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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video.

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New Blog: Forum One Field Notes

Forum One

For those organizations with staff in the field, it's a missed opportunity to not collect stories, photos, video, and audio. The organization is an NGO that provides heath care, education classes, eco-tourism training, and legal counseling to the underserved community. Give it a read at fieldnotes.forumone.com.

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Welcome Joitske!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How can one integrate audio/podcasting and video logging into online conversation effectively? Joistke and I had lots of sandbox time together, along with other participants, that enabled to play with audio (and video) as online conversation. Technorati Tags: nonprofit , development , ict , ngo , nptech , nonprofit

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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More importantly, how can you bring them in beyond being passive listeners or re-tweeters but engage in the discussion? Finally, having just returned from the Middle East working with social media/NGO trainers , how can you create a global back channel so that language isn’t a barrier to learning? That means I need a T.V.

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Doctors without Borders Podcast Creates Connection

Have Fun - Do Good

The quote provided in the release by Executive Director, Nicolas de Torrenté, encapsulates, I think, why podcasting and blogs are such important tools in a nonprofit or NGO's communication plan: Podcasting provides us with a new tool to inform the public about critical humanitarian issues often ignored by the media.

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15+ Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas (and Expert Tips) for 2021

Qgiv

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. Check out this video to learn more: The Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis reached 101% of their fundraising goal on Giving Tuesday 2020 by using Qgiv’s platform. Use videos to keep your donors engaged.