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New Girl Effect Video: What Are Your Favorite NGO's Serving Girls?

Have Fun - Do Good

Blogger and coach, Tara Sophia Mohr, has done a lovely thing and organized over 30 bloggers to post about The Girl Effect on the same day. Many of you probably saw the original Girl Effect video in 2008, which laid out the connection between educating girls in the "developing" world and reducing poverty and HIV/AIDS.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. So, I'm posting this here on my blog to alert my Cambodian blogger colleagues (whose email I don't have) that Christian is coming to your country. (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That includes the time necessary to research and write material and to secure images, videos, and graphics, as well the time necessary to manage and edit guest bloggers. If your nonprofit does international development in Asia or Latin America, try Hi5 or Quepasa.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. " Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Guest Post by Tom Dawkins: Ashoka’s use of Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This called for a new approach to outreach and communications and led to me joining Ashoka in late 2008 in a new position of Digital Marketing Strategist. Recent chats have looked at green entrepreneurship, mobile innovation and building cultures of social entrepreneurship on university campuses.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. He is currently a blogger for The Huffington Post and a contributor to the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Daniel steered the organization through this growth.