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The Sahara Desert in Egypt (the hottest desert on earth). What would motivate you to run 150 miles across hottest, driest, windiest, coldest, and sandiest places on Earth? At the end of every day, your legs would be like rubber, and you'd be completely and utterly exhausted. MORE
Youtube blocked access to the offensive video in two of the countries in turmoil, Egypt and Libya , but did not remove the video from its Web site. MORE
When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S.-Muslim Muslim relations. In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries." " A key message was that better relations derive from shared business opportunities. MORE
The shutdown of the Internet in Egypt during the protests and the metering of Internet service by corporations that decides on the speed and consistency of your service, determine whether you can do your work and conduct advocacy and education freely. Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) 2011 is. coming up June 6-7 in New York, and as the content, speakers, and attendees are all. uniquely suited to a large part of your community, they have extended a. MORE
Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt. MORE
Our collection includes children’s books from Scholastic, contemporary books from Arab Scientific Publishers in Lebanon and literary books from the public domain from Kotobarabia in Egypt. MORE
Journalists using social media in Egypt. Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the 2011 Volunteer Management for Nonprofits Conference here in New York. MORE
There's more in the press release, and we will be expanding our efforts in Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria. One of the issues I was exploring on my trip to Africa was the expansion of the use of our Martus software there. When we started working on Martus four years ago, we didn't look too closely at Africa. We assumed that Martus would require PCs and telecommunications that didn't exist there. Times have changed dramatically. Cybercafes are found in quite poor areas. MORE
The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Visualizing Prominent Information Flows during the Tunisia and Egypt Revolutions – This is a very cool visualization from danah boyd pulling together twitter accounts and displaying tweets, reactions, and much more. Too Many Messages and Only One Facebook Page: April 6th Movement in Post-Mubarak Egypt | technosociology – Check out this great guest post by Susannah Vila on the technosociology blog! "This MORE
The political uprisings in Egypt for the past week have sparked the tiresome debate again – can social media create and spread revolution? The truth is that, while social media played a role in getting information out quickly, it was Al Jazeera (a traditional media outlet) that provided mass new coverage and fed it to US newsrooms who then repurposed it. “It's actually been interesting to watch as a case study in the enduring power of traditional media. MORE
This week, several TechSoup Global staffers are participating in Foundation Week in Brussels. This post comes from GuideStar International chair Buzz Schmidt. Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog. MORE
One of the things we’ve noticed lately is people asking about things not in the collection at all — like the chandelier that hangs in our Beaux-Arts Court or the painted ceiling (a design element) in our Egypt Reborn gallery. MORE
The 15-page PDF includes the pros and cons of using Facebook for activism, a step-by-step guide to organizing an activism campaign on Facebook, and examples of campaigns from Burma, Morocco, and Egypt. MORE
As a sponsor of this fundraising run in cooperation with TechSoup Egypt and TechSoup Kenya , TechSoup Global is proud to support SANGONeT and the runners as they make their journey through the Sahara. MORE
And all this is on top of Martus work we're actively engaged with in Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt Our human rights group is active all over the place right now. Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Africa is definitely getting more attention from us. Kristen Cibelli is on her way to Uganda right now. MORE
And even though this game was released a few months ago, the relevance of promoting non-violent revolution is more apparent than ever with the events in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. # By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto. MORE
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event. Many of you contacted me to say that you enjoyed my interview with Kavita Ramdas , the President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women. MORE
In 1989, during a week in the Sinai desert in Egypt, I was invited into a Bedouin compound. By Michael Hoffman, CEO, See3 Communications. It's important that nonprofits understand the world we're entering right now, a world that will fundamentally change how we communicate with our constituents. There were no electric lights or modern appliances. There was no running water. In one corner, however, was a small generator. And that generator powered a television. MORE
Jo, Functional Consultant: It’s hard to pick my favorite session from SXSW, but the highlight was probably hearing Clay Shirky explain why social media is playing a huge role in revolutions in the Middle East: not because it’s helping protesters coordinate in the present, but because it’s been a channel for protest groups to organize and grow stronger for years, long before the recent protests started in Tunisia and Egypt. MORE
A tech guy from Egypt was the standout moment for me so far. I was attending a session organized by the library association, IFLA, and he got up and talked about how Egypt does not have a culture of reading. His point was the 5 million Internet users in Egypt are the people who do read. Tunisia is very interesting this week! MORE
From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. MORE
Mary Joyce in front of her campaign posts during a recent trip to Lagos to set up computer equipment for the OpenNet Initiative in April, 2007 (Photo from her Flickr stream). MORE
05.23.06 | 51 No Comments [link] Confessions+in+Cairo%21%21%21 2006-05-23+19%3A53%3A39 Allan+Benamer Hi all, Stay tuned for some updates later this week on the state of non-profit technology here in Cairo, Egypt. MORE
At See3 we have the pleasure of collaborating with Wendy to help her find a way to document and distribute video from her upcoming concert tour of Egypt and Jordan. People often become doctors because they want to heal people, and by extension, heal the world. Wendy Sternberg left her successful internal medicine practice in Evanston Illinois because she decided she could better heal the world through Genesis at the Crossroads (GATC), an organization she founded. MORE
Egypt I volunteer! The sixth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Desiree Adaway. Desiree is a consultant, strategist, coach, storyteller and explorer. MORE
Social media, particularly, have proven to be powerful and exceedingly important, especially as we watch the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! MORE
Tonight she tagged me in her Facebook post about how support Egyptians march tomorrow online and offline. Here’s the list: ONLINE activism: Tweet with the hashtag #Egypt to the top of the trends. Add the hashtag #Egypt if not already applied. MORE
All of my experiences with the non-profits in Egypt reinforced some long-held notions I have about how small non-profits here in the US should deal with IT. MORE
Namely, while activists use technology to organize, authoritarian regimes use technology to censor information, increase the channels of surveillance on its citizens, or in the extreme case, cut off telecommunications entirely like in Egypt. MORE
We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. MORE
Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. MORE
The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. MORE
Twitter feeds with hashtags like #Egypt and #ArabSpring were stories unfolding by the minute, documenting the revolution and how the world felt about it, in real time. Storytelling can be a powerful tool for good. MORE
” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Women Who Tech Around the World. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. MORE
In her 17 years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns, helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 20,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the 50 United States, in all aspects of development. This post was authored by Declan Murphy, marketing and social media coordinator for Giftworks. MORE
He was inspired when the citizens of Egypt and Tunisia used satellite connections to contact Internet service providers in other countries, when their governments shut down access to the World Wide Web. World Change, by Glennharper Here at NTEN we talk about the power of technology to change the world every day - in part, by allowing unheard voices, information, and numerical data to speak in new and meaningful ways. MORE
And we are working with over 100 art historians with deep knowledge of content stretching from Ancient Egypt to contemporary art in sub-Saharan Africa. Center for the Future of Museums: Khan Academy & Cultural Understanding : Smarthistory at Khan Academy is used by museum visitors, independent learners, professors, teachers and their students. MORE
We saw how Twitter changed information-sharing in 2011 Egypt, after all. The nonprofit sector thrives on a community of rich storytelling. MORE
First up Kenneth Cole - As the protests in Egypt were escalating, and #Egypt and #Cairo began trending on Twitter, Kenneth Cole tweeted: “Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. When startups and corporations do good in the world, everyone loves them. But when their campaigns offend, watch out for the mobs. MORE
This is hard to watch but some of these clips show the incredible motivaiton and courage the people demonstrated to create the change in Egypt. Good Luck to all of them in brining about peace and a better life. Advocacy Strategy MORE
Charity website to increase visibility of small causes - Daily News Egypt : Although there is a constant need for charitable giving, many small organisations struggle to get sufficient funds for their causes. A new website, Fa3elKheirEgypt.com, aims to solve this problem and increase the visibility of small charities to a wider audience MORE
In less than 24 hours, I have had conversations about how to set up the ideal next generation foundation (so we can make helpful suggestions to the Google founders), how to bring digital books to the blind in Egypt, job creation in Cambodia, putting an incredible Paraguayan social entrepreneur's successes into wider distribution, tough political stands with a top politician, helping dyslexic kids, advancing the civil rights of the African-American community in California and more things to boot. MORE
In her sixteen years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns; helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals; and has trained more than 15,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the fifty United States, in all aspects of development. Join GiftWorks and Linda Lysakowski on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 1 p.m. Eastern time for a free fundraising webinar. MORE
In her 17 years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns, helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 20,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the 50 United States, in all aspects of development. This post was authored by Declan Murphy, marketing and social media coordinator for Giftworks. MORE
Egypt Related Topics Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 31, 2011
Tonight she tagged me in her Facebook post about how support Egyptians march tomorrow online and offline. Here’s the list: ONLINE activism: Tweet with the hashtag #Egypt to the top of the trends. Add the hashtag #Egypt if not already applied.
AFP Blog
AUGUST 28, 2013
Charity website to increase visibility of small causes - Daily News Egypt : Although there is a constant need for charitable giving, many small organisations struggle to get sufficient funds for their causes. A new website, Fa3elKheirEgypt.com, aims to solve this problem and increase the visibility of small charities to a wider audience
Network-Centric Advocacy
APRIL 14, 2011
This is hard to watch but some of these clips show the incredible motivaiton and courage the people demonstrated to create the change in Egypt. Good Luck to all of them in brining about peace and a better life. Advocacy Strategy
Amy Sample Ward
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Visualizing Prominent Information Flows during the Tunisia and Egypt Revolutions – This is a very cool visualization from danah boyd pulling together twitter accounts and displaying tweets, reactions, and much more. Too Many Messages and Only One Facebook Page: April 6th Movement in Post-Mubarak Egypt | technosociology – Check out this great guest post by Susannah Vila on the technosociology blog! "This
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2011
As a sponsor of this fundraising run in cooperation with TechSoup Egypt and TechSoup Kenya , TechSoup Global is proud to support SANGONeT and the runners as they make their journey through the Sahara.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
MAY 23, 2006
05.23.06 | 51 No Comments [link] Confessions+in+Cairo%21%21%21 2006-05-23+19%3A53%3A39 Allan+Benamer Hi all, Stay tuned for some updates later this week on the state of non-profit technology here in Cairo, Egypt.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
JUNE 22, 2006
All of my experiences with the non-profits in Egypt reinforced some long-held notions I have about how small non-profits here in the US should deal with IT.
Amy Sample Ward
MARCH 27, 2011
Journalists using social media in Egypt. Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the 2011 Volunteer Management for Nonprofits Conference here in New York.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 16, 2005
A tech guy from Egypt was the standout moment for me so far. I was attending a session organized by the library association, IFLA, and he got up and talked about how Egypt does not have a culture of reading. His point was the 5 million Internet users in Egypt are the people who do read. Tunisia is very interesting this week!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 29, 2011
From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools.
Frogloop
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
First up Kenneth Cole - As the protests in Egypt were escalating, and #Egypt and #Cairo began trending on Twitter, Kenneth Cole tweeted: “Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. When startups and corporations do good in the world, everyone loves them. But when their campaigns offend, watch out for the mobs.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 11, 2013
Our collection includes children’s books from Scholastic, contemporary books from Arab Scientific Publishers in Lebanon and literary books from the public domain from Kotobarabia in Egypt.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 8, 2005
And all this is on top of Martus work we're actively engaged with in Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt Our human rights group is active all over the place right now. Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Africa is definitely getting more attention from us. Kristen Cibelli is on her way to Uganda right now.
Frogloop
JANUARY 30, 2011
The political uprisings in Egypt for the past week have sparked the tiresome debate again – can social media create and spread revolution? The truth is that, while social media played a role in getting information out quickly, it was Al Jazeera (a traditional media outlet) that provided mass new coverage and fed it to US newsrooms who then repurposed it. “It's actually been interesting to watch as a case study in the enduring power of traditional media.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 10, 2004
There's more in the press release, and we will be expanding our efforts in Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria. One of the issues I was exploring on my trip to Africa was the expansion of the use of our Martus software there. When we started working on Martus four years ago, we didn't look too closely at Africa. We assumed that Martus would require PCs and telecommunications that didn't exist there. Times have changed dramatically. Cybercafes are found in quite poor areas.
Tech Soup Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
In her sixteen years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns; helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals; and has trained more than 15,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the fifty United States, in all aspects of development. Join GiftWorks and Linda Lysakowski on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 1 p.m. Eastern time for a free fundraising webinar.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 24, 2012
” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Women Who Tech Around the World. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 24, 2015
One of the things we’ve noticed lately is people asking about things not in the collection at all — like the chandelier that hangs in our Beaux-Arts Court or the painted ceiling (a design element) in our Egypt Reborn gallery.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 26, 2015
We saw how Twitter changed information-sharing in 2011 Egypt, after all. The nonprofit sector thrives on a community of rich storytelling.
Have Fun - Do Good
MARCH 8, 2011
Egypt I volunteer! The sixth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Desiree Adaway. Desiree is a consultant, strategist, coach, storyteller and explorer.
Have Fun - Do Good
APRIL 17, 2008
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event. Many of you contacted me to say that you enjoyed my interview with Kavita Ramdas , the President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women.
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 4, 2010
This week, several TechSoup Global staffers are participating in Foundation Week in Brussels. This post comes from GuideStar International chair Buzz Schmidt. Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog.
Tech Soup Blog
JULY 5, 2012
In her 17 years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns, helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 20,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the 50 United States, in all aspects of development. This post was authored by Declan Murphy, marketing and social media coordinator for Giftworks.
Tech Soup Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2015
The Sahara Desert in Egypt (the hottest desert on earth). What would motivate you to run 150 miles across hottest, driest, windiest, coldest, and sandiest places on Earth? At the end of every day, your legs would be like rubber, and you'd be completely and utterly exhausted.
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 20, 2012
In her 17 years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns, helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 20,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the 50 United States, in all aspects of development. This post was authored by Declan Murphy, marketing and social media coordinator for Giftworks.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Youtube blocked access to the offensive video in two of the countries in turmoil, Egypt and Libya , but did not remove the video from its Web site.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 9, 2008
The 15-page PDF includes the pros and cons of using Facebook for activism, a step-by-step guide to organizing an activism campaign on Facebook, and examples of campaigns from Burma, Morocco, and Egypt.
Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else.
NTEN
JUNE 24, 2011
He was inspired when the citizens of Egypt and Tunisia used satellite connections to contact Internet service providers in other countries, when their governments shut down access to the World Wide Web. World Change, by Glennharper Here at NTEN we talk about the power of technology to change the world every day - in part, by allowing unheard voices, information, and numerical data to speak in new and meaningful ways.
Influence
MAY 17, 2010
When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S.-Muslim Muslim relations. In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries." " A key message was that better relations derive from shared business opportunities.
Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
Twitter feeds with hashtags like #Egypt and #ArabSpring were stories unfolding by the minute, documenting the revolution and how the world felt about it, in real time. Storytelling can be a powerful tool for good.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 28, 2005
In less than 24 hours, I have had conversations about how to set up the ideal next generation foundation (so we can make helpful suggestions to the Google founders), how to bring digital books to the blind in Egypt, job creation in Cambodia, putting an incredible Paraguayan social entrepreneur's successes into wider distribution, tough political stands with a top politician, helping dyslexic kids, advancing the civil rights of the African-American community in California and more things to boot.
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 27, 2011
Social media, particularly, have proven to be powerful and exceedingly important, especially as we watch the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us!
See What's Out There
JUNE 3, 2009
At See3 we have the pleasure of collaborating with Wendy to help her find a way to document and distribute video from her upcoming concert tour of Egypt and Jordan. People often become doctors because they want to heal people, and by extension, heal the world. Wendy Sternberg left her successful internal medicine practice in Evanston Illinois because she decided she could better heal the world through Genesis at the Crossroads (GATC), an organization she founded.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 12, 2014
The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C.
Beaconfire Wire
MARCH 24, 2011
Jo, Functional Consultant: It’s hard to pick my favorite session from SXSW, but the highlight was probably hearing Clay Shirky explain why social media is playing a huge role in revolutions in the Middle East: not because it’s helping protesters coordinate in the present, but because it’s been a channel for protest groups to organize and grow stronger for years, long before the recent protests started in Tunisia and Egypt.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 5, 2009
Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 4, 2011
Namely, while activists use technology to organize, authoritarian regimes use technology to censor information, increase the channels of surveillance on its citizens, or in the extreme case, cut off telecommunications entirely like in Egypt.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 12, 2011
The shutdown of the Internet in Egypt during the protests and the metering of Internet service by corporations that decides on the speed and consistency of your service, determine whether you can do your work and conduct advocacy and education freely. Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) 2011 is. coming up June 6-7 in New York, and as the content, speakers, and attendees are all. uniquely suited to a large part of your community, they have extended a.
NTEN
MARCH 16, 2011
And even though this game was released a few months ago, the relevance of promoting non-violent revolution is more apparent than ever with the events in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. # By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.
Tech Soup Blog
JANUARY 15, 2013
We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 6, 2007
Mary Joyce in front of her campaign posts during a recent trip to Lagos to set up computer equipment for the OpenNet Initiative in April, 2007 (Photo from her Flickr stream).
NTEN
OCTOBER 14, 2010
In 1989, during a week in the Sinai desert in Egypt, I was invited into a Bedouin compound. By Michael Hoffman, CEO, See3 Communications. It's important that nonprofits understand the world we're entering right now, a world that will fundamentally change how we communicate with our constituents. There were no electric lights or modern appliances. There was no running water. In one corner, however, was a small generator. And that generator powered a television.
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