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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. What I loved about this exercise, is that after Stephanie and I modeled taking photographs and sharing on our Facebook Group or Twitter, participants started to also document digitally. We were able to thoroughly document the exercise here.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the age of monetizing social media through algorithms and paid advertising revenue models, getting two clicks per 100 followers is generous. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. Green Technology. This is on a personal computing level.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish. I always refer aspiring social entrepreneurs to the article when they ask me how they can win a Skoll Award. We can just blow up the old model while striving for the next phase of equilibrium change.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. NPTech Contests and Awards. My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Tech@State – Civil Society 2.0: Reflections on Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started with an overview of the Networked Nonprofit and shared some thoughts about social cultures and transparency — referencing the models in our book – The Fortress and The Sponge. He made a great point that social media expertise isn’t the only thing that free agents bring to a partnership with an NGO.