Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
An ad-hoc group of tech bloggers based in Kenya decided to do something about it. Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 27, 2007
I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. But I have to admit the bastardized language thing (“hai, I iz doin stuf&# ) just isn’t funny to me. I haven’t been posting near as much as I’d like, mostly because I’ve been rather busy. Really, I am.
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Tech Soup
MARCH 29, 2017
LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.
Tech Soup
APRIL 19, 2016
Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 What is Jumo?
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 3, 2012
That said, way back in September 2010 I wrote a blog post on how to launch a TV station for your nonprofit using UStream (alternatively LiveStream has gained considerable market share). Bloggers and #NPTech folks sometimes use language that is a little too technical for nonprofit staff who have no formal training in computer technology.
NTEN
JUNE 20, 2011
When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. They were able to update it at any time with all the information necessary to reach out to, orient, and support bloggers spreading the message about the campaign. Information for bloggers. Infrastructure. That directed the build.
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