Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. Based on the day of presentations and discussion, it looks like Microsoft’s gives us a stellar example of a CSR program that is at the intersection of the company’s business and social interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex is a great example of a change blogger. Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. I just donated a small amount to his effort!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

Traders brought Hindu-Arabic numerals from India and the Arabian Peninsula into Europe more than a thousand years ago. For example, if you have a repeat attendance rate of 12 percent and your peer events post 20 percent retention, you’re working extra hard to recruit new people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. The last drawing/map is from a peer learning group of Packard Grantees that I am facilitating based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” from Radio Bilingue. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Radio Bilingue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. Games examples: Identity and social clicks in high school Globalization - Sim game about you could plounder a developing country Panchatantra - a board game. Games are examples of global citizens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# National Wildlife Federation , for example, is very active on various social networking websites and they immediately appeared in several places on my Jumo page. So What and Who Cares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The group, in collaboration with other impact investors and intermediaries, has developed a set of standards (taxonomy) that would facilitate comparisons of financial, operational, and impact data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

In fact, just last month, I took it to India. Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. For example, everyone who works on ocean issues was on the same team. Each of the six large teams divided again into tables of 10.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

We are already seeing this "constructive disruption" of traditional nonprofit business, delivery, information, and networking models already under way, as the upcoming examples illustrate. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

We are already seeing this "constructive disruption" of traditional nonprofit business, delivery, information, and networking models already under way, as the upcoming examples illustrate. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. I did a pre-survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Dr. Mani holds an annual Heart Kids Blogathon on Valentine's Day to raise money for heart surgeries for poor kids from rural India. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. What about a gift in their honor to celebrate the special day. Is someone you know training to run a marathon for charity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Note from Beth: While I’m facilitating “Networked NGO Workshops” in Delhi for Packard grantees in India, I’ve lined up a few guest posts. When building Fibber, for example, Vacca and his team asked themselves if the answers the players submit could be put to greater use.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. So, for example, we just did a really powerful training in the Philippines, where our regional leaders there hosted a training on a water filter. It's called the Biosand Water Filter. This was what didn't. These were our challenges.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

The organization operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Dominican Republic and India and also has offices in three donor nations: United States, Australia and New Zealand. The efficiency with which Destiny Rescue operates in their organization translates into helping facilitate more and more rescues each year.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

An Example of Causes: Birthday Wish. Jen introduced Causes' Birthday Wish feature as the first example of how the Causes community can use social structures to create value. " Causes facilitates these communities and combines them together, though Jen was quick to differentiate them from a software as a service.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# National Wildlife Federation , for example, is very active on various social networking websites and they immediately appeared in several places on my Jumo page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

For example, Ginna, the Executive Director of the nonprofit Pura Vida Partners , encourages Pura Vida supporters to create a giving circle where everyone comes together to drink Pura Vida coffee and donate $35 each towards scholarships for children living in coffee growing communities. BB: What is your favorite Dining for Women success story?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Dining for Women is a seven-year-old organization that facilitates a network of 130 giving circles across the country. Can you give an example of, "This month the charity was this and those circles combined raised x amount?" Britt Bravo: How many circles are there now? We have taken three trips so far.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

The next area, where Women's Earth Alliance works, is in India , where we learned from our colleagues on the ground that support around creating sustainable agriculture would be the best thing we could do to help. Solome is an example of someone who was able to take this training and really transform entire communities.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

It's a great example of cause marketing, of online collaboration, of social entrepreneurship, and online innovation. DonorsChoose, for example, put out a huge effort to enlist its staff, friends, their friends and families, and beyond - to vote for them, and they made the final 25. AMEX gave away $2.5m

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