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MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? How LinkedIn’s New Profile Section Can Help Nonprofits Fundraise, Find the People They Need.

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APRIL 21, 2003

Traditional African craftsmen are starting to sell their crafts to collectors on the other side of the globe thanks to E-Shop Africa. But, unlikely as online coffin sales may seem, the site is specifically targeting people who want that kind of specialised and highly unusual product.

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APRIL 24, 2012

The four-day workshop covered effective practices of networked ngos, including culture change, integrated social media strategy, and tactics. I worked with a group of eight organizations with two staff people from each. So, I’m very interested in this topic and will have a lot more to say once I recover from jet lag.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Many people, organizations, and churches, had responded, and my parents had the role of boxing and bagging many of these entirely random items. Shipping costs are astronomical, and, depending on the items, it can be far less expensive to check items as excess baggage on flights with travelers coming to Easy Africa.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

a new company-wide initiative to create opportunities for 300 million young people around the world over the next three years. The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” Here’s the deal: cloud computing means that people are keeping data in similar formats. Heard what people in TechSoup Global were thinking along the way – what they agreed with and what they disagreed with.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Magic happens when social entrepreneurs, nonprofits leaders, technologists, and young people are brought together for a high energy, creative, and interactive event that exposes everyone to new ideas and stories. I was so happy to hear the story of how the event got started and the beginning of the network from Fernanda Bornhausen Sa.

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MAY 11, 2011

When Cancer Council SA (that’s South Australia, not South Africa) started the Ambassador Project as an experiment in revitalizing volunteerism and community fundraising , jumping in to the social media pond was not even on the agenda. We’re never going to regularly connect people face-to-face … but we can connect digitally.

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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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MARCH 3, 2015

Last month, I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of Ben Parr’s new book, Captivology : The Science of Capturing People’s Attention that is packed with research, insights, and tips about how to capture your audience’s attention. Disruption: Violates people’s expectations to change what they pay attention to.

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JULY 26, 2017

Note from Beth: One of the things that I enjoyed most about IFCAsia was the networking opportunities to connect with other people in the region who share interests. We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

charity:water is known for being an innovator in social fundraising as well as its mission to have clean water. They received $5 million for water-monitoring technology at 4,000 wells across Africa to ensure better maintenance of and access to clean water for more than 1 million people. Paull Young told me later that this was something they (..)

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OCTOBER 31, 2006

UNICEF launched its first interactive video game in Swahili that empowers young people to make good life choices about and prevent HIV. Translating the game into Swahili makes it accessible to East African adolescents and young people,??? Sub-Saharan Africa has been especially hard-hit by the epidemic. ???It The game, called ???Ungefanyaje???

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JULY 10, 2009

The 15 refers to both the fiscal promises made by governments in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development ( ICPD ) and the age of the young people who need these services, who were born that year. The site is in English, Español , Français and Arabic. Check it out, [link]. . . .

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APRIL 18, 2007

There were 150+ submitted nominations and 3,000+ people voted and 21 projects were selected. Addressing Africa???s Strengthening the Social Web in Africa [link]. The Featured Projects will be going on to the NetSquared Conference and have an opportunity to receive cash, tech and consulting resources. Congrats to the list of 21!

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MARCH 8, 2016

It is an outrage that girls account for 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa, and 40% of women on the continent suffer from anemia which results in 20% of maternal deaths. He says,”They are the friendliest, sweetest people you’ll ever meet.”

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. So, stay tuned as I explore internationally training models and networked approaches to capacity building.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

On September 3, I blogged and tweeted about a story about two interesting social media fundraising opportunities in Africa. One of them was charity: water , a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations that had launched a September Birthday campaign. Hat tip Brett Meyer at NTEN ). Facebook ???friends???

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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. Life in Africa.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

If everyone who reads this - YOU - gives just $2, Charity: Water can build an entire water project for a school or hospital in Africa. Once I paid my $2 pledge, I saw the progress report on the campaign - there was over $500 raised so far from 88 people. I realized just $2 from each of my Twitter readers would be $25,000.

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MARCH 2, 2006

Sangonet , an organization that focuses on capacity building with ICT for NGOS in South Africa, recently announced the finalists for the NGO Web awards. There is also a virtual training centre where you can search for case studies from Southern Africa by theme, skills, genre, and other categories. occassionally.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Twitter lists are very easy to create - so you can expect to see many people making Twitter lists and maybe even some large directories of Twitter lists. For example, I was looking for a list of Twitter users from Africa - and after some conversation with Kabissa on Twitter, I found their lists.

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DECEMBER 7, 2006

It was created by Roy Blumenthal , an artist who lives in South Africa with many talents! I gonna pass it out and have people color it in as a party activity! By Roy Blumenthal. This is my pay it forward portrait. I met Roy via the portrait he did for Dave Wallace's web site and communicated via flickr.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. When you have a room with more people with a program lens, it is also important to spread the communications expertise as well. Social Media Strategy As Design Process.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Africa the next Chapter??? The eastern forest of Madagascar is populated by not only lemurs and other wildlife creatures, but also by the Malagasy people whose survival has for centuries depended on the forest. Currently, she is a project manager (design and architecture) for Foko. FOKO was created after the TED Global conference: ???Africa

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JANUARY 16, 2010

, coordinate efforts with volunteers, share information with partners, and collaborate with other tech-based efforts e.g. the people finder at Haitianquake (since merged with Google’s).

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MAY 11, 2009

A group of 30 people chipped in and Leng Sopharath went off to college. I got into social media infused fundraising by accident as an act of reciprocity and human kindness! . You can help out a friend or colleague, help Nedspace reach its rental goals and help send a couple of Cambodians to college and school in Africa.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Daniel Bekele , Africa Director. George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Bilingual and Specific Issues. Nadim Houry , Deputy News Director, Middle East. Minky Wordan , Global Initiatives Director. Liesl Gerntholtz , Women’s Rights. pic.twitter.com/s4COgBXzcK.

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OCTOBER 4, 2006

So, of course I go to the computer because I can always count on my colleagues from Europe, Africa, Asia, or Southeast Asia to be up and around and distract me from my insomnia. So, I bolt awake up very early this morning worrying about my to-do list or rather my not done yet list.

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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. So I tell people that you can do it all and you can have it all. Is it doing anything well?

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. 2) Consult with the bridging organizations as key informants and perhaps engage them in initial convening to form a GRI South Africa network; and. A lot of the ideas resonate with.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. 17% of adult mobile users have distracted by their device and bumped into people. Healthy Mind Platter.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. You can also use it get a better understanding of people’s experience in the room.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

For more on these projects and to meet the people behind them, check out the upcoming Games for Change Festival (April 21-23 & 25), NYC’s largest gaming event and the leading international event for games with impact, bringing together the social change community and game makers. . ” Senate Immersion Module.

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JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. The team at BlitzLocal in Boulder, Colo.

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JUNE 23, 2007

. - although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now.

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OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. t have a clue." and that???s Technology.

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