Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Laura's Notebook has turned pink for the month of October to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and so has Michelle Martin. Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. I don't even know what it is, but she also posted the question with more details on her blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

For me, meditation is a practice of sitting down for half an hour every morning, or whatever the case is, and practicing awareness. What that means is that sometimes I start seeing things that I wasn't aware of before in myself, like my own motivations for things. Clashing visions of who is chosen and who is not. What's going on here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? Mike Seyfang responded. What is the first step?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

From there, I ended up going to the Burma-Thai border and working with women refugees who had fled the ethnic cleansing under the Burmese dictatorship. That's a great question and it's very true. Those women asked me to be their messenger. I just had to take that chance, and it was a small chance. Or, you have to grow to a demand.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

People care deeply about this issue, but I think asking the hard questions, and looking for outcomes, and looking at root causes is something now that's being considered a lot more seriously. We keep having more and more people come across the Thai-Burma border. Where is the research funding being given?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Currently, WITNESS’ ROI tracking is measured by way of increase in awareness and donations. Awareness includes whether funders are more aware of campaigns/programs. Some questions we tackle with include: What happens when our content is taken out of context or context is simply ignored? Please summarize your ROI.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Tonight, I attended a live panel discussion on the question of whether Technology is Really Good for Human Rights, or not. That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. The question is how can we make it a force for good? Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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