Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

and develop an end-to-end system that manages those key points all the way from collection through regional, national, and international aggregation to analysis.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City. Data is the new black.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City. Data is the new black.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Fundraising. Missing Persons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Six Proposals That Impact Civil Society in Africa looked at the six Net2 attributes and africa location. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. Younger people who are the most deeply engaged demographic on social media are likely to also use services like YouTube and also Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram. is another one I’m watching. The nonprofit refurbisher.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The Extraordinaries is smartphone software (iPhone, Blackberry, and more) that allows millions of people to perform brief micro-volunteer tasks on their smartphones in a few minutes of spare time. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. Second Place: $15,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Despite numerous dedicated efforts to end this crisis, Darfuri people are still suffering and struggling to survive. Just Africa. The initiative also has a group blog - it's the homebase where the campaign is aggregating campaign coverage in the main stream press and on blogs. Here's the call to action from the web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

David Wilcox has been doing a lot of thinking about re-inventing membership organizations or associations given that one can connect and meet people who share their interests online more easily with social media tools. " Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Rather than just telling people how the world needs to improve, the successful social entrepreneur demonstrates how to do it. If cost benchmarking doesn’t make sense (as in the field of human rights), can we dramatically change the way people operate in a given area? Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. was designed for Africa and costs more. Digital Inclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

As one of the key people on the Global Twestival team, her role involved a lot of different tasks; setting the strategy, writing the guidebook, mentoring city organizers, establishing teams for sideline projects, administration, working with the charity, securing partnerships, developing website content, and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

It includes international trade and development, security, micro-finance, LBGT rights, renewable energy advocacy, water policy, security, human rights for indigenous people, terrorism financing, refugee protection policies and rights, law enforcement, trafficking, peace in conflict areas, and poverty reduction. 2013: A Year in Social Media.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

This week check out the launch of the new Global Open Data Initiative, the pursuit for the release and use of open data in Latin America and thoughts on open data and democracy in Africa. It will also give people the tools to help them work with and understand the power of data and aid data reuse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. The Africa Forum is the premier meeting of blindness groups across sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s held roughly every three years. It was the third Africa Forum I’ve attended: I went to Accra, Ghana, in 2011 and South Africa in 2004.

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