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Yippee! After months of planning and discussion, we finally have the Africa Roundtable on the calendar! Our inaugural catered luncheon will take place on Friday, March 2nd, and from then on the first friday of every month. Each Roundtable will feature a guest speaker and provide plenty of time for each participant to share their own news, goals, and opportunities with the group.

A comprehensive review of the Kabissa database of organizations is long overdue, especially with an upgrade in the works to make organization profiles even more useful for finding and connecting with African civil society. To this end we are organizing a "work party" this coming Saturday, 4 February and we'd love to have as many people pitching in as possible, both remotely via the Internet and face to face on Bainbridge Island at OfficeXpats, a coworking and meeting space.

We have redesigned the site to reflect Kabissa’s role as a niche network connecting people and organizations working for positive change in Africa. We hope you like it!

We can’t wait for you to explore the site and give us your feedback. Here are some highlights:

• The Kabissa Front Page draws in new members by highlighting our unique offerings for African civil society, showcasing members through a new “member stories” section and featuring news and blogs posted on Kabissa by members.
   
• The Kabissa Community Blog is a space available for members to blog about their activities in Africa and to share opportunities, insights and tech tips relevant to the continent. Posts to the blog are featured on the Kabissa frontpage, monthly member newsletter and distributed via Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.
   
• Kabissa Groups are now reoriented around private, members-only discussion, information sharing and networking via email (like Yahoo! Groups or a listserv) to enable quicker interaction and mutual support between members - directly in our email. Each group has a private online space containing member list, full record of email discussions and wiki pages.
   
• Log in to take a look at the new Member Dashboard pull-down menu which brings together in one place everything you might need to do to manage your group memberships, newsletter subscriptions, user profile page, organizations and more.

If you encounter a problem or bug with the new site, or have any feedback at all, please report it as soon as possible via our feedback form at http://kabissa.org/beta so we can fix it - thank you!

I am Diana, a 24 years old Romanian, who discovered Kabissa on the UNV online volunteering website.  After being interviewed by the Executive Director, Tobias Eigen, I was given the great news that I have been accepted in the team, as a volunteer coordinator.

Dear Kabissa Community,

Thank you for the many inspiring photos we have received as part of Kabissa's inaugural photo competition.

Today, through Monday, July 25th, you have the opportunity to vote for your favorite photos, at: http://kabissa.org/photocompetition. You are invited to click on each photo to get a larger image as well as a description of the story behind the photo. 

Please help to spread the word by sharing the link to the community vote through email, Facebook and Twitter.

Dear Kabissa members, supporters and friends,

We’re currently looking to fill four internships that are key to helping complete Kabissa’s transition from social business providing technology services and training to a leading niche network serving African civil society.