Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

As I reflect on what Literacy Day means, I can’t help thinking about the origins of my interest in Room to Read as an organization, and one particularly sticky literacy-for-development related issue that came up during that season of my life. They did not want to bring religious materials to Africa. What a photo find!!

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

His stance raises the question: Does being committed to social change require making one less comfortable or resisting being “too comfortable?". Reading about other social activists forces me to examine my own life. “If I’m comfortable, I feel much less urgency to try to change things.”. As we speak, Occupy Wall St. Photo via Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

These fundamental values help children develop their philanthropic characters in life. Of course there are many important life values but these values are essential to philanthropy and transcend across different culture, race and faith. He asked them a question. Lead by Actions. He called fundraising ‘a noble profession’.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. For example, the board member may question why you maintain a particular program that loses money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Photo UgoTrade Blog. " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues.

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JULY 18, 2013

Had to boil it down to simplest tagline: water = life. Here are a few links that feature Azita to hopefully help make up for it: Fast Company feature on Azita ; Azita''s post for Forbes about why now is the best time to find your dream job ; "My Networked Life" video. Q&A Interview Nadira Hira: This question''s from Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. The questions were keyed to when the content was explained. Then he asks one of the multiple-choice questions.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so. But keep the questions coming. But the other question that they have to really think through is, well, what can we do? I think that’s a loaded question. So don’t be shy.

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MARCH 13, 2015

The question is: are you telling them? For the life of me I couldn’t remember. Storytelling is how we teach morals, values and life lessons. We’re great at sharing survivor stories, but what other stories could we be telling about the impact of cancer on someone’s life? I have to admit; my mind tends to wander.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Keep up the great work and please don’t hesitate to come to me with any questions! Essentially, they noticed that mortality rates were decreasing for all age groups except adolescents, particularly in Eastern/Southern Africa. If S/HE raises $3,000, S/HE could qualify for a trip to one of their programs in South Africa!

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Like the Pew Internet & American Life Project , we believe that over the next decade most people will access software applications online using several different types devices rather than depending primarily on tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers. Find the first post in this series online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. Ruby shares her 10 Questions video. Here's how you can participate in 10 Questions. Every time you get a question right the advertisers donate 10 grains of rice. Social Bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? The Nonprofit Tech Blog is asking a question via LinkedIn - "As a donor, if you had one wish for the nonprofit sector, what would it be? Just the Write Click!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. That's the best question! What brought you here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy White answers a question posed by Laura Whitehead " Getting the most from social media for nonprofits: what would you recommend? " Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia. "as part of a LASA Panel she is planning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa. What does it mean to be the Chosen People whether you're the white population in South Africa, or, as a Jew, I was hearing from Hebrew school that we were the Chosen People. Essentially, I came to activism from compassion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. Gremlins like to keep things status quo.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Every display, from the ladies’ church hats to a prize-winning quilt to former Miss Teen Texas photos to artwork brought back from Africa, seemed to be filled with the stories and the lives of the people who had created, contributed, or were featured in them. I never questioned why the museum existed or who it was for.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2009

There were two nonprofit impressions – one “portions of the proceeds” from the bottled water they provided supported clean water in Africa and the second was the opportunity pay a little more to a charity that provided birthday parties for kids that could not afford them. ” That’s a good question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

On Eugene's site, you can see a much better video of the exercise with participants in Africa. He mentioned that he ad done a great deal of research. He was asking his local guide a lot of questions about what was and what wasn't appropriate. He pointed out this plays out differently depending upon the life cycle of the network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We use journalism because it is a very empowering profession, enabling people to become the "question askers" in their societies. BB: Can you talk a little bit about the program, how long it is, what the women learn, and what some of the challenges are for them to make the training happen within their every day life?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

It's a question whose answer eluded me from the day I registered eight months ago through the first few days of the conference this week. It was a broadening, inspirational experience that made me question my own interest and focus, which is so distinctly based in a world that presumes a certain level of education and consumption.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Recently, Freedom Fone was adapted by two farm radio stations through the African Radio Research Initiative , a 42-month project, the aim of which was to assess the effectiveness and impact of farm radio in many parts of Africa. . Listeners could call in to the radio station and leave a message on the IVR system. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger , to contact nonprofits with questions, comments, or requests. You can discuss life, love, and science—although he’s quick to warn that “I become absent-minded during light conversations that do not involve the physical properties of light.”.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Innovation Festival aligns a community of innovators and agitators, bringing to life the future of business and culture with a mix of playfulness and sophistication, captivating keynotes, hands-on workshops, and intimate site visits at the most dynamic studios, startups, and centers of creativity in New York City. South Africa / $250.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

However, SOPA apparently has shoot first, ask questions later provisions. We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. And, in many of these places, we’re helping the activists avoid censorship and surveillance by the government. We do it for human rights groups.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? What difference does a cup of Fair Trade coffee make?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. was designed for Africa and costs more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

So all kinds of things that really helps improve the quality of their life. You're actually improving wages and the quality of life for people who are disenfranchised. The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights. Reem: Good question. How did it change your life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

There is a growing recognition, that personal success is not about solely about making a lot of money, but also giving it to charity as Ariana Huffington points out in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. There are many other examples out there. Fundraising'

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Getting answers from real people: Digital platforms allow users to find and interact with people who have similar work needs and get answers to their questions from real people. The functions that digital platforms can provide include: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Each speaker did an excellent job answering the question, “ What does the future of social look like? He said that Facebook is on a mission to make the world more open and connected. “A fully connected world gives people access to life long learning and economic opportunity. That’s not what happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, I had several "ah ha" moments and found a couple of connections for thinking about social media strategy - especially how we address culture change, social media measurement, ROI and the whole larger question of social media for social good. His rest was greatly disturbed by these questions. Gourma is in Africa.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So ask questions, use that chat box. In fact, we may call on you to answer some questions of ours as well. And so I’m going to ask you some questions throughout the chat and throughout this this talk. So this is my first question for you, and is do you want to reach more diverse communities? So do that. So this is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

However, SOPA apparently has shoot first, ask questions later provisions. We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. And, in many of these places, we’re helping the activists avoid censorship and surveillance by the government. We do it for human rights groups.

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