Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This week in San Francisco, technologists and human rights advocates are meeting at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (or RightsCon )to grapple with the realities of how we better manage the human rights implications of new technologies. At WITNESS, we’ve been wrestling with the promise and peril of new communications technologies.

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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. Photo by Be Chandra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. The bootcamps will be an opportunity for the ngos they trained to meet and share knowledge. I’d like to share some of these below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. Write message, add a link, upload a photo, post. Without training, that’s no easy feat. Repeat, Repeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 The photo opportunity in the orphanage was a very low keyed and orderly event. They said thank in Khmer and bowed without being prompted!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most surprising technologies for good. Here is what we've found out about how drone technology is being used to benefit humanity. Precision agriculture is one of the fastest areas of growth for civilian drone technology. What Are Drones, Anyway? Gathering Data.

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