1. Philadelphia Send Off Event
April 24, 2009
Presenters:
Will Dickinson, Armenia 2004-2006
Mike Sheppard, The Gambia 2003-2005

3. Blogs & Wiki
in the Peace Corps
Exploring:
Peace Corps Wiki
Peace Corps Journals

5. NAVIGATION

6. EDIT

7. Making an Edit
Save!

8. Revision is compared

9. Staging Dates

10. Who edited the page?
• You can check the time/date
• IP that edited the article

11. Safety of Volunteer

12. Inspector General Reports

13. Medical Clearance

14. ET RATES
Type in “ET” to learn more

15. Add YOURSELF!
•Add DOS
•Link to Site
•Lessons Learned
•Publications
•Link to Blog

16. Volunteer/Staff homepage

17. ONLINE PUBLISHING ANY WHERE!

18. Tools to Publish yourself
Facebook Myspace Wordpress
Blogger Flickr…..etc

19. Blog Aggregator for Peace Corps
(old site)

20. Peace Corps Journals Country Page

21. Wordpress Volunteer Journal

22. Blogger Journal

25. Updates in REAL TIME!

28. Subscribe to RSS feeds
(over 360 available)

29. All updates from a country

30. All countries, all updates
( About 200 entries and 250 pictures everyday!)

32. Create a User
Create a User page!
And Start editing
TONIGHT

33. Thanks
Philadelphia Area Peace Corps
Association!

47. Africa

48. The Gambia

50. Gambian Money (Dalasi)
100 Dalasi notes
introduced in
2001
~D30 = $1

51. Public Transportation

52. The easy way…

53. …and the usual way

54. When all else fails

55. Different style of compounds

56. A new addition to the family

57. Along with a new name
Biran Siñan

58. My house …
… and my laundry

60. Life in the village

64. What we ate
BENACHIN
CHERI
COOS PORRIDGE WONJO

65. … and how we ate it

66. “Peace Corps Kichen”

67. A little splurge once in a while

68. TOBASKI
Commemoration of
Prophet Ibrahim's
willingness to sacrifice
his son for Allah

69. A real nightmare

70. The first and only University
in the country

71. They do remember you !

72. Two Years Later
JULY 2003 JULY 2005

73. July 2003 July 2005
253 lbs 170 lbs

76. Sunset!