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UN team during the Pakistan Earthquake emergency

Hey, social media and “web people” out there, here are two opportunities you might be interested in:

UNEP, The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system’s agency addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action.

They are looking for a Social Networking Consultant for their base in Nairobi, Kenya. The vacancy announcement is available online.

And there is more:

The  Humanitarian Logistics cluster, is responsible for the information sharing and coordination in case of a humanitarian emergency. That includes infrastructure assessments, port & corridor coordination, gathering information of transporters and rates, customs, equipment. Their Rome based coordination cell is looking for a junior web developer to maintain their website and all web applications. An ideal job for a fresh computer graduate, they say. Experience not required. Eagerness, and willingness IS!

So what are you waiting for?

Picture courtesy Rein Skullerud/WFP

“Content is King” is one of the most important slogans for serious bloggers: No matter how well you promote your blog, if your content – what and how your write – is mediocre, people might discover your blog, but won’t come back. Good, original content is key.

It also works the other way round: you can write the best content but if people don’t discover your blog, you will be writing in a void. There is nothing as frustrating for a blogger than to write a fantastic post, … and see nobody reads it.

Here are the basic promotion techniques I use each time I publish a blog post:

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Help! oooooh...!

Source unknow. Other than The Beatles…

The past few weeks, I have been quite busy working with RSS feeds. I continue to be surprised about the possibilities RSS gives us, bloggers and web developers alike.

Here is an overview of the tools I discovered:

From RSS feed to Javascript: Feed2JS

If you want to spice up a page on your website, or integrate a feed into a blog widget, then have a look at Feed2JS. They offer an easy, fast and gratis way to convert any RSS feed into a simple Javascript. Each time the page with that Javascript is run, it displays the contents of the feed as if it were content on your page.

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Who needs G8 meetings when they have Facebook

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Illustration courtesy The Atlantic