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Prizes that Power Stories

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Cisco Flip video camera. Cisco Flip video camera. A big cheers to our friends at Creative Commons, Free Range Studios, Wakingstar story consulting, See3 Communications, Escondido Public Library, Global Fund for Women, Lights.Camera.Help., GoToMeeting with 25 seats. Atomic Training All Access yearly subscriptions.

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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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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th. We did very well, and with the Skoll Foundation’s matching support, each gift to our campaign more than doubled its impact.

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TechSoup Global Donor Partner Profile: BetterWorld Telecom

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They supply charities, libraries and foundations with discounted Cisco and Polycom office phones. Taking Advantage Of The California Teleconnect Fund. It also talks about how Betterworld helped the organization use the California Teleconnect Fund (CTF) , which reduced their monthly phone bill in half.

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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

112 participants created Twitter accounts and are tweeting regularly, 1674 videos were posted on YouTube created with FLIP cameras donated by CISCO, and 131 blogs are regularly sharing their stories. Organizations raised almost $125,000 through integrated social media campaigns from donors. 12 training centers have been established.

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You’ve Been Missing Out!

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Retaining donors lets you spend less time and funding on donor acquisition. Effective communication with donors, constituents, and the public is essential to the work nonprofits and charities do. No cancellation fee lets you end it anytime, and you get 50% off Cisco IP phones! So, Communication Is Important.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

E-Mediat is funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) of the United States Department of State with support and in-kind donations from Microsoft, Cisco and craigslist Charitable Fund. I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

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