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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. Make It Fun, Celebrate. I believe strongly that professional learning can be fun and it can be more effective that way. We also gave awards, certificates, and chocolates as well as surprise and humor to keep everyone involved.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Fundación Paraguaya was the country’s first microfinance program and first development NGO. I am having a lot of fun promoting key policies related to competitiveness, corruption and poverty elimination.” And there’s more: Martín is the author of books on economics, development, municipal government, education and even poetry!

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Storymakers 2016 Winners

Tech Soup

Audience Choice Award Winner — Rolling Ridge Riding. Rolling Ridge Riding from Rolling Ridge Riding is our Audience Choice Award winner. We are proud to award a free, one-year Boost subscription (where available) to these winners. Best Use of Humor — The World Is Fun: Do 1 Thing.

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Mobile, Voice-Operated Everything, and Security, Oh My! Top Nonprofit Tech for 2016

Tech Soup

Here's our look at the most interesting and fun things that happened in nonprofit technology this year. The migrant humanitarian crisis has been rocking governments and dominating NGO humanitarian work for the last two years. For more #nptech news, check out part 1 of this blog series. Technology for Good.

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Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them: Interview with The She Spot co-author, Lisa Witter

Have Fun - Do Good

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. Women don't think making fun of other people is funny. And I would say, "I don't think it's funny." That's not what we think is funny.

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Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Hogwash! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it. While direct mail may be declining in some markets since its heyday in the 90s it is still an effective form of direct communication to raise funds and the NGO brand. That’s junk mail, and, yes, it should be eliminated for economic as well as environmental reasons. (6)

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