Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 TechSoup has just released the results of a global study if NGOs about cloud computing with some interesting findings. Cloud Computing Survey Results from TechSoup Global.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2006

According to a recent article in Muncie, Indiana's Star Press , "the National Retail Federation expects the average consumer to spend $791.10 Global Girlfriend is an online fair trade store that sells handmade gifts made by women's non-profit programs and cooperatives. this holiday season, up from $738.11 last year."

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

The responses were clear: climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it should be an urgent priority for us all to act. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa is a digital transformation strategist with twenty years of experience working with large non-profits in 55 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and the Pacific. “As

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. North Africa who have university degrees, but they are more likely to be unemployed than their less-educated peers due to the realities of the. pressing economic and social challenges. There are new skills and experiences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Many tweets lead to press calls.”. Daniel Bekele , Africa Director. Minky Wordan , Global Initiatives Director. For example, says Murphy, “Twitter has flipped our relationship with media. Instead of us pitching journalists , many have come to rely on our staff as sources and connect with them through Twitter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The IT press was buzzing in late April about the free portable WiFi embedded by Microsoft in select May 6 Forbes Magazine print issues. The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone. The social good impact of this field to encourage wealth distribution in Africa is immense. Strange News.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As the Obama administration ushers in a new era of foreign policy, this nation has an opportunity - an obligation - to aid our global neighbors in Darfur. 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. Darfur Voices.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. The mainstream IT press was alive with the topic. in Namibia is showing the way for providing Internet access in Africa. This is on a personal computing level. Big picure time. MyDigitalBridge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Just as blogging is now becoming mainstream, but was ahead of the curve three or four years ago (and several Bloggers , are now seen as influencials (and members of the Press (sorta) - if they have a wide enough audience). I sent an IM to Jonathan Fanton about an African intitiated Virtual Africa portal to Second Life (see next post!).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

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. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Here's here write up on word press. " Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia. Intel unveiled its support for the Global Education Alliance's pilot program to create an education framework in Rwanda. Her selection criteria.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

When citizens write letters and press their agendas in a coordinated way, Congress responds. And when Congress presses the president to act on a foreign policy issue, the president responds. As strange as it sounds, it can even be a "beach read"--(that's where I read it!)

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56. We have a grand plan; my dad calls it the grand plan for global domination [laughs]. I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Official press release here. DIA Blog - " E-xemplar: Ways to Make Legislative Campaigns Suck Less " Global NpTech Can anyone translate? Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa. Blackbaud, Inc. Nonprofit Times covers it here. Commentary from Michelle Murrain Allan Benamer. What language is this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Global NpTech. " to pursue your grassroots agenda in Africa. , but I think it is probably more useful to think of the ???young young people??? as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth."

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Global delegates. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. Global Summit on Community Philanthropy. Global Summit on Community Philanthropy. Global Fund for Community Foundations / Johannesburg, (Int.) South Africa.

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MAY 6, 2021

1980s – The concept of ESG continues to accelerate, especially around actions taken by the United States Government in the “Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act”, which outlawed any additional investment in South Africa. . In the same year, the Global Reporting Initiative was founded in Boston.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

If you look at the history in South Africa, and the movement to end the apartheid regime, or if you look at the revolution in Cuba, where literally the island was essentially a playground for rich people from the United States. It's now available on AK Press; you can get it at akpress.org, or on Amazon.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Here’s what I learned: Global Social Media and Mobile Usage Studies and Internet Penetration. I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. Unless we solve this problem of global poverty, the other problems won't be able to be solved.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

For example, World Press Photo put together this powerful series on life in North Africa, giving an inside perspective not found in headlines, soundbites, or protest clips. The Arab Spring also demonstrated that storytelling doesn’t need a big budget or tons of editing time to be effective. Image: Aya Tarek / CC BY-NC-ND.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. If you look around the world at some of the most pressing environmental challenges, you see women on the front lines of those challenges. billion people are without clean water.

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APRIL 23, 2013

The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone. The social good impact of this field to encourage wealth distribution in Africa is immense. Ginny Mies is a former journalist and former senior editor at PC World Magazine and now TechSoup Global's content curator. Digital Wallets.

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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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JUNE 21, 2022

There was extensive discourse on the global pandemic and how health crises in one part of the world can disrupt all our lives. The conversation also focused on vaccination, the global collaborative process, and philanthropy’s response. We prefer our dignity, but we need support; we need global support.” Interconnectedness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2006

Nancy White posted about the Blog Mentoring in Africa project , run by Ore Somolu and Sokari Ekine that she found from reading Joitske's blog. I came across Ore's writing via Sokari Ekine's fantastic bridge blogging of the African blogosphere on Global s.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

One of the gravest harms of the pandemic has been its impact on the food security of millions of people, in the United States and globally. COVID-19 exacerbated the link between food insecurity & global systemic inequality. But in the summer and fall of 2020, other major issues also started to dominate press coverage.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. My trusted sources, if you want to do a little bit more research anytime I cite a statistic, it’s always going to be from Pew Internet, M+R Benchmarks, Global Trends In Giving. You could have pitched this in a press release to an editor. I’m happy to send it to you afterwards.

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