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+1-206-965-9345 | March 8, 2011This Month in Gong GongToday, March 8th, is International Women's Day. What did you do today to celebrate? Let the world know - and join the global celebration by tagging your posts and tweets with the #iwd hashtag. Click here to add a post to Kabissa Connect or send your message by email to connect@groups.kabissa.org. Kabissa collaborated with WiserEarth on a survey of West African civil society organizations and the role of social media in their work. Today we are pleased to release the results of the survey (download PDF: English / French), as well as spreadsheets containing data we used to do our analysis. We welcome researchers to download and use the data and let us know what they gleaned from it, and give us feedback on questions we may want to ask in future surveys. Mark Root-Wiley, the star Kabissa volunteer who designed this newsletter, posted a thorough Introduction to WordPress for Civil Society Organizations which he is convinced is the best software anywhere for creating and maintaining nonprofit websites. Volunteering at Kabissa is shaping up nicely, with teams forming to work on different categories of tasks to nurture and grow Kabissa as a network, improve our online platform and sustain Kabissa the organization. We will be announcing opportunities soon, but you can contact us anytime if you are interested in joining our volunteer team or contributing to projects. Click here to express interest in volunteering for Kabissa or contact our volunteering coordinator at volunteering@kabissa.org. Now on to this month's Gong Gong, packed with great updates and content from the Kabissa community. As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with feedback, reactions, and questions! With thanks, Kabissa Team Organization Directory UpdatesFarmers Supportive Service and Community Utilities (FASCU) - Wenchi, Ghana Empowers poor rural communities through facilitation, training, education, advocacy, credit and to increase and sustain their livelihood options, natural resources and access support from relevant service providers.
Panos Eastern Africa - Kampala, Uganda Our mission is to address the information needs of the poor and marginalised, create media visibility of their concerns and inform policy through building the capacities of the media and civil society, researching, documenting, communicating and disseminating quality development information.
Blogs, News and Opportunities More from Kabissa Connect ICT Peer Learning There are a million ways to make a website, but my personal favorite - and arguably the most popular - is WordPress. Because of its ease of use, price ($0.00!), and community, WordPress has been my Content Management System (CMS) of choice for every client - including nonprofits, small business, and university departments - I have worked with as a freelance web designer.
Posted on 08 Mar 2011 by Mark Root-Wiley
post 28th Feb... So for 28th Feb, we have had amazing feedback. It started off with people asking why on earth they needed to stand up and sing the national anthem. We still have people who don't understand what it was all about. But there is a good number of people who stood up and sang and wrote to us from within and without Kenya. We are getting all sorts of stories about how people started thinking differently - simply sparked by singing the anthem and thinking about the words they were singing. It's incredible to see how the words mean different things to different people and to see how they own the words and make them relevant in their own context. We will slowly be putting up all these stories - photos and videos are already going up on the site www.28feb.co.ke Posted on 07 Mar 2011 by crystal simeoni
Calling all development bloggers - do you want to be researched? Calling all development bloggers - do you want to be researched? If so, please contact me and I will send you a short questionnaire by email to complete (international NGO blogs especially). I am a research student in international development at the University of Bath, UK. As part of my studies I am looking at blogs in development (specifically the blogs of international NGOs). You are invited to share your experience of blogging and participate in this study which will take place during March 2011. All information, including your identity, will be anonymous, and I will of course send you my research report if you would like a copy. Please send an email and I will send you a short questionnaire by email to complete. Thank you for your interest and I look forward to hearing from you. Posted on 04 Mar 2011 by Jane Sparrow - 1 Comments
More from ICT Peer LearningKabissa Updates For civil society organizations across Africa, the expanded use of Information & Communications Technology (ICT) has launched a new era marked by easier, more frequent, and more widespread communication directed to a variety of key audiences. The advent of social networks has resulted in greater awareness for many important causes and collaboration among different groups on crucial social initiatives, and as civil society organizations continue to maximize the potential of social platforms, their influence will continue to grow over time. Today, Kabissa and WiserEarth released a study that sheds light on the habits, concerns, and needs of activists in West African civil society with respect to social networks and ICT at large (Download PDF: English / French). Polling an indicative sample of civil society representatives across 15 different West African countries in October and November 2010, the survey provides a preliminary glimpse into the nature of daily interaction with social networks and communication technologies in the region.
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