Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. NASSCOM Foundation was set up to support the Indian IT industry’s role in nation building and to promote the underprivileged to help them become self-reliant and productive participants in the country’s progress. Tags: india.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In February 19th, Joel Comm has organized an event called " Tweetathon " on Twitter to promote and sell copies of his new book, Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time and help a nonprofit that supports children in Africa, China, and India. This foundation helps children at risk around the world.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Vijay Talwar defined the differences between and fine lines between cause marketing and corporate social responsibility programs based on his experience working at Nike. Guarav Mishra showed some examples of how mobile technologies were helping to deliver services to the bottom of the pyramid. Tags: india.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan? How about Facebook friends in India? For example, there are many differences between US and UK English. The next step is finding your audience online, or more importantly helping them find you. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Probably not.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The foundation's mission is to “inspire and empower people affected by cancer” by helping find the information, support, and strength they need to fight cancer. The LAF uses its Facebook fan page and Twitter profile as a way to directly connect with cancer survivors on a personal basis and animate the community.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. North York Community uses digital storytelling to help their constituents find healing from immigration experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” Lesson #2: Identify and use high-trafficked #hashtags on Twitter that resonate with your target audience. Flickr Photo by alshepmcr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap. It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that. Radio Bilingue. NodeXL and Marc Smith.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

good to highlight a few examples of its uses and briefly examine its. There are many examples of the benefits of the mobile in emerging and. It is an extraordinary example of one of these tools. countries are examining ways to use mobiles and nonprofits can help to. was used to help find missing political dissidents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've been on Twitter since almost the beginning and have watched charitable giving and fundraising go from the edge to mainstream. Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. . The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter. (See

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Chris Hughes.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. How can we do that? Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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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. We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. For example, everyone who works on ocean issues was on the same team. Plans to re-run the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. I've known him through his " Twitter ant trails " (I'll explain that in a bit). He used the example of the recent NetFlix prize as an example. Modeling the norm.

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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. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube keep many of us connected to a continuous stream of information.

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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. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube keep many of us connected to a continuous stream of information.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is technology for good news from India. Microsoft's new Surface Pro is an example of this type of new type of device. Twitter followers increased dramatically, with 264 percent growth over the past year. You can also link a Pinterest account to a Facebook or Twitter profile. Accessibility.

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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. It always helps me improve practice.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on Twitter as well, but don’t sit on those hands. She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. And these are all very complicated topics sometimes, and so I started researching ways in which communication can help us explain very complex topics in very simple ways.

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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. Before Zamzee, their game Remission, which was designed to help boost treatment adherence in pediatric cancer patients, was distributed for free to hospitals.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

That’s why stories are important, especially if our goal is to build a social movement: stories help us understand and relate to each other. For example, World Press Photo put together this powerful series on life in North Africa, giving an inside perspective not found in headlines, soundbites, or protest clips.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”- There are still some job openings , including a Monetization Director to help Jumo “achieve financial self-sustainability through the development of revenue-generating products.&#

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Twitter at @Scav. The conversation focused largely on the Causes platform itself, along with the editorial and community features built-in to help nonprofits engage donors. An Example of Causes: Birthday Wish. Lady Gaga is a high-profile example of the latter option. He blogs about community management. "Free Data!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

How do they help to address some of the challenges and problems that you just spoke about? 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. We have so much.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on Twitter. I’m going to be listening intently because this is something I need help with. And recently, for the last five years or so, I’ve really moved more into helping people communicate more effectively internally and interpersonally, because that’s where I saw the most need.

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