Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This blog seeks to capture the information gathered at the workshop, keep the discussion alive and build momentum." " The Web Is Dead.

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Qgiv

MARCH 5, 2024

What is an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization)? An NGO is a type of nonprofit organized at the local, national, or international level that works independently of any government involvement. This includes civic leagues, social welfare organizations, and local associations of employees. There are over 1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Among the proposed new gTLDs is.NGO.NGO will be the exclusive domain for local and global non-governmental organizations looking to advance their missions or to inspire their communities. Here’s where you – my fellow NGOs and.ORG registrants – come in. As a fellow not-for-profit, we understand the needs and wants of the NGO community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. The process can be daunting — even inexplicable.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

They will tweet constantly and upload their photo-led blog stories every day between May 11-22. You can ask members of the community questions via blog posts, @replies on Twitter and via email (zambia@learnasone.org). Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Follow along and connect with the community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The project kicked off a year ago with a seven-day Train the Trainers intensive in Beirut, Lebanon for the in-country teams who would localize and implement the curriculum for five 3-day workshops that I designed. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media. Read last year’s blog post for more details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’d like to share some of these below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

How to support NGO leaders who want to work with a network mindset but run into obstacles, like their board? Several local leaders who have lived inside of networks will join me, including Annie Leonard / Story of Stuff , Marnie Webb/ TechSoup Global , and Deborah Mehan / Leadership Learning Community. What makes networks successful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Via Twitter, Daniela Papi , who co-founded a NGO called Pepy that supports children in Siem Reap area, introduced me to Yut who was “the best guide in Siem Reap.” But to get the most out of the experience, you need to hire a guide. ”) combined with expert knowledge made this a fantastic experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. Tell us about your blog? Mlup Baitong???s

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Victoria, Canada: Heartbeats & Remarkable: Building a Winning Communications Strategy for Your NGO.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. What should nonprofits do about this?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students. There were a total of 12 NGOs present at the event, including the Maharashtra Dyslexia Association and the Sujaya Foundation , which provides educational services to underprivileged youth.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Paris, France: “Made in Local”- Emploi, croissance, durabilité & si la solution était locale? Check out the blog to keep on top of the gossip from our community. Check out the blog to keep on top of the gossip from our community. Matt Jung and NGO 2.0 Thursday, November 28.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO. Network assessment. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Local connections built through engagement. Organizers in local community own the agenda. She also blogged a few thoughts. As Marnie Webb put it, to participate in this network, you simply has to raise your hand and be willing to meet people in a bar to talk about social media and social change. Hands-off approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

Benefits of Global Blogging: Dinner Companions No Matter Where You Go! It was good to hear first hand stories of their challenges to maintaining a blog and their experiences training young people and others to blog. The Clogger team noted how they really want to see more local journalists or newspapers maintain a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). A good summary of my talk can be found in this blog post from Civil Society Fundraising and this summary. Doing good has never been easier.” unicef Video mit Jesus, Ghandi, Theresa und dir: [link] #IFC2014.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You're reading the TechSoup blog, so you're probably already comfortable with using technology in your work. You can help your tech-shy NGO friends cross the digital divide by bringing them to a nonprofit tech meetup. . ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

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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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts. Team up with local news. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In a recent blog post , I described how HRP statistician Daniel Guzmán’s expert testimony in a breakthrough legal case against two former police officers helped score a remarkable victory in the fight to end impunity in Guatemala. HRP members produced scientifically sound analysis that is advancing the process of legal justice in Guatemala.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

If you are reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the campaign I ran to raise money for Leng Sopharath's college tuition using the ChipIn fundraising widget. Leng Sopharath, February, 2007.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

" In addition, we'll be blogging here, tweeting updates on Twitter , and posting updates to Facebook , so stalk us for links to golden nuggets of tech wisdom. Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. " Local Community Organizers Affinity Group. Lynn Van Housen.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Check out the blog to get a taste of our grassroots community. Taipei, Taiwan: 民眾、社群與 NGO 的協作：飲水地.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

TechSoup Global''s worldwide network of partner NGOs ensures that these validation services are scalable, reliable, and consistent, while being appropriately tailored to the local context.'

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a mission to serve every NGO on the planet, we are constantly working on faster, more flexible, and relevant ways to do what we do in every corner of the world. We’ve also launched a NetSquared Local in Singapore, and are working to include the Philippines and Thailand in the near future. And we’re still at it.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This is the first in a series of blog posts that we'll be doing as part of our new App It Up project called Cool Apps Roundup. In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. The Train the Trainers also included “laptop time&# for participants to write reflections in their blog journals for the project. Some observations from the discussion: 1.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). Sometimes, it’s having the solution use local languages or other appropriate cultural marks. Mobile phones. Tablets/Touchscreen devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Two items grabbed from the NTEN Blog. Lauren-Glenn Davitian's " Be the Media -- Free Speech Unfurled " guest post on NTEN blog. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One thing I have learned working mostly outside of the US is to start a training by honoring a local tradition. I’m always learning as I help others learn. Here’s a couple of reflections from my “trainer’s notebook.”

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