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	<title>Elvira van Noort</title>
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		<title>DCI 5.0 &#8211; Africa&#8217;s Underdevelopment: Digital Citizens Talk Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Digital Citizen Indaba 5.0 will this year take place on 07 July at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. Our theme this year is &#8220;Africa&#8217;s Underdevelopment: Digital Citizens Talk Back&#8221; and concentrates on the use of new media tools in exposing crucial information about natural resource exploitation, mega-events (like the FIFA 2010 World Cup) and disasters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2010/04/12/dci-5-0-africas-underdevelopment-digital-citizens-talk-back/</link>
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		<title>EvN now a Memeburn contributor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EvN Media contributes to Memeburn, a website with &#8220;web-savvy insight and analysis&#8221; that is South Africa based.
You can find more here and read the  first article Citizen Journalism to shake up SA &#8211; more to follow&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2010/04/06/evn-now-a-memeburn-contributor/</link>
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		<title>Citizen Journalists receive certificates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-one Citizen Journalists received a certificate in Citizen Journalism after successfully finishing the six week training course at Grocott&#8217;s Mail newspaper in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Pictured here are Carol Strodl, arts and crafts sales manager, who&#8217;s story about vegetable gardens was published in the print edition. Dabula Maxam, unemployed, wrote about employment opportunities in Grahamstown and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2010/03/29/671/</link>
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		<title>EvN Media to mentor one entrepreneurial Journ student a year &#8211; starting NOW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why sign up for a mentoring programme? When Rhodes University approached me to be an Alumni mentor I doubted if I would be able to make a difference in the life of a student. But after only one meeting with my mentee I am positive I made the right decision. I now recall how hard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2010/03/18/evn-media-to-mentor-one-entrepreneurial-journ-student-a-year/</link>
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		<title>EvN: Citizen Journalism Trainer at Grocott&#8217;s Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m 1 of the people who were there this morning, &#38; I really enjoyed the 1st course. You really know your stuff. Thembeni&#8221; &#8211; Twitter message to @Elviravannoort.
My first Citizen Journalism class at local Grahamstown community newspaper Grocott&#8217;s Mail (GM) is history. Eleven participants this morning learned what a citizen journalist is, what news is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2010/02/22/evn-citizen-journalism-trainer-at-grocotts-mail/</link>
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		<title>Sign up for the next Citizen Journalism course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As published in Grocott’s Mail – Grahamstown, South Africa
By Zimkhitha Mbunge 
Applications for the third Grocott’s Mail Citizen Journalism course close at 5pm on Monday 15 February &#8211; go to www.grocotts.co.za/cj to register now.
The course, which is free of charge, takes place in the Grocott’s Mail Citizen Journalism newsroom, and will run for six weeks, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2010/02/05/sign-up-for-the-next-citizen-journalism-course/</link>
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		<title>Academic research to keep me on my toes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To constantly be at the forefront of academic research is an easy task when you work as the associate researcher at the Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership in Grahamstown. The knowledgeable staff of this prestigious institute keep me on my toes.  I write proposals about mobile news applications, brown-envelope journalism and South Africa&#8217;s digital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2010/01/22/academic-research/</link>
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		<title>Cheers to a Productive, Creative, Healthy and Awesome 2010!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EvN Media Solutions would like to thank all the people involved in our work and all the clients who make it possible to continue our business into its third year. Special mention goes to the School of Journalism in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and the Digital Citizen Indaba sponsors who are kind enough to ask for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2010/01/02/cheers-to-a-productive-creative-healthy-and-awesome-2010/</link>
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		<title>DCI for digital activism and social justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the third time I am involved in coordinating the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) in Grahamstown, South Africa and this year promises to be the best so far. Not only do we expect 300 delegates, DCI is now also a two-day event! It takes place on 5 and 6 September. Our theme is ‘Digital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2009/09/03/digital-citizen-indaba-for-digital-activism-and-social-justice/</link>
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		<title>Multimedia blogging at the National Arts Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grahamstown is waking up. The gradual change from a sleepy student town to National Arts Festival mayhem follows a years-old tradition: the re-painting of the city centre road marks and affixing the brightly-coloured nameplates to the numerous venues. It’s that time of the year when B&#38;B’s and shops repaint theirexterior and the lawns are put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elviravannoort.nl/index.php/2009/06/24/multimedia-blogging-at-the-national-arts-festival/</link>
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