Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

” I attended a fantastic workshop facilitated by Michelle Gislason , Senior Project Director, CompassPoint, called “ How to Fail Spectacularly (and What You Can Learn from It) ” Here’s a few key takeaways and resources. The theme was “Inspired Resilience: How we sustain People, Organizations, and Causes.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours. For example: 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

HRDAG analysis of this information was carried out with the support of the current governments and NGO communities in both these counties. Discovered by chance, these police and prison records told the stories of serious human rights violations from the perspective of the perpetrators.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

This is the story of how a Michigan faith based organization called Hope Endeavors leads significant humanitarian work from a home office. As a part of the "Tech 4 Faith Story of the Month Contest" we invited Faith-Based Organizations to tell us about the great work they are doing. A Story of Two Girls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a mission to serve every NGO on the planet, we are constantly working on faster, more flexible, and relevant ways to do what we do in every corner of the world. We still have much work do to ensure that the NGOs we seek to serve get the most relevant, engaging, and empowering content and services we can provide.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Veronika never really thought that she would wind up at an NGO; she had a vision of working in a skyscraper for a Fortune 500 company. Veronika recalls that on one of her first days with BITS, Executive Director Mark Simpson gave her the organization's TechSoup account login info and said, "Whatever you need, go knock yourself out."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Veronika never really thought that she would wind up at an NGO; she had a vision of working in a skyscraper for a Fortune 500 company. Veronika recalls that on one of her first days with BITS, Executive Director Mark Simpson gave her the organization's TechSoup account login info and said, "Whatever you need, go knock yourself out."

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. b) Story Submission.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Cleveland, Ohio: Sharing Your Story — How to Run an Effective Multi-channel Campaign. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

So if you’re currently struggling to get your story out, and 62% of those who took the survey said they were, then look to your strategic plan. 2016 NGO Online Technology Report. To address this gap in research, this report set out to provide better in- sight into online technology and its use within the global NGO sector.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Taipei, Taiwan: NGO要怎麼搞群眾募資？- 綠盟經驗談. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). Thursday, October 5, 2017. Calgary, Alberta: Evening on Data Ethics. Friday, October 6, 2017.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

But is that the end of the story? He is director of programmes at CTT, which is our TechSoup Global partner in the UK. TechSoup Global has conducted our own international NGO cloud survey across 88 countries and the results will be out in the early fall. Richard Cooper of Charity Technology Trust (CTT) in the U.K.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Boston, Massachusetts: DataBasic Intro Workshop — Learn 3 New Tools for Finding Stories in Data. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Taipei, Taiwan: 民眾、社群與 NGO 的協作：飲水地. San Francisco, California: SFN2's 2015 Meet, Mingle, and Make Merry Holiday Happy Hour! Wednesday, December 9, 2015.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 9, 2006

A leader at your nonprofit or NGO talks about what is going on in the organization and in your field. This is great if your founder, or director, is a strong and inspiring speaker. Example: UNICEF's podcast, "Pakistan's Earthquake: A fifteen-year-old tells her story." podcast nonprofit NGO Be creative!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2006

(My advice to the podcast's producers is to put in some success stories too, or listeners will suffer compassion fatigue after a while and stop listening). Foundations need to see nonprofits and NGO's having a podcast or blog, in addition to traditional communication tools, as part of the nonprofit or NGO's mission.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Peterborough, Ontario: Domains, Branding, and Identity — NGO,CA,ORG, and more. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum — March 3. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Thursday, February 23, 2017. Friday, February 24, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Can you tell me some stories about how your organization has connected people, organizations, and resources to realize change? Mari Velasco: I am originally from Ecuador and have two stories about connection. The key with all of these new web tools is that they help us make our work more collaborative, help our network come alive!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Wednesday, November 30, 2016. Friday, December 2, 2016. Reform Copyright.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2006

This week's Solutionary Woman is Caroline Ticarro-Parker, the Executive Director of Mind on the Media, the nonprofit that sponsors Turn Beauty Inside Out, a campaign to raise awareness about sexist portrayals of girls and women by the media. Please share a success story from your work. beauty girl image media

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 14, 2006

Nancy is also the Executive Director of the nonprofit Dads and Daughters and the author of How To Say It To Girls. In 2002, DADs asked me to become the Executive Director. We get stories from dads, moms and daughters telling us how our website and our Daughters publication have helped them. dad daughter girl women empower

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. They're really visionaries. That's what that is.

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MAY 1, 2023

You are writing a compelling story about how you are helping change the world for the better. Or maybe your nonprofit is actually an NGO based in another country. Potential partners will feel more comfortable to know that the Director of Services for your women’s shelter has a PhD and 10 years of experience in social work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. What's one of your favorite FORGE success stories? He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. It's an empowering and inspirational story about how ultimately an organization doesn't have to create all the changes themselves.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). If you want to follow news and updates and user stories from Instagram, subscribe to their blog. Boundless communities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast. I was at that time working at a wonderful organization called Streetside Stories , which is a literacy arts organization with programming in various Title 1 middle schools in San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. Others may donate.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

David is Senior Director at NetSuite.org , Netsuite’s corporate foundation. Here is David’s story. Early in his nonprofit career, David became the founding director of the Eastmont Computing Center in East Oakland (now called the David Glover Education and Technology Center ). Getting Started in Nonprofit Technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The information gathered by these groups was done so at great risk to themselves and to those whose stories they document, but it remains on paper or in insecure electronic formats. We found that groups working on documentation lack the necessary tools and methods to record and secure information in a systematic and consistent way.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Friday, December 2, 2016. Casey Foundation Data Dive. Europe and UK.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

Can you give an example, or tell a story of a time when you felt like your work had a positive impact? Doesn’t matter if you are the Field Director of a major campaign or a volunteer on your first night of the campaign: you are leading and inspiring someone else that you will interact with, and you need to be aware of the importance of that.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

While direct mail may be declining in some markets since its heyday in the 90s it is still an effective form of direct communication to raise funds and the NGO brand. Cheers, Cristina Fundraising Director, Greenpeace China June 1, 2009 | Cristina San Vicente Ive raised $215,000 for the Sharing Foundation through social networking sites.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

I am a former development and marketing director. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. So this is Snapchat, Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories, content that disappears in 24 hours.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

VivaVideo Pro is a powerful video editor that enables easy trimming and merging of video clips and photos into video stories that can be accentuated with music, stickers, filters, and subtitles. Board Director :: boarddirector.co. Global NGO Technology Report :: techreport.ngo. News & Stories. Stats & Research.

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