Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2009

This looks like a fascinating event to take place in South Africa this October: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy. Tags: Events. The group is now hosting a call for papers --due April 30, 2009. I'd love to hear if any of you are planning to attend or submit abstracts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them. CircuitEditor regularly hosts Twitter Chats on the subjects of social change and philanthropy in Africa. 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This morning I had the pleasure (and some anxiety, to be honest) of presenting to the SANGONeT Conference taking place this week and next in South Africa. Tags: presentation data individuals nonprofits research slides social media uk us. I’d also love to hear any questions you have or other ideas you want to share!

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Social Media Roles South Africa Media 175

Wild Apricot

AUGUST 23, 2010

A lively LinkedIn discussion was kicked off when Elizabeth Watkin , program coordinator at Africa Carbon Credit Exchange,asked, “ What makes a good non-profit website? Tags: Non-profit technology Usability nptech Best practices Non-profit Communications websites Accessibility content website. read more ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2010

His idea is straightforward: he believe the Middle East/North Africa region is ripe for values-centered for-profit social enterprises that can both make plenty of money and deliver social benefits. Tags: social entrepreneurs Skoll SWF SWF10 social enterprise.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

LearnAsOne is a charity that works with local partners and communities in Africa to fund schools and support their running costs. Tags: community digital learning africa education. Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Email the Zambia LearnAsOne team. Learn more about LearnAsOne: What is LearnAsOne?

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Zambia Africa Classroom NGO 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2009

But, I think Stevie Wonder is the top person in connections (example, when Stevie dedicated I Just Called to Say I Love You to Nelson Mandela while he was imprisoned, his music was banned in South Africa). Tags: people Emmet. I like their motto about submitting material: "Be nice. Don't steal. Tell the truth.".

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South Africa Africa Wiki Music 100

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

What are you up to right now in Africa? Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. You can find an event to attend on our website TweetsGiving.org , volunteer to host a gratitude party (it’s not too late!),

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

What are you up to right now in Africa? Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. You can find an event to attend on our website TweetsGiving.org , volunteer to host a gratitude party (it’s not too late!),

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 4, 2010

Next year it will be in South Africa. Tags: social entrepreneurs Social Enterprise Alliance socent10 Social Enterprise World Forum social enterprise socent Social innovation. This year's Summit is being held in conjunction with the Social Enterprise World Forum, which was in Australia last year and Scotland the year before that.

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Contest South Africa San Francisco Social 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Six Proposals That Impact Civil Society in Africa looked at the six Net2 attributes and africa location. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Convio API Nptech Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

" Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Bill Gates gave a speech on " creative capitalism."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Running through the hall, I ran into Kristine Pearson of the Freeplay Foundation (hand and solar powered radios for mainly Africa), and heard about her new radio/MP3 player with 32 GB of storage. Tags: WEF social entrepreneurs Davos Schwab Foundation.

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South Africa Bangladesh Norway Africa 165

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

But, what happens after doctors in Africa rave about how successful this or that invention are in their hospital? Tags: social entrepreneurs Rice global health social enterprise Social innovation. Their students actually go into the field, work with local medical professionals, and learn their real problems, their real pain points.

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Global Technology Marketing Kenya 178

Judi Sohn

MARCH 31, 2009

Eric spent 2 weeks in South Africa, then we went right in to Call-on Congress, C3 ’s annual grassroots training and lobby day. Tags: Nonprofit. Isn’t it sad that I only blog here to introduce March and then now, to close it out? What a month. Laini’s Bat Mitzvah is in a month.

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South Africa Cancer United States Africa 100

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

" Tags: roundup africa book bookmarks casestudies data development ebook economy free funding future innovation list microgiving music nonprofits nptech opensource orchestra postalicious report resources socialmedia strategy survey technology trends.

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eBook Web Open Source Bookmarking 108

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 29, 2010

The idea to gather 1 million t-shirts for Africa (yes, that general) was put out there, publicly, and the ball really started rolling – but not in support of the idea. Tags: case studies events 1millionshirts development international mobileactive twitter. Closing remarks, Jason and Panelists.

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Network Case Study Africa Phase 126

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

She had been working in public health in Africa before heading to Stanford. Tags: RtF TED2009 Raising the Floor Bookaccess Bookshare. Although our efforts on RtF are mainly around serving people with disabilities, we are open to thinking more broadly about how these technologies could benefit more people. Thanks, Joy!

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Education Africa Student Journal 100

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

If you’re trying to feed children in Africa, show a photo or clip of those kids. When you send several emails out in a short period of time, you may lose subscribers or even get tagged as a spammer. Images or drawings of your campaign goal: Help your donors envision the end result of your online campaign. A link to donate!

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AFP Blog

JUNE 25, 2007

Blogging catches on in Africa, despite technology limitations » PopMatters | News and Commentary | PopWire:"In a sign that the medium is maturing, Were said that many of the sites saw a surge in traffic from in Kenya in the days after the plane crash.“More Tags: NPtech NPBlogs.

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Africa News Kenya Technology 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running! I don't speak or read Japanese. And if you???re

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Social Network Nptech Tag Network 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Tags: print disabled print disabilities Benetech publishers blind SCCR Bookshare WIPO SCCR20.

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South Africa Copyright Ghana India 150

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

" Tags: roundup 2010 4change applications bookmarks causemarketing challenge community competition competitions facebook free fundraising guide list lists nonprofits nptech postalicious resources socialchange storytelling tools trends volunteering. " Check it out!

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Web Bookmarking Contest Storytelling 126

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Heading Tags. Image Alt Tag. This is because the closer your keyword is to the title tag the more weight it carries with search engines. You won’t always be able to include your keyword at the beginning of the title, but at the very least you should include it within the <title> tag. SEO Friendly URL.

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Beginner Digital Marketing Guide 91

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2009

While they note that their use of social media tools is behind countries like Nigeria, Uganda, or South Africa, there are promising signs that individuals like journalists and students are using such tools to monitor and report on the ongoing elections. One blogger in particular, Patricia Maganu, notes that: read more.

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Botswana Social Media South Africa Nigeria 43

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

I started 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa with the simple goal of working fulltime on Social Actions by July 1st. Tags: socialmedia. Peter Deitz is the man behind Social Actions and here’s is how the $20.09 fundraising campaign started: For the last 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Shipping costs are astronomical, and, depending on the items, it can be far less expensive to check items as excess baggage on flights with travelers coming to Easy Africa. They did not want to bring religious materials to Africa. The “missionaries have ruined the Africa” answer is also another easy out. Bring them the books.

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Literacy Kenya Share Causes 95

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The problem was that her family was very excited about doing something for the holidays that was going to really impact people around the world who were struggling more than they were and that they were really excited about an opportunity they had heard about to buy a goat from Scotland that would be taken to a village or a family in Africa.

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Case Study Studies Fun Giving 114

Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

Representatives from Connecting Up Australia , Frontier Foundation (Taiwan), Hong Kong Council of Social Service , NASSCOM Foundation (India), and NGO Pulse (South Africa) were in attendance. Tags: Digital Divide.

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Asia South Africa Taiwan India 43

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

A group of us touring, studying, and volunteering in Cape Town, South Africa Seriously! Tags: Have Fun Do Good Guest Posts guest. You can find her on twitter @ajlovesya , on facebook , or visit her at allisonj.org Allison Jones, Millennial Leader: How I Have Fun, Do Good How do I have fun and do good?

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Fun South Africa Blogher Blogger 53

Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

12,000 specific geographic locations were coded in 42 Sub-Sahara African countries, 27 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Indonesia, and the Philippines (a selection of Africa-wide projects were also coded). Tags: International News. You can read more about the project on the AidData Blog.

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Map Project Data Indonesia 62

Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2009

While internet connections in the developed world are no longer charged per megabyte or tiered, this is often not the case in Africa, not to mention basic accessibility in more rural areas. Tags: Web Building Web 2.0 A mobile accessible version is forthcoming as well. read more. Tools Web 2.0

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Platform Develop Africa Internet 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

They are using FLIP Cameras and Camtasia editing software to product a series of videos of their deep field work in Africa. The video bloggers Marcus Prior their spokesperson from East Africa. Tags: screencast vlog. Now all I need to find is some additional brilliant examples of nonprofit organizations using FLIP cameras.

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Camtasia Screencast Video Tanzania 56

Judi Sohn

APRIL 3, 2009

Eric spent 2 weeks in March on an assignment in South Africa. Tags: Life. March is our crazy month, and this year was no exception. Call-on Congress was hugely successful this year, and we’re just doing more (but still with less). With everything else and a puppy that still wants lots of attention, I about lost my mind.

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Life South Africa Africa Issue 100

Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

communicates its mission to promote wildlife conservation and sustainable community development projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Tags: Event Multimedia & Graphics Software. Runners-up : Ride for Joy Therapeutic Riding Program , Habitat for Humanity of Orange County.

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