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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. It isn't dumb dumb.

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A Guide To Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The 15-page PDF includes the pros and cons of using Facebook for activism, a step-by-step guide to organizing an activism campaign on Facebook, and examples of campaigns from Burma, Morocco, and Egypt. However, deploying Facebook Apps to raise money for social causes is still in its early stages. It is a quick read and very useful.

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Fashion and Passion for Your Cause: Wear it on Your Blog or Profile!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

to support the monks in Burma. on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign and gave some money too. " While technically, I'm probably way over the legal age limit to be included in the Facebook Generation, nonetheless I'm once again wearing one of my one of my favorite causes as fashion on my blog this month.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Dunn's " Money for Nothing, IT for Free " has a post about the importance of considering the total cost of a technology investment even if it is free and some advice for getting started. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is my responsibility to my organization - money, unique knowledge, ? 1-5% are uber activists who raise the money. Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. Do you think you have responsibility that money is donated through your network is well spent?

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Southeast Asia, Social Enterprise Accidental Tour!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As I said to the DDD team, we love to make our money work twice as hard by choosing social enterprises as vendors. Not only do we get outstanding quality and value for our money, we also know that money is supporting a social objective by helping disadvantaged people build assets financially and experientially.

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Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of our longtime Martus partners in Thailand, The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ( ND-Burma ). We have extended Martus capacity building and technical support to ND-Burma since its inception in 2004. Luckily, the hidden notes escaped detection and she was released.

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