Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

Flickr Photo by Jacques de Goldfiem Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar last weekend devastating five regions. Global Voices, South Asia Editor, Mong Palatino, offers this round up of what blogs in the region are reporting, including these eye witness accounts. Hundreds of thousands are now homeless. The media reports are horrific.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

" Mean Lux has a set on Flickr here and you can see a photo of his red t-shirt. There's a photo group in flickr too. Update: Just found Preetaim Rai's roundup on Global Voices. I met her in Cambodia last month. JOIN THIS GROUP: [link] Here's a petition you can sign and here's Amnesty International's information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I hope you'll add to the list: Change/Wire Dining for Women Ella Baker Center Echoing Green Genocide Intervention Network Global Fund for Women Global Voices' Rising Voices Google.org Idealist NetSquared NTEN People's Grocery Save Darfur Social Actions Spot.us nonprofit blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. FOKO was created after the TED Global conference: ???Africa The project was funded by Rising Voices , the outreach arm of Global Voices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Wanna was one of the first Cambodian bloggers to leave a comment on my blog and we have gotten to know each other through flickr and our blogs. Here's our first voice conversation back in 2005. Wanna also helped me with my first tooth fairy assignment -- he made a voice recording of the word "tooth" in Khmer.

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MAY 2, 2008

Trista Harris of New Voices in Philanthropy thinks you should purchase goods and services from a local nonprofit. Flickr Photo Credit: Money uploaded by Jennifer R. FinancialAidPodcast suggests paying down your debt, putting it in a savings account, or donating to a charitable organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Via Facebook updates, I learned from Tharum that Preetaim Rai, the Southeast Asia Editor for Global Voices, posts a roundup of protests and prayer vigils in neighboring countries. He points over to a post from Mean Lux in Cambodia and his flickr set.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

GI-NET's blog Global Fund for Women Mission: "The Global Fund for women promotes women's economic security, health, education and leadership." Global Fund for Women's blog Maine Coon Adoptions They rescued and helped us adopt our Maine Coon cat, Dora! We are an open source project, to pioneer 'community funded reporting.'”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. Joan has been an important contributor to these roundups, providing amazing coverage at her blog, The Purple Heart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

I'm excited to finally meet Michaela face-to-face after following her personal blog and flickr stream over three years. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. Human Voice. Peter identified the pros/cons as: Pros. Year round. New Donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago.

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APRIL 22, 2006

For people who aren't near a city where there is an event, two bloggers, Jill and Marilyn , have started Bloggers for Darfur: A Global Online Community Calling for Action to Stop the Genocide in Darfur. Send a Million Voices for Darfur e-card to Bush. Watch this movie from Physicians for Human Rights. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Thousands of photos in flickr (and really good ones). I love conversational keynotes and have ever since I first experienced them during the Global Voices London Summit 2005 and Blogher plenary session in 2005. There were two full-days packed with excellent content and fabulous speakers. Two awesome parties.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Global Voices has issued a statement explaining why they are supporting this Internet strike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

Yes, this sounds dangerous, and yes, there are some dangers involved, but the cloud wants to be spoken to authentically, and authenticity has many competing voices, not a single monolithic tone. Can you release control over message discipline, and empower your organization to speak for itself, from any point of contact?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon. This tool is a simple way to create graphics of inspirational quotes or powerful stats that can then also be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Google+.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

How much do we value bringing global cultures and opinions into our institution? Many museums run outreach programs at a variety of levels of local to global reach. Others produce publications and media for global distribution. Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

An iPhone app called Memento compiles the data from your various disparate personal information repositories such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, and brings them back into a diary format, of all things. He masterfully abstracted meaningful data from the numbers and constructs a picture that pays a deeply personal and loving tribute.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : 1) Measure the effectiveness among 18-45 year olds of event sponsorship and advertising in real-time and 2) Measure this audience’s interest in green issues raised by the global concerts and sponsors. Flickr photo credit: Milica Sekulic by CC Attribution 2.0 Cool Factor : Mobile as a research tool. Wide Reaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 2, 2007

And her Flickr photostream is well worth perusing. Global Voices blogger Jennifer Brea has her own Afri-focused blog here. Malilady, as she calls herself, has created a great resource here. SocioLingo's Mali Blog. Covering all of Africa isn't enough for this prolific writer. This blog helps us see the answer to that. AfricaBeat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Thing is, once you have paid the admin, the cash value of the flickr ‘donation’ barely makes it worthwhile – even for the 5 account max per charity. Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. Am I missing something?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

They’ll be voice- or gesture-controlled. It’s a set of new guidelines that provides sound strategies for establishing nonprofit brands on Facebook, from utilizing cover and profile photos effectively, to evaluating how to tell your story and represent your organizations’ unique voice and mission. Digital Inclusion.

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