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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. I’d like to share some of these below.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. Social Media. Cloud Computing.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. One of the leader categories are NGOs. The World Wide Web Turns 25. This 25 th.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2013

Tech Soup

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news out in NGO-land. We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. Last month it was Facebook’s Internet.org initiative to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones for people in developing countries.

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Solutionary Women: Katya Andresen

Have Fun - Do Good

My job is motivating people to give to their favorite charities through www.networkforgood.org – a nonprofit that was started by Yahoo!, AOL and Cisco in the wake of 9/11 with the vision of generating more money to charities online. This ensures a steadier stream of resources for charities. And that’s about it.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. By 2020, Cisco forecasts that there will be 50 billion things connected to the Internet in this way. I hope she's right.

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