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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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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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. A representative from each NGO presented his or her project. The students then divided into teams based on their interest in the projects.

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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

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO. Network assessment.

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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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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. In that regard, we recently got terrific news about our Martus project. and Catherine T.

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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. Matt Jung and NGO 2.0 Wellington, New Zealand: Apps & more to support ethical consumers - net2welly Nov meetup. Event Reports.

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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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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. ” Simon Mainwaring also has an insightful post on this topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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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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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. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath. You can read see the other photos and read the letter in flickr here.

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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. It is one of several projects at TSG that aims to retool our models to achieve maximum impact. 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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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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Taking part in Giving Tuesday can mean many different things—from participating in an organized service project to donating to a nonprofit to smiling at a stranger. Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. Team up with local news. When did Giving Tuesday begin?

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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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AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. You accomplish this by educating the people of that country on all aspects of safe water, and you lead projects that help to improve the quality of the water supply. Wikis/Blogs. You are funded to do this by a US foundation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. It is the biggest digital inclusion project in the U.S.

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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? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. And if you???re

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. Find your local #Tech4Good group. Naples, Florida: Boost Your Nonprofit's Blogging Strategy. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Seven Billion and Counting (Projecting future population is a very uncertain business). Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people. Available to the general public at www.7billionactions.org/data

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out. People were given two angkuns and asked to vote for the project and to sign up if they wanted to help with the project. Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I started GuideStar India as a project of GiveIndia, as there was no single reliable and comprehensive database of non-profits in India. We wanted to equip users with the tools to choose organizations and projects that matched their criteria or decision set, and to facilitate that, we needed to be inclusive.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

If you're inspired after listening to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or reading the edited transcript below, take a browse through FORGE's gallery of projects created by refugee social entrepreneurs. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . Take for example IRIS Business Service voter project or Steria's Education program to get a flavor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

That group used our gap analysis exercise to find an opportunity to give refugees on the move a chance to add value to local communities while maintaining the dignity of earning an income and doing the work they engaged in at home. Mike Radke agreed to share this post about the work. Design for complexity, communicate for simplicity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

We first connected back in 2004 when I started my first blog on Cambodia and was covering the Cambodian Blogosphere for Global Voices. I spent every day for a full year, and I gave away $10 to 365 different projects that I thought were making a difference, somewhere in the world. It’s a challenge to get unbiased information about NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Note from Beth: While I’m facilitating “Networked NGO Workshops” in Delhi for Packard grantees in India, I’ve lined up a few guest posts. It has helped us raise our profile locally… we got a lot of people who were really interested in supporting the agency because we were trying something different,” Nelson says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Some times they go on to form their own nonprofits like Amanda Rose and Manny Hernandez and like Mark Horvath has for his Invisible People and WeAreVisible project. Free agents are also fluent in social media and take advantage of the social media tool set to do everything organizations have always done, but outside of institutional walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

The participants work together in small groups, ask questions and discuss problems, and work together to find solutions and initiate joint projects. The event was organized by Appleseeds Academy , an Israeli NGO that works to reduce social gaps in Israel through the use of tech tools and the development of life skills.

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