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The Networked NGO in Australia and New Zealand: Te Ao Maori

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I delivered the keynote there in 2008 and taught a workshop, “ Take Me To The Social Web.” To help prepare, Stephen Blyth pointed me to a video, The Beginner’s Guide to Visiting the Marae. I am excited for a return visit to Australia. He also sent me a book to read on the plane!

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

Have Fun - Do Good

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. I was hesitant to promote the Girl Effect, just like I was when I wrote about it in 2008 , because it is produced by the Nike Foundation.

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. This would be the first step I guess to making something better that was sustainable for NGO’s. Be Helpful.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It made me very happy to be teaching non-stop for almost two weeks. I’m always learning as I help others learn. Here’s a couple of reflections from my “trainer’s notebook.” Having a formal closing to your training helps extend the learning to action. Pass the Ugly Doll in New Zealand. v/bEZXiLl7HEU.

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Advancing the New Machine: A Recap from the Human Rights and Technology Conference

Tech Soup

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Using an event such as the 2008 financial crisis as a backdrop, he hopes to be able to back-test his hypothesis against the volumes of data generated around the same time.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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