Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Through projects that integrated statistical analyses into multidisciplinary human rights work, we engaged in the public debate about human rights violations in Colombia. First, in partnership with Colombian NGO Corporación Punto de Vista, we assessed a methodology for studying conflict-related sexual violence in the country.

International 150

International Guatemala Colombia Analysis 150

Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Colalife: make it real This neat little video is part of Colalife’s submission to Google’s Project 10 to the 100th - a call for ideas to change the world.

Burma 40

Burma Mexico Flickr Bookmarking 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

(Hat tip: Jessica Dheere, Project Director, Social Media Exchange, Beirut) for pointing to this excellent resource - A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism. Before the excellent how-to advice and fantastic case studies, he explains "Why Facebook Isn't a Silver Bullet" in some very clear bullet points.

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Activities Active Activism Facebook 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

Nptech 50

Nptech Slides Summary Tag 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. " from a study by two Australian researchers. Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. was about access and Web 2.0

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Australia Conference Guidelines Comment 56

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There has been a lot of questioning in myself about why it is, and how is this that I'm now studying fiction when there is so much more out there that's "real" to tackle. For example, I started organizing around Burma last year in solidarity with the profoundly nonviolent uprising in Burma. It was really wonderful.

Interview 40

Interview South Africa Iowa India 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We are poised to grow not only Bookshare.org, but all of our projects. The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. Miradi Bookshare.org isn't our only project undergoing significant growth. We've just launched Miradi.

Darfur 100

Darfur Sri Lanka Liberia Colombia 100