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How Nonprofits Can Steward Corporate Donors on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The social media posts that get the most engagement often include strong examples of mission impact, surprising facts, spotlights on special groups like kids and volunteers, or useful tools and resources. During certain moments – such as natural disasters – they quickly pivot planned content to be more contextual and reflect new priorities.

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Counting Deaths in the Rionegro Cemetery

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Guest Beneblog by Kristian Lum When I first started my summer internship at Benetech with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), I learned that my project would involve quantifying the number of deaths and disappearances in the Colombian state of Casanare. And then we went to Colombia.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt. And when those groups get their hands on social media, they do incredibly un-strategic things with them. Tags: guest blogging social media socialnetworking.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

There was never a session in which a person could present challenges and then brainstorm with the whole group potential solutions and create partnerships to take home with them. Tags: professional development. There was never a sense that we were there to be accountable to and supportive of each other. Who's leading that charge?

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Guatemalan Police Archive Finds Evidence in Disappearance Case

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Guest Beneblog by Tamy Guberek (Benetech HRDAG team member from Colombia) There is important news this month from our partners at the Guatemalan National Police Archive, which has worked since 2006 with Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). Photo by Prensa Libre.