Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Well-informed, constantly connected, and more tech-confident than your aunt Jan, they’re taking on the world’s problems, one online fundraiser at a time. Case in point: In 2014, Noah Wong visited Cambodia and India and discovered kids his own age (and younger) were growing up in prisons. Small Givers, Big Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

Image from Internet Village Motoman project in Ratanakiri Village in Cambodia The above image is from the Ratanakiri Village project in Cambodia. The village is located in a remote region of Cambodia's northeast. There are no highways, no electricity, and villagers life a simple life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. On literacy day, I can’t help but remember the real-life story of something that happened the year I met Kenya. What a photo find!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

She is the head of information systems at the University of Reading in the UK. We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. She spoke about how much our support makes a difference in her life. Meet Shirley Williams. Her blog is called RedGloo. It's her birthday on Friday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2005

Why are we holding a sign that says "Buy Made in Cambodia Clothes?" If you are wearing "Made in Cambodia," feel good because it was probably made by a woman (garment workers are mostly female) in good working conditions and being paid livable wages. Technorati Tags: net2 , cambodia , sweatshopfree

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2007

She earns a monthly wage working for the Sharing Foundation 's Sewing Project, a vocational program run by the Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or a better paying job in Cambodia???s You'll find the information here s garment industry. Call To Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Kabissa, an organization that supports African civil society organizations so they can put information and communication technologies to work for the benefit of the people they serve, has recently published a terrific overview of the promises and and pitfalls of Web2.0 for African Civil Society. What do you do when you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

This is so much what I'd love to see happen in Cambodia - to see a video of daily life in a developing country through the eyes of people who actually live there. The site provides contact information. I'm addicted to Swajana which means ???our our people??? s a collaboration between an Indian and a U.S. video team. churning???)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. 10 will help a Cambodian Youngster Get A Better Life. Information Coping Skills: Turn off the damn computer and go for a walk. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You. Information Coping Skills: How Information Overloaded Are You? Why Is Pharoth Wearing A Foo Camp T-Shirt?

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

People come to your website, first and foremost, to get information, so Content Strategy is relevant for any communications work you do. Using all of the information you captured during the content audit, you can evaluate your content’s quality. Your organizational content should be intentional. Duh, right? Is it up-to-date?

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MAY 31, 2013

The VietNet Information Technology and Communication Center ( VietNet-ICT ) is a Hanoi-based NGO working in information technology and communication. Kopernik technology marketplace is a Bali, Indonesia-based online marketplace of innovative, life-changing technologies designed for the developing world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

   He has reiterated this game over and over for different audiences and circumstances and I've remixed the game for filmmakers and even took it to Cambodia.  Scenario Cards:   I love this twist - these are the real life examples that get at issues of adoption, information overload, loosing control, etc. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Thanks so much to Robin Reagler coming up with the idea for Michele Martin for passing along the information to me. Transitions Cambodia : Helps many girls being trafficked throughout the southeast Asia area. They teach them life skills and educate them to be self-sufficient. Suggested by Kare. They use a transitional home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

With Salesforce record types, staff can store relevant information about each of these contacts while allowing them to change over time — all without losing data from the contact’s previous status. Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. If your organization is based in the UK, the ICT Hub Unmet Needs Fund is now open for applications. All the candidates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Note from Beth: My colleague, John Weeks, is an expat nonprofit techie living and working in Cambodia. We first connected back in 2004 when I started my first blog on Cambodia and was covering the Cambodian Blogosphere for Global Voices. It’s a challenge to get unbiased information about NGOs. It was really interesting.

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MAY 6, 2021

Companies involved in the production of Agent Orange are still facing lawsuits from victims, both US veterans and civilians from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, to this day. . A nti-war wasn’t the only movement that took place in the 1960s.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we really started out with there is that in this movement around ethical sourcing and fair trade, these are all products that are made in the informal sector. We entered into this thinking about, "How do we really help create stronger wage standards in informal markets?" You can find it on the web at worldofgood.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. You Can't Measure Love or Creativity, But These Are Essential Online Community or Network Signs of Life. You can't quantify love as a metric, but it is important sign or signal of life in your online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

There were also long breaks so energy and learning from the formal part of the program could infuse the informal networking of the roughly 200 attendees. Laura White who I first met through the BlogHer community and who did a fantastic job live blogging one of my session on Information Overload at a blogher conference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

They do microenterprise grants, not loans; but we worked with some folks that had been given grants and used those successfully, and basically worked with our friend Moses, who listed the seven businesses in the very beginning, put them online, and helped post the information about them. So, fast-forward a whole year. I grappled with that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

Many people, especially in the up country areas of Thailand, along the Burma border, are not necessarily talking to each other and getting the information about what happens to people's family members especially, when they came home sick, or didn't come home at all. CA: I guess my whole life has been preparing me to do this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. This article summarizes new research from Forrester detailing "The Seven Tenets of the Information Workplace."

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Her insight into “writing and life&# really resonated with me. I’m hoping NFPtweetup Four will be as challenging, fun, informative, and as unexpectedly good as usual. The months after Wilma were some of the most challenging times of my life. Why did I know of your connection Cambodia!

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