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Interview with Rob Wu & Public Launch of CauseVox

Amy Sample Ward

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. Our experience in Uganda helped us see how valuable technology and fundraising is to creating change.

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Blog Roundup: Lessons from Kony 2012 Video Campaign

Care2

Last week Frogloop asked readers "Can Viral Videos Really Create Social Change?" “The campaign prompted discussion online and here in the US about KONY, although hardly anyone in Uganda is talking about him. Is that responsible social change? For responsible social change, you need transparency. [If

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: Crowdsourcing Change: The Social Web to Nonprofits. Mukono, Uganda. Kampala, Uganda: Adobe Spark: Storytelling That Matters. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Gulu, Uganda: Adobe Spark Digital Storytelling. Mukono, Uganda.

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Love to Learn Tech Tips in Person? NetSquared Is for You!

Tech Soup

Our chapter leaders believe that we can bridge the digital divide by giving every NGO the tools and skills to accomplish its mission efficiently and effectively. Toronto has scheduled a Pints not Profits social, Victoria is holding its annual NGO Ho Ho party, and the Research Triangle will hold an NPTech Mixer. Mukono, Uganda.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. The next step was for participants to draw another circle draw another big circle with pictures representing how the world might change for the positive. Network assessment.

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Inaugural Text Messaging Competition Selects Non-Profit Winners From Kenya, Uganda, Mexico and Azerbaijan

AFP Blog

Inaugural Text Messaging Competition Selects Non-Profit Winners From Kenya, Uganda, Mexico and Azerbaijan: "The inaugural nGOmobile competition ran for three months from October 2007, and was aimed exclusively at grassroots non-profit Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working for positive social and environmental change.

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Is There a Community of #Tech4Good Activists Waiting for You?

Tech Soup

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. Peterborough, Ontario: Domains, Branding, and Identity — NGO,CA,ORG, and more. Kisumu City, Kenya: Netsquared Safer Internet 2017: Be the Change; Unite for a Better Internet. . ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Friday, February 3, 2017.