Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. I had a lot of fun with my keynote.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 23, 2014

With help from Beth Kanter, we held a community call open to anyone and were thrilled at the response as many people called in, lots of community members shared their perspectives, questions, and stories (shout outs to Debra Askanase, Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Jereme Bivins!). Check out the long list of champions and support their campaigns!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! They are places where we learn and become something greater than we were.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Streetfootballworld supports a worldwide network of organizations in well over 50 countries.The photo above is of one of their programs in Brazil. Streetfootbalworld is a youth-oriented nonprofit that aims to help and empower disadvantaged youth through playing soccer (otherwise known as football in Germany).

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NTEN

DECEMBER 31, 2014

I came back to Brazil in July, and I am doing a lot based on what I have learned at the NTC. Read more stories from 2014 scholarship recipients about the impact of your donation. It was a big conference with the best content on marketing, development strategy and technology solutions I have been a part of in the USA.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8th.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a little sneak peek into the background of the story. The company first tested the update in Brazil, Canada, Ireland, and Italy. Instagram has stopped showing likes. Some might already know about this. It might have taken some famous Instagrammers by shock. The company is still testing the feature in various other countries.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2016

Since our last storytelling Twitter chat , both the opportunities and challenges in producing a great digital story have increased. More stories flooding our social media airwaves mean that it's increasingly difficult to get a non-visual story heard. Topic : What sort of stories should nonprofits tell? SOUTH AFRICA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

But it is more than the technology, it is also their passion to do good in the world. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November. What other stories, tips, or resources would you add to this post? And it can be a rewarding experience. Youth in Philanthropy. Learning To Give. Youth In Philanthropy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website. The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

One of the major themes of working with the Skoll Foundation is the focus on stories. That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories. Robert Redford is a huge fan of social entrepreneurship, and he really engaged in what we were doing.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But I see many nonprofits who are lazy at telling their story. It’s time for some phone calls to donors to hear their stories. Hungry children in Brazil? It’s a must read for all smart fundraisers who want to raise money the most efficient AND effective way possible. 7 Ways to Build Highly Committed Donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

She quickly became a national figure with regular appearances on talk shows to discuss the problems with public education in Brazil, despite threats from teachers, administrators, and even fellow students. Tell your story across multiple screens. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA. Help Gen Z make or collect stuff.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Boston, Massachusetts: DataBasic Intro Workshop — Learn 3 New Tools for Finding Stories in Data. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Evento De Design De Aplicativos Para Celular. San Francisco, California: SFN2's 2015 Meet, Mingle, and Make Merry Holiday Happy Hour! Wednesday, December 9, 2015. Thursday, December 10, 2015.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

She quickly became a national figure with regular appearances on talk shows to discuss the problems with public education in Brazil, despite threats from teachers, administrators and even fellow students. Tell your story across multiple screens. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA. Help Gen Z make or collect stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

The heads of major information technology companies invited me to attend multiple meetings to discuss the progress they had made as a group in bringing technology to students in Jordan and their desire to replicate that success elsewhere in the Middle East, as well as a major program in Brazil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

About five years ago, Brazil violated American intellectual property agreements by producing an AIDS drug for a fraction of the cost of the American company who developed it. How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights?

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

To get a sense of the complexity involved in connecting these groups to make an impact, take three countries’ unique nonprofit data stories: Organizations have a variety of registration types. In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. And when we say small in the coffee world, we're talking about one or two acres.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

She's the author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and she's going to tell how to use story to change people's ideas and get your idea across. We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. Good stories will tell better than didactic tracks.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Asia is also a good news-bad news story. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things Things are actually going pretty well in Europe. percent, the highest in the world.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We got national television coverage with the announcement of the winner live on our national TV breakfast show – all including the stories of the Little Penguins and why they were at the National Aquarium. In our Penguin of the Month posts we elaborate on the stories of each bird to raise conservation awareness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. We trained them in how to use their cell phones for rapid response, and how to write Op-eds, feature stories, and front line journals. We had the BBC pick up some of those stories, the UN Wire, and The Huffington Post.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. Most of the piece broadcast to millions of Brazilians was about the outrage that we represented Brazils efforts in the worldwide fight against poverty by a spoilt blonde girl.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. Most of the piece broadcast to millions of Brazilians was about the outrage that we represented Brazils efforts in the worldwide fight against poverty by a spoilt blonde girl.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

And I'd see Shape of Water/Diana's Story/Tibetan Nun's Project on November 12 at 3:45 PM, tix $12. DIANA'S STORY (0:06) Dir - Listen Up! Hat tip to Elisa Camahort of Hip and Zen Pen for the story. What's on your plate? Where does it come from? What effects does it have on the environment and your body?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

Britt: What are some of the Grub success stories that you've seen? And so Anne Cooper and Berkeley is a great example for me of the success story, but it's not just in Berkeley, where people might think, "Oh yeah, of course, Berkeley, you know, of course they're doing that in Berkeley." we all shouldn't have access to this food.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. The Guardian story talks about Anonymous taking up the cause of deceased 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons , an alleged gang rape victim who killed herself after she was bullied by her Nova Scotian classmates. There are now 2.4

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

Britt Bravo: What is one of your favorite success stories? Ilyse Hogue: One of my favorite success stories--wow, that's a great question, there are so many. And so there's not a single book or a single movie, but it's really the stories of people's experience wherever you find them, is what I seek out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Her story is so compelling, I’ve already written a blog post about this incredible woman, entitled Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur. The chief negotiators of the Treaty for India (GR Raghavender), Brazil (Kenneth Nobrega), and of course Nigeria (Ruth) all participated. Enough said!

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