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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia.

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You're Not Going To Ask Us To Give You An Outhouse For Your Birthday (1/11)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now thanks to a generous Sharing Foundation donor who responded to our appeal in the holiday newsletter, local builders will build three latrines, bigger and stronger than the ???family Unfortunately they don't have credit cards (that's a problem for some of the potential donors like the bloggers I met in Cambodia - take for example Denith ).

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Cambodia Bloggers: Five Years Later – Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can also see if there is a local charity that you bring items to in your own world travels. Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

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. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog.

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