Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The moderator was the Seemantinee Khot , CEO, Suzlon Foundation. I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. Tags: india. The other speakers Gaurav Mishra , CEO, 20:20 Social, Vijay Talwar, CEO, William J Clinton Organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lavelle Foundation, Bookshare has been able to work with Worth Trust, a nonprofit with offices in Chennai, India. Tags: blind Worth Trust Bookshare Lavelle. She says, “This job has greatly increased my self-esteem. I now feel even I can help people living in America!!”

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MARCH 10, 2010

Last month, I got to attend Ashoka's Tech4Society conference in Hyderabad, India, as a guest writer for the AshokaTech blog. By coincidence, Nasscom (our partner NGO in India) was hosting its annual India Leadership Forum that same week in Mumbai, and several of our partners had staff attending the conference.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

The Schwab Foundation arranges for the social entrepreneurs to stay in the Schatzalp mountain hotel. A few of the more experienced SEs join the Foundation staff in helping the new attendees get the maximum value out of the conference. Although this is my sixth time to Davos for the WEF, the train trip never fails to enchant me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Note from Beth: The Lance Armstrong Foundation , known by its nickname “Livestrong”, provides a network of support for people diagnosed with cancer and their families. The foundation's mission is to “inspire and empower people affected by cancer” by helping find the information, support, and strength they need to fight cancer.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. Tags: Digital Divide Services Tech Planning. He will be live-blogging from the event so watch for more posts to come!

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JANUARY 7, 2008

NussbaumOnDesign One Laptop Per Child Versus Intel--Who Speaks for India and China? BusinessWeek: "At the Consumer Electronic Show this week, the One Laptop Per Child foundation was supposed to make two announcements—the number of computers it sold under the Give One, Get One holiday program and a new olpc machine made jointly with Intel.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. For instance, Shailesh Upadhyay (23, Velore, India) found it difficult to study in the evenings at his home in rural India.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2010

What this all means is that Elliot will be traveling to Hyderabad, India next month to attend and live-blog as AshokaTECH's official blogger for their Tech 4 Society conference and celebration (in partnership with the Lemelson Foundation ). Tags: Acquiring Technology Digital Divide Grants for Technology Staff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

That shortchanges Larry’s background: he was the key leader in the campaign to eliminate smallpox in India, cofounded the Seva Foundation and a couple of high tech companies, and was most recently running Google.org. Tags: WEF Skoll Brilliant social enterprise Waste Concern. A veritable intellectual and social smorgasbord!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Lisa Brummel, SVP, Human Resources, Microsoft; Tom Moran, United Way Loaned Executive; Rajesh Munshi; Xiang Li, Givology; Adnan Mahmud, Jolkona Foundation. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy. Ed Granger-Happ shows off his office server in a carry on bag that disaster relief workers can use to set up IT support in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. Moderator Antony Bugg-Levine from the Rockefeller Foundation got a big laugh when he made the usual polite introductions of one panel’s speakers and summarized by saying, “they have an incredible impact on the world… or maybe they don’t”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. .

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

monitor election results in Mexico and India. However, by equipping youth with donated GPS units and by using the tools and data repositories provided by the OpenStreetMap project, the Map Kibera project has been able to document huge portions of the community, cataloging resources, and providing a foundation for future development work.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels. To learn more about Microsoft's cloud strategy and services, visit www.microsoft.com/cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels. To learn more about Microsoft's cloud strategy and services, visit www.microsoft.com/cloud.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

monitor election results in Mexico and India. However, by equipping youth with donated GPS units and by using the tools and data repositories provided by the OpenStreetMap project, the Map Kibera project has been able to document huge portions of the community, cataloging resources, and providing a foundation for future development work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

StartL, a new education VC fund backed by a number of leading American foundations, will be launching there. We’ve just added our first books in Tamil and Hindi (two national languages of India), and so it was fun to brainstorm about the possibilities. The coolest demo was of a high quality Arabic text-to-speech synthesizer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Organization(s) : The Fair & Lovely Foundation and Hindustan Unilever Limited. Objective : Increase the visibilty and utilization of the Fair & Lovely Foundation’s scholarship program among women and girls in low-income groups in rural and urban India. Tags: guest blogging mobile social media. Wide Reaching.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Chris Hughes Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Tags: nptech , Social Media , Web 2.0 It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”-

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It had hit India. What's interesting about the way the organization is shifting into this place of more of a foundation, and more of that team, and sustainability, is it's giving me the space to build in my own sustainability. Tags: Big Vision Podcast interview. It hit Singapore, overnight while I had been sleeping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Materials submitted by the Joyful Heart Foundation, a charity started by Mariska Hargitay, one of the stars of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” to help victims of sexual assault, were updated by the staff at Pepsi after the submission deadline , which is against the contest rules. Tags: contest.

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