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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media. Tags: india.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. This year they have a record registration of 1650 delegates from India and other countries from around the world. It will be interesting to compare the perspective from India. Tags: india. Not too late to add some thoughts!).

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MARCH 9, 2010

To enter the contest, readers had to share their " Theory of Change." Megha is a passionate human rights advocate in India and also lawyer. I am a lawyer by profession and presently a student of human rights law in my masters at India. LLM student, NLSIU, Bangalore(Human Rights), India. Tags: contest india.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

I greeted at the airport with a sign that read " Nasscom Leadership India Forum - Miss Kanter." The driven took me to the Grand Hyatt Hotel saying that during the day the traffic is much different. And the Nasscom India Leadership Forum is not different. Tags: india.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples. Tags: india twitter.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I've just returned from a trip to India where there is a different approach to solving complex social problems using social media and the Internet. He told me about their crowd sourcing for social good strategy to find an affordable, and clean energy solution for India's poor population. How can these goals be balanced?

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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 15, 2010

I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. Tags: india. I suggested that social media tools can be valuable in connecting professionals working in a particular field or cluster of NGOS with one another.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.” ” This helped shift the energy and energize.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. Tags: india. I'm still very jet-lagged and adjusting to both the time zone and culture in Mumbai. I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. .

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MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India?

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Tonight I attended a tweet up at the NASSCOM India Leadership Conference with about 30-40 folks from business, social sector, and ngos. David Meerman Scott was the guest of honor. We had experienced Twitter users, including @ netra who famously tweeted for 60 hours straight during the 26/11 Mumbai Terrorist attacks.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

The project comes from Tactical Technology, inspired their info-activism camp in India. The site and film include inspiring info-activism stories from around the world, a set of cards with tool tips and advice.

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JANUARY 9, 2007

I'm addicted to Swajana which means ???our our people??? s a collaboration between an Indian and a U.S. video team. This is so much what I'd love to see happen in Cambodia - to see a video of daily life in a developing country through the eyes of people who actually live there. This week's installment is about Manthan (which means ???churning???)

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JULY 19, 2017

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. Her report touched on the need for sector collaboration, celebrating mistakes and failures, and innovation.

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JUNE 11, 2012

Note from Beth: I have the honor of leading a “Networked NGO Training” in Delhi for grantees of the Packard Foundation and have lined up some guest posts to supplement my reports from India. The Collective Impact of Love guest post by Stefan Lanfer, Barr Foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Mani is a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0 His passion is using the Internet to raise money to provide free heart surgery for young children in India who would otherwise not be able to afford this life saving medical care. Here's the story of one child, Sakthi who was helped by Dr. Mani's efforts.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

7000 kilometres away in India, Haiyya is training the next generation of community organisers. The role and ongoing coaching that accompanies it can lead to further opportunities like being hired in media relations, being accepted to a journalism program or working for a media company.

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JANUARY 2, 2012

I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE. This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US.

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MAY 1, 2012

The participating NGOs include Women’s Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia I’ll be co-training with Kalyani Menon-Sen, a feminist activist, researcher and adult educator based in Delhi, India to deliver sessions on the Networked NGO, networks, and networking with social media.

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JULY 10, 2012

For much of June, I was not posting regularly because I was delivering training in India for Packard Grantees – and I didn’t always have reliable Internet access and I didn’t pre-schedule posts.

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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. The Water is Life project got underway to help children in Kenya last November.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

Previously, she produced Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the US.

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JULY 22, 2009

Other initiatives, like Vote Report India or the Pink Chaddi Campaign , start off with a strong focus on Collaboration around a specific event. In its first iteration, Vote Report India leveraged Co-creation by creating a platform for collectively tracking irregularities in the 2009 Indian elections. However, the focus is on Content.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

At the party, you could get your check swabbed and fill an application for the registry – it took ten minutes and I hope you’ll consider it too – after your read this post below.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

How about Facebook friends in India? Here’s some good tips when your network is global. How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno. Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan? Does that mean your social media is international? Probably not.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

It has also allowed me to highlight some of the really hot areas of the map—like the UK, India, China, US, etc. It has allowed me to proactively reply to folks that may not necessarily want to host an event, but would like to attend one in their area. We had 1000+ events on all 7 continents (yes including Antarctica) and in all 50 states.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

We heard that from Africa, India and Latin America. Heard what people in TechSoup Global were thinking along the way – what they agreed with and what they disagreed with. And here’s what I’m thinking about right now: We need to offer more precise solutions.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. One thing I learned is that is okay to do “real-time translation,&# and to be transparent about.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

He mentioned developments in the technology – like the $35 tablet in India – that are getting many more people who were left out connected. Larry Irving talked about the many ways mobile is bridging the digital divide around the world and helping to deliver poverty reduction programs.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012. I want to learn as much about how networked ways of working are used outside the US context.

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DECEMBER 15, 2005

She posted this about the Menu for Hope , a little fundraiser by food blogger, to help people affected by the earthquake in Northern India and Pakistan. I had the pleasure of sitting next to Dina Mehta , a blogger from Indian and fabulous person. I love seeing how grassroots fundraising translates to blogs.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Mani Sivasubramanian is a heart surgeon using his Internet marketing business to fund heart surgery for under-privileged children in India. I met Dr. Mani via Roger Carr who was one of the core group of bloggers who I enlisted for a "blogger's campaign" component.

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APRIL 2, 2009

By chance this morning, I discovered the blog of my one twitter followers, Sumitroy001 who works with ngos and social media in India. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection. I landed on the syllabus for a course in data visualization at Harvard University.

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JUNE 22, 2011

A board of all babyboomers or Millennials isn’t good either.

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