Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

One of my goals for 2011 is to better track the amount of time I spend on social media posting, planning, etc, and measuring that against actual engagement, as measured by: donations (via special source codes) and engagement (comments, reTweets, etc). Book Tour Sponsors ?. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how?

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Social Media International Interview Examples 211

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Here's how it works: define a word properly, and the site's sponsors will donate the equivalent of ten grains of rice to the UN WFP. Free Rice is linked to a sister site, poverty.com, which disseminates information about world hunger and other issues. To me, this is a really clever application of meaning to addictive gaming.

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Game Congo Hunger Museum 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

It's one of the hardest things to measure, and it's probably one of the hardest things to do. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. He was the first person that we sponsored to our High School Education Program, and he was able to complete his education.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. Take your pick!

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

The way we do that is by asking every single woman around the world to sponsor one woman at a time by sending her $27 a month, along with a letter to start a communication link between the two women. The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 You get her picture. You get her letters.

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International Interview Bosnia Congo 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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Global Fund Interview United States 44