Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

That’s me as a Homo floresiensis, It’s what I would have looked like if I lived 95,000 to 17,000 years ago on an island in what is now Southeast Asia. It was a photo booth that took your photo and transformed you in an early human. At the Museum of American History, we visited the First Ladies Exhibit.

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APRIL 24, 2012

We really appreciate these perspectives and, in the next few weeks, we’re featuring two more questions: 1) What is the best way to support a strong NGO sector in underserved countries or regions such as South Asia, the Western Pacific, or Sub-Saharan Africa? Funders: what have you tried in this space?

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

The “ Because I’m A Girl Campaign ” was to draw the world’s attention to educating girls worldwide by getting supporters to “raise their hands” on October 11th.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

For example, we saw that donations to the South Asia Floods (starting August 17) increased after Harvey Floods led the headlines in August 28-20. There may even be evidence that giving spurs more giving. We’ve seen that donations increased to lesser-covered disasters when other similar disasters were covered by the media.

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OCTOBER 25, 2006

Thought folks might be interested in reading the Humaninet blog from Gregg Swanson who will be blogging and uploading photos to the Hnet Flickr account via a satellite connection at a disaster response exercise in Asia put on by ADRA Asia. Blog: [link] Flickr: [link].

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JANUARY 10, 2010

You can learn more about the programs in the video below created by Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman when they traveled with Christina Arnold, Founder of Project Hope, which focuses on anti-trafficking in Southeast Asia. You can learn more from this video that Jonny Goldstein made about her organization).

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

That's Preetam on the right. He is the third person to contribute and the first donor that I've met face-to-face. That's powerful. I've raised some money from my cause from people who are my friends online, but I've never met offline. Why is that? Preetam Rai knows more about Southeast Asian blogs and bloggers than anyone else in the world!

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JANUARY 26, 2008

he is the 20th person from Southeast Asia has told me that they can't donate and have it count towards to the contest because of the lack of PayPal support. And it isn't the just the supporters of the cause from Southeast Asia, I just got an email from Roger Carr who just posted this reminder to his network.

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JUNE 5, 2007

Jonny notes: One of them is this fundraising video for Christina Arnold, who runs a Project Hope International, a nonprofit which works preventing human trafficking in the US and in Southeast Asia. While making the video I was honored to meet Thailand???s condom king???

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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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MAY 7, 2008

I've been on Hi5 , yet another social networking site, that is popular outside the US, particularly in Central America (and Asia). I've been a member for over a year only because my Cambodian colleagues and blogger friends introduced me to it.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

A native speaker will help you translate and coordinate your message so that you know what you’re saying to a 50-year-old consumer in Asia is hitting the right tone, compared with an update for a 15-year-old in Australia. Being chatty and informal, however, is not the same the world over. Use the right platform.

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MAY 6, 2008

Global Voices, South Asia Editor, Mong Palatino, offers this round up of what blogs in the region are reporting, including these eye witness accounts. The photos, videos, and blog reports are giving us vivid citizen accounts. Right now, thousands and thousands of women and children in Myanmar, need help.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

There was even some talk about a barcamp in Southeast Asia. In the video above, Preetam Rai explains why he thinks a barcamp in Southeast Asia would be a great opportunity. Click To Play In addition, many people generously contributed additional items like swag (including lots from Tara Hunt and Chris Messina , founders of barcamp.

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OCTOBER 25, 2005

Some resources that I recently blogged at Cambodia4kids blog, may be of interest here: International Open Source Network : An online comunity of open source advocates working in the Asia-Pacific Region. A case study is also available. Blogs and Development Thinking from the World Bank. Paul Wolfowitz read blogs.).

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JANUARY 15, 2008

It is taking place online with people from all over the world and there is a group on the grown in Southeast Asia (I so wish I could have gone.) The Future of Learning in Networked World is billed as a traveling open space conference.

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AUGUST 13, 2007

We want to bring people together, make easier to discuss what matters for them and stand for freedom of speech everywhere in the world, especially in Eastern Europe and Asia. Tools are localized in Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Thai, Farsi, etc. languages and not just the usual ones, such as English and German.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Via Facebook updates, I learned from Tharum that Preetaim Rai, the Southeast Asia Editor for Global Voices, posts a roundup of protests and prayer vigils in neighboring countries. He points over to a post from Mean Lux in Cambodia and his flickr set.

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DECEMBER 7, 2006

Another project is with the ngo Akshara ( www.aksharacentre.org ) in Bombay which is a women's rights organization known throughout Asia that creates highly visible gender campaigns and works intensively with college youth and slum-dwelling youth. This work provided an income stream as well as helped educate villagers.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Several months ago my colleague Mary Joyce (who I met at the Global Voices Summit in London in 2005 ) and who is now at the Berkman Center pinged me and asked if I knew any digital activists in Southeast Asia. taking place across various social media sites, including Facebook.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

as my path wondered through southeast asia, i found myself on the other-side of the world where the US dollar is the all mighty. He wrote a post called " Unshakeable Activism " where he lets you know that the $10 donation can truly change a child's life in Cambodia. for less that $6.00 little did i know that for less that $2.00

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DECEMBER 31, 2007

I'm planning to write about the economy in Asia and also other issues. He also set up a group on Facebook and he is now asking his over 300 friends to donate through the Global Giving fundraising page. He sent me a message last night with this request: I'm new at this blogging thing. Do you have an word of wisdom for me?

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

The goal: a movement powerful enough to respond to any conservation emergency anywhere swiftly and efficiently, reverse the catastrophic loss of habitats and species and secure the future of wildlife in Africa, Asia and around the world. Social Media Strategy As Design Process.

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JANUARY 29, 2006

How it different in Asia? I've created a book with lots of photos and will do circle style on the rug - the interactive lecture. In Harry's class, there is a large computer and I can put the images in powerpoint: Inquiry questions: How do we celebrate New Year's in America? In Cambodia? Gung Hay Fat Choy - What does it mean? What's your year?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

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APRIL 17, 2008

Transitions Cambodia : Helps many girls being trafficked throughout the southeast Asia area. are an all volunteer organization and making a big difference in the lives of the students and their families and the schools of the indigenous of western Guatemala. Suggested by Kare. founded by James and Athena Pond of Hillsboro, Oregon.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

And, next week, nonprofits and bloggers in Southeast Asia and Cambodia will be gathering for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit. Global NpTech: African Civil Society to Colombia Saidia.Org Blog is gathering stories about Web2.0 and African civil society for Web2 for Dev Nancy White is doing workshops in Colombia. Follow her trail here.

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APRIL 10, 2007

Both Andy and Jonny did an interview with Christina Arnold of Project Hope International who spoke about the root causes of human trafficking in Southeast Asia. The afternoon sessions consisted of a drop-in video skills coaching. We ended up interviewing each other ( Andy , Jonny , and me ).

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. (Watch the video that Preetam Rai took to see the game in action and the video by Thomas Wanhoff to see a report out of the game.).

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JANUARY 27, 2008

" Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia. Philanthropy, Fundraising, Disasters, and Video Good corporate citizenship was highlighted at Davis this past week. Bill Gates gave a speech on " creative capitalism."

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FEBRUARY 9, 2007

It was amazing because the participants spanned the globe - literally - we had representatives from UK, Spain, Denmark, Asia, Austraila, and US. Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. I met with the group last week.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. The back story is here ).

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AUGUST 3, 2008

Orrdinary Life - First hand account of doing global international development work in a remote area in Southeast Asia. Enviroblog blogs about latest science and news on toxins in your food, water, and air, and what government agencies should be doing to protect public health. Amanda Hanley is the editor.

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APRIL 9, 2012

4) Building capacity building infrastructure in underserved areas abroad, such as South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, we’re hoping to learn more about what others do around: 1) The use of intermediaries. 2) Participation in peer learning communities. 3) The use of consultants for capacity building.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. Department of State just funded us to help LGBT groups in Uganda securely capture documentation of abuses against those communities (again, our funders are not responsible for this post).

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JANUARY 24, 2010

We have had contributors from North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and Australia, representing entrepreneurs, staff from large non-profits, activists, enthusiasts, bloggers and more. Recent chats have looked at green entrepreneurship, mobile innovation and building cultures of social entrepreneurship on university campuses.

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