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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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Citizen-Powered Response. Direct Content. Indirect Content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

One of the most exciting literacy social enterprises that I've run into is PlanetRead. Founded by Indian Institute of Management professor Brij Kothari, the first concept was same language subtitling. When Brij heard I was going to South India, he insisted I visit his team in Pondicherry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. These include 6 of the top 10 publishers in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Ultimately, this community should have equal access to all of the books that are needed for education, employment and social inclusion. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? Articles 5 and 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. Thinking Big About How To Use Technology For Social Change, But Understand the Challenges.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Here are just a few really good, real life examples: Draft Gratitude relies on their Monthly Giving Team to cover about half of their monthly expenses for the horses. Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. Click To Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

For example, when we asked respondents if they were using a specific cloud-based app (such as Skype), responses were different than when we asked if they used a cloud-based app to perform a function, such as web conferencing. Here are some examples: 62% of global respondents cite cost as an advantage to adopting cloud computing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . The first time open-ended, playful like being on a social network. We knew what was coming.

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JUNE 29, 2010

That can mean, for example, language; it can mean architecture; it can mean food; it can mean artisan work, or artistic work. Can you give an example, or tell a story so that if someone saw it, they'd say, "Oh! Can you give an example, or tell a story so that if someone saw it, they'd say, "Oh! That's what that is.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. Less is more on social media.

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And this also led me to work with a lot of social projects because it happens a lot of times the same, right? I work mainly with nonprofits and social enterprises that want to have a bigger impact, that wants to increase their audiences, and that want to interact with diverse communities. I can see someone said that they work in India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

One famous example of this approach is the affordable licensing and thus wider availability of drugs to combat HIV/AIDS in the developing world, which has literally saved the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. I had met Abbas at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit/World Forum in San Francisco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. BB: What is the path that brought you to this work personally? That to me is the definition of success.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page. Tags: nptech , Social Media , Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Rather than go on, instead, I want to give some examples and highlight the cool factor of how mobile can add some out-of-the-box type thinking to an overall health and/or social marketing-related initiative. Personal PSAs are those shared via mobile and social networks, in addition to being user-generated.). *. Wide Reaching.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

I''m an engineer and social entrepreneur, trying to make the world a better place for people with disabilities, and I rarely step into the role of vocal advocate. The World Blind Union''s lead negotiator pointed out how these provisions would, in practice, stop Bookshare from serving blind people in India. Here is what is happening.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Whether it’s AirBnB , the Sharing Cities Network or Car2Go , the range of sharing economy examples is reaching a tidal flood. What is most exciting about the Sharing Economy is its embrace of a revitalized public square and a rejuvenated commitment to social good. Social Good and the Sharing Economy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The leader, for example, of a religious movement. For example, this idea of using poetry, as the girls are in Zimbabwe, would probably not work in other cultures that don't have that predisposition towards poetry. BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change? They are making progress.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. -Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women.

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