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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They couldn’t solve the humanitarian crisis, but they could build a tool that could shine a light on human rights violations, bringing much-needed attention and support to developing emergencies. The tool was Ushahidi. Usahidi means “bearing witness” in Swahili. Congratulations!

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This global Martus meeting brought together individuals who use Martus to address different human rights documentation and security needs in widely varied projects, to share their successes and challenges with the software. What if we made it easier to send data to Martus directly from a wide range of other tools, like your mobile device?

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011). View more documents from E-Mediat. The video above tells the story about how Moroccan NGOS Defeat corruption and convey their message through social media tools.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. .

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

AnnieCannons gives human trafficking survivors the tools to support themselves and their family. Since 2011, with the help of their supporters they have rescued over 2,300 vulnerable and traumatized children from the sex trade industry and helped keep hundreds more from entering the sex trade through their various prevention programs.

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This Month at TechSoup: Sharpen Your Website

Tech Soup

But creating this site affordably, and finding the right tools to build and host it, can be a challenge — especially when you are relying on in-house talent with little or no web-development expertise. But which web analytics tool should you use? What Story Does Your Nonprofit’s Website Tell? Week 3: The RFP Process.