Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

chartiy: water is also excellent at using data to enhance narratives, which they do beautifully on the landing page for their current holiday campaign to bring water to families in Cambodia (hint: roll over each tile for a fun animation). In fact, the second person Harrison hired was a designer. How can your organization apply this?

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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. Training Design' Photo by Be Chandra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. This approach to brainstorming and synthesis is based on Design Thinking methods. Does your nonprofit uses participatory design and facilitation at meetings or for trainings? Spectragram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2010

My very first blog was about my trip to Cambodia to bring my son Harry home in February, 2000. I hand coded the html myself! I had outgrown my information design as well as my blogging platform a couple years ago. I really needed a professional web/blog designer! 3129: Total Posts. 7641: Total Comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. Designing an Effective Feedback Loop. There are several issues our nonprofit partners have considered in designing their feedback loops, including the timing and frequency of feedback collection.

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MARCH 8, 2011

She uses her superpowers-her voice, sense of adventure and belief in the transformative power of community-to help organizations design programs that create unrestricted revenue, volunteers and advocates. I have watched Buddhist monks pray at Ta Prohm in Cambodia. Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia Seriously awesome, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

I wrote about some of the challenges about using these laptops in Cambodia (primarily - can't load KhmerOS on them because the screen is too small) and you can' t designate the recipient or the country even. Nonetheless, I decided to make a donation to the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

Creating and designing Web sites to publish student work. Using the Internet for access to experts, other student helpers, and cultural ambassadors. Using desktop videoconferencing. I have a lot more reading and digesting to do, but for starters I wonder what the difference is between a Culturequest and Webquest ?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It has just 20 UK-based staff. I especially like Outlook 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I also learned that one of the design personas was an individual who was therapist who needed to keep a professional wall between her work and clients – much the same issue that educators have in friending students or their parents. We also talked about how circles are different from communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. I studied at Penn State University, working towards a self-designed major in web and multimedia design (when it was just basic HTML and Macromedia Director).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

I did not have a computer backround, so it was difficult in the beginning because I wanted to design and have it look nice but didn't know how do it. Many people in Cambodia are afraid to express their ideas about human rights and other issues. How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. Create content designed to make your fans look awesome: People share content on Facebook, whether it’s a video from your Page or a blog post from your website, because they want to appear entertaining, informed, connected, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. The press release does not mention whether it is going to be possible to designate the recipient!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

He not only picks up the technical part very quickly, but he is enjoying the design and editing process. Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia. Opened in 2000, it provides a new standard of compassionate care for children in Cambodia. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

Image from Internet Village Motoman project in Ratanakiri Village in Cambodia The above image is from the Ratanakiri Village project in Cambodia. The village is located in a remote region of Cambodia's northeast. There are no highways, no electricity, and villagers life a simple life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I was so delighted that I just had take a screencapture for my photo documentation and scrap blog I'm designing on. This will most certainly help word of our campaign reach many new people. Yep, it's working! Thanks Julia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

2, When I adopted my first child from Cambodia, I photographed red baby shoes all over Phnom Penh and Angkor Watt with an idea that I would create an online children's story. For a training in Web design that designed about 7-8 years ago, I created a design exercise called " Make Over the Ugly Barbie Web Site " 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Note from Beth: I missed out on the Olympics in London this year while I was traveling in Cambodia. While the world acclaimed sports event was taking place in London, the Gay Chorus Olympics was taking place in Denver. Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. It’s a dumb question because I know you can. Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject. Then I noticed that Andrew Parker had just tweeted it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are some technical and design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain. More >> Tony started with a short list of nptech bloggers and a very beta design. I need get rid of clutter, revise, and re-organize. Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

For months, I've been tagging urls that I found interesting about Cambodia into delicious with the cambodia tag and checking what else was tagged. The content is not only superb, but his information design skills are pretty sharp too. A while back, I asked Alexandra Samuels to answer this question: why delicious ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Create a question and answer section: Encourage participation by designing an area where users can ask for specific help and information. I also thought about the fantastic work that they are doing in Cambodia . Make things personal: Don't just offer information, offer personal service, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

We've raised $1, 206 to help children in Cambodia. I shared some thoughts about the Causes Birthday application design , and have continued my reflections below. Even though I'm not raising huge dollar amounts, what makes feel great is that small donations go a long way in Cambodia. Notes about application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

I joined the various Burma Facebook groups early on because my colleagues in Cambodia were involved from the beginning and documented some of the activism. I also think some of the problems with the interaction and feature design of Facebook Groups also makes it challenging to help these activists climb the ladder of engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

" Ed Schipul , the session designer, came up with the title. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The first photo of hers from Cambodia was this one of the four monks crossing the street titled Abbey Road. I'm speaking at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

And, next week, nonprofits and bloggers in Southeast Asia and Cambodia will be gathering for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit. Fundraising and Philanthropy There was lots of praise about Amy Luckey of Blueprint Research and Design's recent article called " Grantmaking 2.0: Follow her trail here.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

If you didn’t help Beth win, you can still give $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation online and help kids in Cambodia.) The whole giving competition thing is complicated and I am not sure it’s healthy. There is a mad scramble to get donations in a certain time period. Organizations push on their network, “Give now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2007

I don't want to you annoy you dear readers, but I can't pass up an opportunity to raise some money for the Sharing Foundation to help care for children in Cambodia. Designing the campaign, messaging, and gathering up the content is the hard part. It's important to me. Setting up the Cause is the easy part.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

But, the reality is we’ve gotten carried away – I know I’ve been guilty – with focusing our energy on visual design and functionality. Having strong, strategically designed content will maximize your web presence and provide a larger ROI. Your organizational content should be intentional. Duh, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Whether I'm raising money for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I try to include them in some way. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. Sophie created a flier to sell Cambodian/American flag pins and raised $350 for Sharing Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The foundation's mission is to help bring about shared prosperity and a sustainable future to all ASEAN countries, which comprise Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. It uses a crowd-funding matching system like the famous Kiva.org system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

There are 15 projects in the competition, all with a mission of ending traffiking and slavery, including an entrant from Cambodia. WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe.

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