The answer might surprise you in this video.
  • The Curious Case of Africa Blindness (via WhiteAfrican)–Erik Hersman muses over the possibility of African blindness in tech. As expected, a great read.
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