Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Ushahidi ( [link] ) allows people to pool information into online crowdmaps with diverse uses—for example, allowing aid workers to see where resources are most needed after a natural disaster. They give community members a very concrete piece of information to take advantage of. All of this is very important.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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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. Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. How can we do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Peter Durand did the graphic recording (read his blog for more information about the process - AlphaChimp Studio). Paula Kahumbu – WildlifeDirect Nairobi, Kenya. Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset. The Audience As Part of the Presentation.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And we called it Project Launch just because we know that when you’re ready, Aaron, to launch that campaign, we want to make sure that we’ve given you all the information to be successful. And so before their case for support was even dry, before they mapped out their gift tables, their leadership team was. . ” .

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The first is our International Strategy Meetings, where we convene our founding women from 26 different countries, who come together and really examine what the local issues are, what are the global trends, what is the work that they can do in partnership, and they really map out their plan and their goals and their work for the coming year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

But I could go on and on, I mean everywhere I went, there were amazing stories, and I kind of feel like now I could open up an atlas, or a map of the United States, and point to anywhere, and go there and find people who are doing this work of really trying to insure that there's healthy food available for everybody.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Ushahidi builds tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. It can be difficult to coordinate a meeting for 7 people across 7 different time zones – so once a year the board meets in Kenya. They’re looking for volunteers.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Via GlobalVoices , information about the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 1 million people have fled the province of North Kivu. From the Ushahidi blog : Welcome to Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, where we are building a platform that crowdsources crisis information. Newsfeed here.).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And also, because I've always been involved with nonprofits, which are about helping other people and trying to make the world a better place, and I've done a lot of career counseling, I'm always trying to give people advice and share information. And it was really easy for me to share that information and link to those places.

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