Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits. On the one hand, Deborah Finn is an example of “strong tie,&# a respected colleague that I’ve known for over ten years in the nonprofit technology community. As always, lots of fun to actually see my co-author, Allison Fine , in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. They are hosting the Global CSR track at the Indian Leadership Forum in Mumbai Feb 9-11. I'll be adapting my Social Media Strategy workshop which has traveled to Romania , Australia , and Cambodia. Then onto teaching two workshops.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

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. re seeing less resistance as nonprofits witness the effectiveness of wired fundraisers.

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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 25, 2017

At the beginning of the summer, I taught a master class and workshops with colleague Tharum Bunn from Cambodia at the IFC/Asia. Here are few nonprofit toolkits that can help you adapt this exercise to your nonprofit. Does your nonprofit uses participatory design and facilitation at meetings or for trainings?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2008

The impact of HIV and AIDS is felt by millions of people globally every day, particularly in countries like Cambodia. Follow up for mothers and infants is then carried out through a program administered by another nonprofit. Published by Global Voices bloggers on World Aids Day 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

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. Google announces " Broadcast Your Cause, " a nonprofit channel on YouTube. He also shares the key points of his presentation here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. You must read this post about blogging and low-cost nonprofit professional development. and Katya A. Follow her trail here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. We had to replace one of the speakers and I recommended Michaela.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I am just back from Legal Services Corporation and a keynote on ROI and Nonprofits. I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers. t been able to shake the urgency in Beth Kanter ???s s reports on Twitter. could actually.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers.

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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. That's the only thing missing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. I saw a post about nonprofits and video use here , but not much mention of open source tools. Anyone else out there using Open Source video editing tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

This is the second of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia during my “ homecoming trip.” ” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

I'm a longtime member of the Nonprofit Circuit Riders community. Here's a definition: Circuit riders travel throughout regions of the United States and parts of Europe providing technology assistance to nonprofit organizations. Don't know what that means? As one organization providing such services defines the group: ???Circuit

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

Because it relates to blogging and because part of my extended family is from the Philippines (as well as Cambodia) here goes: By way of Global s Online , a Google Bombing campaign to change the online image of women from the Philippines and take back the keyboards flipina and Philippines. Add the image to the post.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

And that's not all, the Sharing Foundation provides school uniforms (a requirement to enter school) to street kids in Cambodia so they can attend school. 's Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. Nancy White. Alexandra Samuel and Robb Cottingham. Erin Denny (Aka Agent Handy).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. I turned to one of my favorite nonprofit marketing bloggers and colleagues, Marc Sirkin , for some advice and help with the America's Giving Challenge for the Sharing Foundation. Everyday Giving Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

It was updated on 8/17/2022 for National Nonprofit Day. Salesforce.org is humbled to partner with nonprofits around the world to bring awareness to World Day Against Human Trafficking. *This post was originally published on 7/28/17. AnnieCannons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. On that latter point, social media savvy nonprofits will be thinking of strategies and ways to leverage this free agent fundraising - and it gets back to relationship building. to support the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Note from Beth: My colleague, John Weeks, is an expat nonprofit techie living and working in Cambodia. We first connected back in 2004 when I started my first blog on Cambodia and was covering the Cambodian Blogosphere for Global Voices. So you can’t even get a tax break from ‘Give 10’? Did you expect that to happen?

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Global Giving

JULY 12, 2017

Making a short video for your nonprofit can be an exciting experience. I’ve made dozens of videos for nonprofits, all over the world. Here are 11 questions your nonprofit should ask and answer before you sign a contract with a filmmaker: 1. But what if you are shooting in Cambodia, but showing it in the United States?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. Here's a summary of the different viewpoints in the nonprofit sector about it. This is just a sampling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. Here's why: I attended and presented at the Indian Leadership Forum in Mumbai on Feb 9-11.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Lastly, trust your gut instinct and do what you love.

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