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You Deserve a Raise

New Environment For NGOs & Advocates

By tbelford | January 26, 2012

In this slide presentation, Lee Rainie of Pew Internet presents ten “fresh realities” of the digital age that NGOs (and others) must contend with to succeed in persuading others. What Rainie says, much of it related to the explosion of social media and mobile communications, applies to all messaging and... Read more

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