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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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

multilaterals, and high-impact entrepreneurs in the social media space, mostly from the western world and Africa, besides others. most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. “[In Africa] the race is on to find what mobiles can do in areas as disparate as public health, governance and education.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” ” That’s when you use software on the Internet versus your local hard drive or local computer network. Here’s the deal: cloud computing means that people are keeping data in similar formats.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

That means Net2Local organizers are reaching as many people as NTEN’s NTC conference every quarter ! Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. Our volunteer network has accomplished the following: 232 events.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Leads acquired online are often best nurtured through social networks and converted in the mail, or over the phone if you're after monthly donors. Finding out which people on your email list are on Facebook (without annoying them). Phoning your email supporters. Engaging on Facebook, converting in email.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 22, 2011

Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your local bank account. Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from UPS website to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully. Your Address: Home/Cell Phone: Preferred Payment Method (ATM / Cashier Check). Name: Donna L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

On Tuesday, right before the KONY video exploded on the mainstreams and went viral online, my 6th grade son came home from school and announced, ”Did you know that there are more people on Facebook today compared to the number of people on the planet ten years ago? I immediately asked him how do you know that?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

Like the Pew Internet & American Life Project , we believe that over the next decade most people will access software applications online using several different types devices rather than depending primarily on tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers. Find the first post in this series online. no Internet! -

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. 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. Google Drive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. You're making a tangible, lasting difference for both people and nature. Check out their MySpace page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I was seeking a way to combine my interest in technology and helping people. For example, with email, I think many people check it reflexively because of their device notifications, boredom, or having the false notion that busyness (e.g. Sometimes a phone call or a quick walk down the hall to speak in person is more effective.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. Technology for Good Report. All Things D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? But it doesn' t always have to be you asking people to donate. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Recently, Freedom Fone was adapted by two farm radio stations through the African Radio Research Initiative , a 42-month project, the aim of which was to assess the effectiveness and impact of farm radio in many parts of Africa. . At Volta Star, a lot of people called, but a smaller percentage called on a regular basis, Sullivan said.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Others are looking at no demand at all, and with it, no revenue, because their mission involved gathering large groups of people in places like theaters, galleries, and museums. Unless the right people know about, learn about, or feel good about your work, you won’t have the people to work with or the funding to serve them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was very fortunate that in October 2004 in South Africa, there was a meeting of social change market places that was convened, and I met Buzz Schmidt, Founder of GuideStar. They also find it more convenient to share scanned documents through WhatsApp as they use their phones to click pictures of documents.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. And I’ve noticed how different people communicate, how different people interact. So it is grouped in the category of social media because people use it a lot. for a while.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

As nonprofits hone and refine peer to peer fundraising best practices , we are also seeing more more people make philanthropy a part of their everyday personal expression – whether on social networks or in the real world. According to Tom, Diane and the other instructors at Flying Change are very special people.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This time I’ll review some new developments in digital inclusion, smart watches, accessibility technology, apps in Africa, crowdfunding resources, and digital trends to expect in the next five years. And it doesn't have to be another phone interface (a Bluetooth headset does that much better). It doesn't need a camera.

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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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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. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

including finding a small group of people to support you in your process. Its main purpose is to help people really get engaged on the ground in social change. We do that through a model of living room circles, circles in cafes, and circles in yoga studios It's a place for people to actually plug in and get trained to be leaders.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. When you find other people that are into the same thing, it's great, because it just helps to reinforce that and gets things moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries.

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Bloomerang

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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