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"I put together a video from a site visit just with iMovie. It was a pretty easy system to learn and easy to edit footage. For ideas of how to frame the narrative I just spent about an hour watching videos from other non-profits and used similar…"

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Welcome Peer Counselors

We've seen a lot of activity around here, thanks to all the WhyDev folks. We're happy to have you! A couple of suggestions for getting started:1) Join some groups. Everyone should join collective wisdom - it's our community think tank. beyond that, head over to the Groups area and see what we've got. There are groups for every interest…See More

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Hi All, This is a reminder that the AidSource blog is for original content from AidSource members. It's fine if you want to reprint posts from your personal blog, but it needs to be reprinted in full rather than just a link. We are not interested in…

Nov 20, 2012

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Name: Alanna

Profile type: Individual

What I do: Aid/NGO worker based in the field, Journalist, Aid Critic, Skeptic, Partner/Spouse of an Aid/NGO worker

About me: Founder of AidSource and hownottohelp.com, writer of blogs, global health geek, mother of two, TED Senior fellow, currently working for an employer who prefers not to be publicized.

My website: http://www.alannashaikh.com

My other website: http://www.bloodandmilk.org

My other other website: http://www.alannashaikh.com/products/index.html

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Welcome Peer Counselors

Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:14am 0 Comments 3 Likes

We've seen a lot of activity around here, thanks to all the WhyDev folks. We're happy to have you! A couple of suggestions for getting started:

1) Join some groups. Everyone should join collective wisdom - it's our community think tank. beyond that, head over to the Groups area and see what we've got. There are groups for every interest…

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Help me brainstorm?

Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:21am 1 Comment 0 Likes

So, I have two ideas I've been knocking around and no one I know in person has the right set of skills to really give me feedback. I'd love it if people here at AidSource could chime in and help me think.

Idea #1 - an ad network for aid blogs

Food bloggers have an ad network. Mommy bloggers have BlogHer. Aid bloggers have nothing. What I would like is a network that every aid blogger could join and then we'd work with advertisers as a single collective. Most…

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