Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector. One of our insights is that so much of social change is about pushing around information. We don’t pick a single area of focus. These formats now underpin the ebook industry of today.

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Change eBook United States Conservancy 100

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Best Use of Interactive Technology – The Tenement Museum – The Tenement Museum needed a system that could collect visitor information for future follow up while making the booking process easy and seamless, both online and onsite. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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Case Study Syria Award Nashville 45

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Best Use of Interactive Technology – The Tenement Museum – The Tenement Museum needed a system that could collect visitor information for future follow up while making the booking process easy and seamless, both online and onsite. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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Case Study Syria Blackbaud API 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Social channels continued to show strong growth over the past 12 months, with top social networks adding more than 135 million new users in the course of 2013. For example, the UN Refugee Agency, encourages all field officers to tell the stories of the refugees they are working with as this recent tweet from Syria illustrates.

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Policy Social Media International News 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. Of course, the infographic alone is not enough – it’s part of a multi-channel campaign. Seems a little edgy?

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Syria Children Channel Campaign 108

Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

One intriguing offer was by an "informed Atheist who is here for answers, support, and planning." David Keyes is very clear that the mission of Movements.org and in fact all of the Advancing Human Rights programs is to empower human rights activists in closed societies like Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea.

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Skills North Korea Iran Russia 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2017

.” Trend watch summarizes key global trends that make this time in history seem uncertain, chaotic, and toxic beginning with online and the rising numbers that exist inside a filter bubble that serves them information, ideas and news (some of it fake!) that serves to confirm what they already think. The result? Rising polarization.

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