Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I’m excited because that means friends and NGO colleagues in other parts of the world can get the book! ” The lovely pup above is Truman, the dog that Marnie Webb and family rescued from Rocket Dog. These photos are definitely keepers for the Cute Dog Theory Wiki ! New book by @ kanter @ kdpaine amz.to/measure-networ…

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FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2008

AppAfrica is series of international technology conferences and forums for software developers, entrepreneurs, ngo???s Visit the live wiki for more. s and others interested in discussing how web technologies can benefit developing nations. The first event will be held July 31 at Makerere University.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Matt Jung and NGO 2.0 NetSquared (soft) launched our latest project, the Hacker Helper , a wiki that connects social good hackathons with problems that need to be solved. hosted our first NetSquared Camp in China. The amazing Charity:Water shared their digital campaigning best practices with nonprofits in Melbourne.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. It has Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

If you are thinking you want to volunteer your time, Natalie Jesionka has a post on Our World titled " Responding to Burma Crisis " that includes a list of opportunities to travel to the Burmese border and volunteer your time and energy to the underground grassroots NGO activity. Dina has also shared a link to a wiki Nargis Help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , effectiveness , npo , ngo , workingsmart I'll be curious to read more of these experiments.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). Mobile phones. Tablets/Touchscreen devices. Voice Recorders. Floppy disks/CD-ROMs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We are on the hunt for more like minded techies and NGO staff interested in pursuing a dialog. Contribute to the Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki and help forge a meaningful and stimulating agenda. Are relief teams better prepared for future crises? What software is ready for use in emergencies today?

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AUGUST 10, 2007

Cultural entrepreneurs are change agents who leverage cultural knowledge and innovation to create thriving economic systems, like Lan Tran , the General Manager of Craft Link , a Vietnamese NGO organization that helps craft producers to improve their livelihoods through craft while helping to revive and promote traditional culture and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We've also started using a wiki for a volunteer research project, and we'll probably expand our use of wikis in the future. The wiki model has great potential for us: since we are always looking to share resources through our website, why not make it easier for the public to contribute great ideas and resources they know about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. It's recently been updated.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2006

They also set up a wiki. She called blogs, wikis and Skype/VoIP, “technology with heart,” tools that allow people to help one another and to, “give real information, in real time, with real voices.” You don’t have to create a nonprofit or NGO. Have monitors for your wikis to clean out spam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work. Sounds like it could be part of a future wiki carnival.?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

There are others, including e-mail lists, web-based discussion forums, chat rooms, call-in talk shows, and even (to a certain extent) podcasts and wikis. Technorati Tags: CoP2.0 , CP2Web2 , net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit. Blogs are only one type of conversational media tool. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . NGOS in India. This workshop was for the NGO audience. I'm still recovering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

wiki that is looking at the difference between people who grew up with the Internet and those who didn't - and what that all means. I've been interested in the issues around ngo organizational adoption of web2.0 Playing games as a kid gave me an important skill set: the ability to figure out software. One of my favorite Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. You've got to love their logo. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. " Have any to add? Paul Lamb might.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

Based on the underlying theme of women’s empowerment with a focus on education and entrepreneurship, the 70 participants of the Tel Aviv event included representatives of NGOs active in the fields of employment, education, women’s empowerment, consultancy, and tech training from all over Israel.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

Edward offered a few more tips when thinking about IT Strategy: IT Strategy at an NGO is about capacity building and moving the agenda up the strategy pyramid to mission-moving applications. NGOs cannot follow in the footsteps of corporations; we need to stand on their shoulders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). 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 !

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