My first couple of overseas jobs were pretty much just being the native English speaker on staff. Right after undergrad, I was an intern with the American University in Cairo. I drafted or edi...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2014/03/09/the-privilege-of-speaking-english/
If there is one question I get asked most often by people who don’t work in international development, it’s what can I do beyond just giving money? First of all, there is no...
There has been an interesting blogosphere discussion of crowdsourcing in the last few days. The usual crew of people who think about aid – this time humanitarian response in specific – seem t...
Text of a short talk I’ll be giving next week: I want to tell you a story about crowdsourcing, social media, and how the world is changing. A little while ago, we saw an outbreak of brutal ethn...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2010/07/10/ushahidi-twitter-and-the-future-of-foreign-aid/
Joseph Kimojino @maratriangle Why you should follow: Fascinating first-hand account of wildlife protection in the Mara Triangle, complete with catching poachers, making tourists behave, and helpi...
Ten people to follow on Twitter if you’re interested in international development. Not the top ten, necessarily – there are too many great people on Twitter for me to make that claim. But ten...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2008/12/02/international-development-on-twitter-part-1/
I’ve got a lot of blogs in my RSS reader. 166, to be precise. And I treat it like an email inbox, and I keep up with it. They’re smart blogs, and I love the feeling of learning new stuff all ...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2008/11/19/what-to-read-for-insight/
About two weeks ago, something fascinating happened. Kjerstin Erickson, the director of FORGE, a small NGO that works with refugees in Zambia, posted on her blog at Social Edge. She said that FOR...
1. Using it just for press releases. People don’t follow you on Twitter for generic organizational announcements. They follow because they want to feel a personal connection with what you do. T...
My Google alerts have been good to me. I have been heartened to discover more and more blogs which touch on international development in interesting ways. You may have seen my blog roll expanding...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2008/10/05/international-development-blogs/