Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Many tweets lead to press calls.”. Twitter is also used as a complementary advocacy strategy when reaching out to policymakers on a human rights issue. Bilingual and Specific Issues. Daniel Bekele , Africa Director. When conflict broke out in the Central African Republic, they started the CARcrisis hashtag on Twitter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

The opportunity to talk to brilliant people is one of the best parts of my job. I've been in Boston this week, and had the opportunity to visit WGBH/NCAM (nation's leading captioning group for the disabled), National Braille Press, as well as folks at BU, MIT and Harvard.

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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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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. Available on news stands now, so check one out if you see a new issue while in line at the grocery store. The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

It is a program that encourages nonprofits, large and small, to use the web to engage people in their work, and to encourage small donations. Here’s the press release: W.K. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin American and the Caribbean, and southern Africa. Today they just announced that the W.K.

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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. The mainstream IT press was alive with the topic.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Here's here write up on word press. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? The secondary goal is to provide better free, or fair information to people in these countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Official press release here. at Annual Meeting posted on the blog inviting people to participate in the social web. The Top Five Ways smart people are using twitter. Once you've done this a few times you'll find you can use it on the fly when you get into those disagreements about interface design issues within your department."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

young people???, young people??? The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. " to pursue your grassroots agenda in Africa. " I agree.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

This conference features exceptional speakers and a plethora of workshops that address key issues and trends affecting nonprofit human-serving organizations. TechNow connects you with the resources, information and people your nonprofit needs to succeed! South Africa / $250. South Africa. Technology. 10/27/2016.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve Williams: POWER stands for "People Organized to Win Employment Rights" and we are a membership organization of low-wage workers and tenants.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Monday rolls around, and you find yourself posting yet another press release to your nonprofit website’s blog. Photos of people are particularly compelling, so gather pictures of volunteers, beneficiaries, and community members. You scroll through your blog roll and see post after post with long text blocks and little else.

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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. As we've heard, something like 18% of the people in the world live on less than $1 a day, and a much bigger percentage live on less than $2 a day. Britt Bravo:What is KickStart doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Building an Everyone a Changemaker™ world is a very different mission from simply looking for the world’s elite social entrepreneurs, it involves using the stories and examples of these entrepreneurs to inspire people to action, sharing lessons learned across our networks and opening up the innovation process to more people.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Harvard lecturer and activist Marshall Ganz says people are rooted in their values and interests, rather than particular issues. Shared underlying values can be unifying, unlike issues, which can be divisive. What happens when the issue becomes, as Ganz put it, more divisive? Storytelling can be a powerful tool for good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. In fact the range of issues is pretty wide ranging. 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.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

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. More than half of those people are women and girls. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Digital Wallets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

m also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Burkina Faso, West Africa), and am even now preparing to move from Washington, DC to Seattle immediately following a two-month fellowship in Australia. The first is to get people off the mouse and onto the keyboard. t that have just upset people and driven them away? What metrics?

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

Many spoke to how COVID-19 continues to exacerbate disparities felt by marginalized communities and vulnerable peoples. For example, vaccination rates in parts of Africa are barely a few percent, while most EU countries’ rates range from 80-90%. Evidence driven hope was a recurring notion throughout the conference.

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APRIL 2, 2021

And if you’re one of those people and you’re really struggling and you need a lot of assistance and you’ve limited capacity, I feel you, so. Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. What I found interesting is that of those people that donated 89% said they’re likely to give through Facebook again.

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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. During this time, stories on this issue received their highest average Facebook and Twitter shares. But in the summer and fall of 2020, other major issues also started to dominate press coverage.

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