NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen. Often called Africa's largest slum, it is home to nearly a million people. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen. Often called Africa's largest slum, it is home to nearly a million people. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

Tools 59

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. And for good reason. Reveal Change.

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

Betsy Rolland of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Asia Cohort Consortium , a group tasked with wrangling and consolidating data from half a dozen Asian countries, is wrestling with these issues every day in her work. The impact of donor expectations on data collection.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. And for good reason. Reveal Change.

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. Who are they and what are they working on? We should also be getting a new website to showcase our work very soon.

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Six Proposals That Impact Civil Society in Africa looked at the six Net2 attributes and africa location. Tactical Philthanthropy's Ten Top Projects - Sean Stannard-Stockton has put in the grunt work to review 100 plus projects to review and listed his top ten choices. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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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.

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Haiti Disaster Social Media Media 82

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. That makes them the official NPTech organization of the year, but we found some pretty outstanding work going on among others as well.

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News Review Technology Adobe 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type.

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Summary Nptech Tag Tools 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. But, it’s always useful to explore the framework of one’s work. Osberg & Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, 2015.

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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.

News 44

News Technology Africa Nonprofit 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The first post I wrote was called " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. What was the role of the nonprofit, charity:water, in working with Twestival? She agreed to do a reflection interview with me, sharing what worked and what didn't.

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Reflection Ethiopia Charity San Francisco 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

After completing the course, the students will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and other places in the world. They will be doing a variety of work tasks (not just social media and networks). Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue.

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Policy Social Media International News 103

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.

Disaster 44

Disaster Data Global Open 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Geekcorps Mali works to create and deploy ICT solutions that are sustainable and appropriate for Mali. Extreme Email Makeover.

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Nptech Widget Tag Twitter 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. We’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years advocating against cuts to the funding that supports our work, by pointing out how amazingly effective this funding is. That’s all of the legal work-up on a treaty and how U.S.

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