Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts. In fact, this may be one of the largest collaborative social media efforts in the nonprofit world. Social media success: collaborate, inform, build, engage. Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts.

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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 design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. The challenges invite social activists and techies to create web-based tools to tackle local issues. or Code for Oakland ). The ReStart Challenges. Image credit: Hackathon, hackNY.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Find your local #Tech4Good group. The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! * Busia, Kenya: Net2 Kenya Subregional Conferences — Kisumu Busia and Kakamega. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. So far we've scheduled events in Kenya and Uganda, and will be adding more cities throughout the fall. Victoria, British Columbia: Collaborate Effectively and Develop Your Work Flow. Feeling overwhelmed? and the globe.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! The NetSquared Victoria team has been investigating tools for online collaboration. Check out the Storify!

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. "Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! * NetSquared East Africa (South) Regional Ambassador's Summit for Local Organizers. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Supporting Encryption and Journalism. . * Want to learn about PCI compliance?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Naples, Florida: Google Drive: Tips and Tricks for Collaboration and Productivity. Los Angeles, California: Using Technology in Local Activism. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Kisumu City, Kenya: Netsquared Safer Internet 2017: Be the Change; Unite for a Better Internet. Monday, March 6, 2017.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. "Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

This session we focused on issues of health data collection--represented by the form shown here, which is a brand-new data collection instrument from Kenya (brought to the group by PATH's David Lubinski). This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. I admit to being a bit envious of the Safaricom M-PESA.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Adobe Creative Cloud also provides online storage and collaboration web services, which includes a new Sync Settings feature that maintains your preference setting across multiple computers. Ushahidi in Kenya has developed a device called a BRCK that addresses frequent Internet and electricity outages in much of the developing world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” ” So over the past several months, we’ve been working with, you know, indigenous architects, the local doctor that’s going to oversee, you know, the opening and the management of the project. So there’s a need. Brian: Yeah.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

I particularly like his pieces “Impact: The Lovechild of Innovation and Collaboration” and Innovation Obsession Disorder. The sharing and collaborative impulse that is hardwired into tech in general and social media in particular amplifies this. But lots of innovation never makes it out of one locale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya. Response was laughter).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

"To us, it's really about collaboration. This was a collaboration among several organizations, A Single Drop, Crabgrass, ProNet Accra, and Women's Earth Alliance. While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. To us, it's really about collaboration.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn. I would never ask that question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

So I actually moved home to Texas and started to work on a local initiative to do some water resource protection and did everything right. If you like the music, it is from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight". You can learn more about Kenya's work and his music by going to sourceconsultinggroup.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We went and had a victory party and then woke up the next day and realized that it didn't really matter because the company that wanted to build had gone to the state legislature to get them to pass a law to undercut the local ordinance that would protect our water. Have you guys ever heard of Freeport-McMoRan? And there wasn't.

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