Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had more time to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. What Are the Biggest Barriers to More Widespread NGO Migration to the Cloud? Find the first and second post in this series online.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. Many NGOs Find Cloud Computing Confusing: Why? Cloud Contradictions in the NGO Sector. How to Fix the Confusion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Today, we are able to offer four different payment methods online and we’re working with different providers to offer the best success rate possible to our donors (>90%). Also, online communication skills are lacking at many NGOs compared with the online marketing skills at e-commerce sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Real-time reporting from nonprofit conferences and events requires an advanced skill set, training, and a lot of practice. According to the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report , 52% of nonprofits worldwide have used social media to report live. During the Event: How to Conduct Live Interviews.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Known as the International City of Peace and Justice, there are more than 160 NGOs in Den Haag working to make the world a better place. And though they were all quite busy running around working on behalf of animals worldwide, they took a moment for a group photo. . HagueDayTrip. This one of donkeys caught my eye.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2013

Maybe they did some good while they were working with a community, but when the organizations left, the communities or groups they helped were unable to “sustain” the program because they were not taught exactly how to sustain it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Just A Little Content To Get Started .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

I traveled with a team of Advisers to conduct an interactive “Tech2Empower” workshop for leaders of anti-trafficking and women’s rights NGOs. Advisers contribute their skills and expertise to provide training and mentoring to help amplify the work of anti-trafficking organizations in Cambodia.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

The pandemic initiated a massive worldwide shift in how and where work gets done, and nonprofit organizations were not spared. And working from home resulted in many employees feeling like they live at work. Virtual workplaces can create a sense of disconnect for those used to working together in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2012

Last month I did a Networked NGO training in Dubai for Pakistan NGOs where I experienced Internet censorship first hand. This week will be our first peer call to follow up from the training which included strategy development and learning best practices for tools like Twitter.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

After the murder of George Floyd, the Foundation made a strong commitment to infuse justice and equity into our work, so we needed to take this step to understand better who we are funding and reaching. I know from being in the NGO world for many years what kind of a burden that can be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

(What a nice tool to use in a training session.). And the next thing I know he invites me to the International NGO Flickr Group. If you want to take a visual trip around the world and see some breath taking photos of the work done in far flung places, spend some time browsing this collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” I’ve been working on this project for more than year. 12 training centers have been established. I told the NGOs were “fabulous.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

If you work for an NGO in another region of the world or have experience delivering capacity building program, I encourage you to join the discussion here. This periodic review pushes us to candidly reflect on what works and what we can do better with our grantmaking. Everyone: What has worked well and what hasn’t?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

Cut down on time spent manually importing and exporting your data to make more room in your calendar for the work that matters most — accelerating progress on your mission. Seventy-six percent of nonprofits say a lack of resources to train employees challenges their adoption of new technology. Hannah Durbin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Training Design' Photo by Be Chandra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm. Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. .” I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. We sat in the hall – two rows – the guests and the Maori.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

I have tested options of scheduled posts, but it doesn’t work that well because you aren’t there to engage with fans. But now it was time to face my Facebook Insights. Taking breaks from work and social media are needed to clear your head, replenish your energy and set new goals. I have a very exciting year ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. What NGOs in Uganda Need. Image 3 : Ezeu / CC BY-SA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. February 27, 2011.

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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. LearnAsOne is a charity that works with local partners and communities in Africa to fund schools and support their running costs. Follow along and connect with the community!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times. Both organizations work in the Caribbean, where sexual minorities face widespread violence, bigotry and marginalization.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Prashant manages the Big Tech program and is an engineer by training.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The event was hosted by the Don Bosco Institute of Technology (DBIT), giving the IT students at the school a chance to hone their professional skills in a real work environment. A representative from each NGO presented his or her project. The students then divided into teams based on their interest in the projects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

003% of referral traffic to Nonprofit Tech for Good comes from Instagram which means very, very few (if any) of our Instagram followers have registered for a free webinar or downloaded our Global NGO Online Technology Report. Without training, that’s no easy feat. The world thanks you and social media needs you.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking provides video and broadcast training to young people. The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. The organization offers therapy, developmental activities, and job training. Environment. About SANGONet.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Keshet provides community and support to LGTBQ Jews, provides Jewish organizations with the knowledge and skills to create spaces where LGBTQ Jewish youth feel seen and valued, and works to advocate for LGBTQ rights nationwide. Your organization does great work. Donate Life America helps Americans easily register to be an organ donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Mukono, Uganda: 2nd Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School & Communit­y. Mukono, Uganda: Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School & Community. Mukono, Uganda: 2nd Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School & Communit­y.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Relief organizations and first-responders are working tirelessly to provide aid to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The staff at TechSoup Global is keeping all those affected by the devastating hurricane in our thoughts as we work to support recovery efforts. TechSoup Japan Disaster Relief Program Launches to Assist Local NGOs.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Unless your nonprofit or NGO has specific adversaries or is being spear phished , the hacking you may encounter is probably less sophisticated and less targeted. We should never assume that all of us working in the sector are well-intentioned. training and termination procedures.

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