Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. The crisis in Syria is now entering year three and the situation is getting worse for children not better. Seems a little edgy?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

From Facebook to Netflix, companies are tracking and analyzing our searches, our purchases, and just about every other online activity that will give them more insight into who we are and what we want. Many activities in the social sphere also generate lots of information. Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

One of the things TechSoup does well is to bring relevant tools and resources to the needs that people have on the ground. The project is active in Iraq and Kenya. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. We connect the local with global resources.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The difference is that the social entrepreneur pursues change at scale primarily as a tool for social justice, not private enrichment. We provided a tool that blind individuals could use to scan and read their own books independently. The Arkenstone reading tools became a key mode of independent access to books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Every time I have taught a social media and digital communications strategy over the past decade, I always include useful research studies about the who and how people are using these tools. billion monthly active users around the world access the platform through mobile, while on any given day, almost half of its users are mobile only.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

The event helped create an extended dialog between participants of the Arab Spring and the developers of technology tools that activists have used to circumvent government censorship. In the closing session, El-Fatah noted that he had just gotten an email saying that two of his friends had just been killed in Syria.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul. Human rights activists there operate in a dangerous climate and it is important that they be trained and supported with the very best tools.

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