Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. Today was an example of this. I also got to talk to Pablos because he knew Brian, and ask about ideas that might be worth licensing for social purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

You don’t necessarily have to do this with an online fundraising platform: you can start by using social media to encourage people to interact with and be vocal about your cause. Tap Into the Power of Social Proof. charity: water is excellent at using social proof to encourage people to fundraise on their online platform.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. The great news is how much attention social entrepreneurship is getting. And, the godfather of the social entrepreneurship movement, Muhammad Yunus, received the Nobel Peace Price this year!

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Civic Ventures , a San Francisco nonprofit group, will award 5 Americans over 60, whose work has fostered significant social innovation, $100,000 to further their work. Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh. SFGate had a story yesterday about the Purpose Prize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue.

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Global Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Case in point: Researchers at Stanford have been compiling a “ Master List of Blockchain for Social Good Projects ” that’s already 236 entries long as of this writing! For example, when you put money in a bank account, you’re relying on the bank (a central actor) to keep track of your funds correctly. What is blockchain?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I started with an overview of the Networked Nonprofit and shared some thoughts about social cultures and transparency — referencing the models in our book – The Fortress and The Sponge. Free agents are powerful social change players. Mark gave this wonderful example about the five-dollar airplane.

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