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I have a story of how New Tactics has helped me and my class.  I'm a student in a human rights internship class, and as I mentioned in an earlier blog post, we are working on a project regarding birth registration in Southern Sudan.  During the Human Trafficking featured dialogue, I was able to gather useful information from a variety of people (all of whom I thank very much).  I was also able to make a connection with a woman working in Sierra Leone, who was then able to put me in touch with someone working with UNICEF on the issue of birth registration in the region.  She was also able to get more detailed information concerning a birth registration campaign in Sierra Leone than I could find anywhere on the web.  Since then, I have been in contact with UNICEF in Sierra Leone, and have found a contact that has provided me with invaluable information on the birth registration campaign in Sierra Leone, and information that I would be unable to find elsewhere.  Because of these connections, my class and I are doing a case study on birth registration in Sierra Leone in the hopes that it will provide some insight into starting a similar birth registration campaign in South Sudan.  Without New Tactics, its unlikely that I would have been able to make the connection with UNICEF.  As a student, I don't have many connections internationally or with people actually working in the field, but through New Tactics I have been able to get in touch with people all over the world.  For me, the ability to make contacts and connections with people in a way which I couldn't do otherwise has been a really great benefit of being a New Tactics community member, and I hope other people are able to use the site to expand their own communities and reach out for advice, suggestions, and help as well as to share things that they've found useful and inspiring.