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This new documentary produced by Youth Movement Records in Oakland, CA explores the issues surrounding the murder of Oscar Grant by BART police and the effects it's had on youth in the community.

Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in the Greater Mekong Subregion

This short film was produced in five days during a social media training program in Northern Thailand near the Thai/Burma boarder. It was made by Kayan Indigenous youth who are fighting for justice and peace for their Indigenous peoples living in Burma.

CMYN was established in February 2010. It provides prevention, protection, rehabilitation and integration programmed to Cambodian vulnerable children and youths.

Cambodian telecom, mobile and Internet analysis and outlook.

Cambodian Internet usage stats. KH - 14,753,320 population (2010) - Area: 181,035 sq km spacerCapital city: Phnom Penh - population 1,781,113 (2007) spacer113,380 Internet users as of Jun/10, 0.8% penetration, per FB. spacer13,380 Facebook users on August 31/10, 0.8% penetration rate.

Indonesia Internet and Mobile usage summary and market outlook.

Indonesia internet usage breakdown and 2009 e-commerce and broadband summary.

Numbers on Internet usage in Asia

Burmese news from an Indigenous Burmese (Lahu) perspective. This website was built by one of our workshop participants.

This is an impressive website. We should really get Ja Har involved in training!

Most of this article is about revenue, but makes some key points on community feature differences and some insight on engagement.

Run your own version of your favorite Social Media websites.

I can't think of a better example of Deep Social Networking that the case study in this video. Skip ahead to around 7:00, especially from 8:30 to the end where they talk about Ushahidi.

I encourage everyone to this out! Especially in light of the draft paper we are working on.

Regarding the paper, given that Indonesia hit hard by the tsunami of 2004, the readers might respond well to this case study involving social media and mobile.

"Twitter recently redesigned their sign-up process to boost new user engagement. Though the new sign-up process added one more screen, conversions went up 29%. How? Gradual engagement." Interesting case study on website engagement.

The best I have seen

Thanks for the share, Cliff.

In this video are two websites that make online audio broadcasting dead simple: blogtalkradio.com and cinchcast.com. You can use these two services to become both a field news reporter and radio talk show host. Watch the video to see what I mean.

A list of sites based on highest visitor engagement. Worth studying the top sites for ideas on improving community engagement in our network.

Might be useful for presentations.

Colorful Ethnic Youth is an Indigenous Youth Network represented by the Lahu, Hmong, and Ahka Indigenous People's of Northern Thailand.

EMIPSEA is part of a themaic programme of FORUM-ASIA that covers seven countries: Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, East Timor, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The programme seeks to build capacity for advocacy, enable access to jusice and the rule of law, and insure the enjoyment of human rights for ethnic minoriies and Indigenous Peoples.