Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Before they head home, they will train the local community and the NGO partner how to use a Flip video and digital camera so update can continue. Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Longer-term, the plan is to become similar to Kiva.org, but for schools. Follow along and connect with the community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I also received a Cambodian Bloggers Summit T-shirt upon my arrival (and a Khmer keyboard from Javier Sola at KhmerOS) Photo from Beth's Flickr Stream. I did not have a minute to do any souvenir shopping, so I very much appreciated that Chantra gave me two t-shirts for the kids. Cambodian Bloggers Summit T-Shirt.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Whether you are a donor partner, nonprofit, library or NGO, or just someone who is interested in TechSoup, we would be delighted to hear from you. We are committed to providing you with relevant, timely content in addition to helping you get the most out of all that TechSoup Global has to offer. LinkedIn Group. TechSoup Blog. SlideShare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story. First, we want to thank every nonprofit and NGO who submitted. This is an example of a community using video to capture the inspiration inherent in its nonprofit mission. Best Photography Winner — Learning Tree Farm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. When I ask an NGO “who are you trying to engage with?”, Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” ” My answer is: ”Don’t ask me, ask your audience.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2008

Flickr Photo. He is now a Program Director for the NGO he works for in Phnom Penh. Mean Lux is a blogger in Cambodia and was one of the organizers of the Cambodia Bloggers Summer last August. I've known Mean Lux through his blog for 3 years, but we got to meet last summer. He just emailed me to let me know that he got a promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath is one of 19 college students being sponsored for college through a program of the Sharing Foundation , an ngo that works directly with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to identify and carry out projects which improve the lives of children. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012. Over the holiday break, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. This book is a gem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. Tharum was disappointed too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2006

The quote provided in the release by Executive Director, Nicolas de Torrenté, encapsulates, I think, why podcasting and blogs are such important tools in a nonprofit or NGO's communication plan: Podcasting provides us with a new tool to inform the public about critical humanitarian issues often ignored by the media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Flickr photo from Carmello. via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement??? is like eating an elephant: it???s s a big job and you???re re not sure where to start." " Steve Bridger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

re not near your Yahoo mailbox, your blog, your flickr account? But that isn't the case for an ngo working a developing country or extremely rural area. People that spend alot of time online begin to take it for granted - this was already the case before Web 2.0, but now new Web 2.0 What do you do when you???re

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

flickr: blogtrepreneur. Providing digital services in a networked way, working in collaboration to do together what cannot be done alone, is the natural evolution of technology use in nonprofits. Nonprofits Act on #Cybersecurity . When I ask them to share their case study to help others avoid the same fate, they refuse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. How does your NGO use technology to support your advocacy and education work? Mlup Baitong???s It is a benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

An interview Mari Velasco, Lorene Staka, and Joanna Eng of the Idealist Photos in flickr The Idealist , a project of Action Without Borders ,connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a better world. Mari Velasco: We have made some recent changes to expand our use of new web tools, but there's always more we could do!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Nancy live blogged Linda Stone's presentation and flickred lots of photos ) I think Annette's points on improving the conference dialogue between ideamakers and toolmakers is something that might be useful at the NTC Conference hosted by N-TEN. Photo Credit: on Flickr by Beth Kanter

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. 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.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Flickr/Photo Sharing, Video, and Games for Change An interesting comparision between photos on flickr and Getty images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. Meet the Fight Hunger Web Team From left: Anna Yl??-Kauttu, Kauttu, Susanne Th??rnqvist,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

Here's the flickr stream. Nancy White is still willing to host a ngo/npo dinner. I'm at the live blogging tutorial and people are introducing themselves and I've noticed some great computer and hand bags. Not many black boring bags at all - colors - pink and green seem to be popular. Look for Jory.(see Dinner is at 6:00 pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! The Summit runs until Saturday and the correspondent reports and notes are being filed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. I'm also an avid photographer too, my flickr stream houses all my images in case you are interested. What did you do while your in Cambodia (and Kenya)?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2006

People want to hear real people’s stories and see photos of the town they are giving to, so she posted stories and had a Flickr photo stream. Sara also had a Flickr account. You don’t have to create a nonprofit or NGO. Work with traditional media and blogs to get the word out about your work. Tips from Sara 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

Lynetter Flickr. This flickr photo made me hit the pause button because of the date, not the content. I've been interested in the issues around ngo organizational adoption of web2.0 That quote comes from a speech that Murdoch gave over two years ago. " and analyzing the evolving thinking about technology adoption issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

So, if you want to follow me - best to click through the flickr stream. This is a similar challenge that ngo staffers may face in the US, but the difference is that a staff person the US is far more likely to own a personal laptop and enjoy an Internet connection (a high speed one) at home or a nearby coffee shop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign. What happens if you don't like the way the personal fundraiser has represented your NGO? In the descriptions, I added the URL to the campaign page. What do you do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Susie Halksworth photo in flickr Susie Halksworth is the Resources Director at AFL (formerly the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre ), a not-for-profit organisation based in Cambridge, focused on advice and ICT projects. What are your most challenging moments as the technical person in your ngo? m not just accidental, I???m

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. Listen First!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. Flickr users started that tradition ten years ago. . ”FB can be a catalyst and lever to tackle wicked problems.” ” In these three ways. Boundless communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

He is interested in NGO activities, including youth leadership and education. I follow his delicious tag stream and enjoy his flickr photos , particularly those depicting South American landscape and culture. When she was done, we all cheered her with a warm ovation. Official Intel Press Release here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She chronicles the program's start up on her personal blog ) She shares why she started her NGO, "The economic situation is far worse in Kenya than China so volunteer teachers were the only option. " Photo from Ali Lowndes on flickr It is so much more alive than a static web site.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2011

If you asked someone in a Polish NGO if they know about or are using the cloud, they probably wouldn't know what you are talking about. I had the chance to visit some Polish NGOs recently to find out more about how they do their IT work. Some NGOs go beyond software as a service (SaaS) solutions by using web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. Today I Cried resigns ! Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design.

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