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How Save the Children Is Using An Edgy Infographic As Part of A Multi-Channel Campaign for Children in Syria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. The crisis in Syria is now entering year three and the situation is getting worse for children not better. Seems a little edgy?

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Five Social Media Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Tell your NGOs’ story in photo essay format. Thus, your NGO should prioritize sharing your success stories in photo essay format on your website or blog. Photo and Caption via Mercy Corps : Mohammed and Amna Lelayesh fled their home in Syria with their four children over a year ago.

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

Now is the time to send in your nonprofit's story! Share your story. The 2016 TechSoup Symantec Success Story Challenge (the "Challenge"). Visit the Success Stories landing page at [link] to enter your submission. (a) b) Story Submission. A submission form must be submitted for each story submission.

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Human rights workers collect massive amounts of information about abuse that occurs in their countries—the individual stories are compelling, but scientific analysis of the collective data can inspire action. Skoll World Forum Skoll Syria SWF Big Data Harvard Business Review Web Reader human rights SkollWF SWF13 Bookshare'

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Refugee Response: TechSoup's New Online Technology Resource for NGOs Helping Refugees

Tech Soup

That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The project will continue to build on the existing capabilities, tools, and content available to TechSoup and our partners. The situation became severe with unprecedented numbers of people seeking asylum after the Syrian conflict got going.

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Facebook Radically Changed the News Feed – Here’s What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Connection Cafe

Public content from businesses, brands and media has “crowded out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.” How will the News Feed rank public content? But now Facebook is putting an end to almost all organic public content that doesn’t “encourage meaningful interactions between people.”.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. Unfortunately, safeguarding human rights information can’t be distinguished from piracy, if the contents are encrypted. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff.

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