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Their use of joyful photos of individuals or small groups helps personalize the program descriptions, as does highlighting an employee’s efforts, like those of Margaret Mary Debre, PoP’s Lead WASH Coordinator in Ghana. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great. Natural Resource Defense Council.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

This is the third of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia during my “ homecoming trip.” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia, focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. Part 2 was about the Cambodian social media community.

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MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Photo by Be Chandra. Training Design'

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

This week on the Microsoft Citizenship blog , there's an interesting profile of Concern Worldwide , an NGO that fights poverty in 25 of the poorest countries in the world. Like Concern, Foundation Nepal has field workers in very remote areas with limited Internet access. Photo: Leo Reynolds , CC license.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Instead, we bring over supplies for the Sharing Foundation , mostly in-kind donations of clothing, medicine, or other items that can't be easily acquired or are cheaper in the US. Since I could not visit Cambodia without carrying over some items for the Sharing Foundation, I had a third checked piece of luggage, a portable crib for orphanage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

We not only kept that promise, but our family went on to support various projects in Cambodia through the Sharing Foundation and through the connections I made through my first blog, Cambodia4kids. This is the first of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia. p/N5Kf7LlZpl/.

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MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. 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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story. Its photo story is extremely powerful and highly shareable. First, we want to thank every nonprofit and NGO who submitted. This is an example of a community using video to capture the inspiration inherent in its nonprofit mission.

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MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath is one of 19 college students being sponsored for college through a program of the Sharing Foundation , an ngo that works directly with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to identify and carry out projects which improve the lives of children.

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JANUARY 11, 2008

Flickr Photo. He is now a Program Director for the NGO he works for in Phnom Penh. He's a supporter (in spirit) of the Sharing Foundation's work - they don't use credit cards in Cambodia and so can't use the Global Giving page ). I've known Mean Lux through his blog for 3 years, but we got to meet last summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. Some of those questions are: What are the censorship and free speech concerns around video and photo tools and products? Do you have human rights content on your platform? Sam Gregory.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. Tharum was disappointed too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Photo by Idea Constructor. Not that they thought they would fail, but just didn’t have foundation to scale. The presentation is here. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering. They were not prepared for their success. She also blogged a few thoughts.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

Your website is the foundation upon which your digital communications and fundraising campaigns are built. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” The goal was to draw attention both online and on the ground to expected USDA standards for school snack foods.

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JUNE 30, 2006

The quote provided in the release by Executive Director, Nicolas de Torrenté, encapsulates, I think, why podcasting and blogs are such important tools in a nonprofit or NGO's communication plan: Podcasting provides us with a new tool to inform the public about critical humanitarian issues often ignored by the media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019. 2) Craft a compelling message (behind-the-scenes, a call-to-action, a positive story, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Nancy live blogged Linda Stone's presentation and flickred lots of photos ) I think Annette's points on improving the conference dialogue between ideamakers and toolmakers is something that might be useful at the NTC Conference hosted by N-TEN. Photo Credit: on Flickr by Beth Kanter

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2011

SANGONeT Director, David Barnard (pictured above), will personally join the staff of four South African NGOs as they race through the Sahara. Photo: SANGONet's No Pain No Gain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. What do you do?

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

With a successful photo-essay or multimedia piece, organizations can attract partners, appeal to donors and grantmakers, influence policymakers, and perhaps most importantly, drive a movement. Masi’s images of The Bhopal Medical Appeal were featured on the New York Times Lens Blog and TIME Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Photo by Social Misfits. Storify with Tweets and Photos. One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. They post a photo of the recipient on their Facebook page and tag the donor as a way to say thank you.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The migrant humanitarian crisis has been rocking governments and dominating NGO humanitarian work for the last two years. Among Apple Store's Best Apps for 2016 is Prisma , the free new photo app for iOS and Android. The Greatest Security Threat Is Already Inside Your Office. Technology for Good. Check out the 2016 winners here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

Creativity: How do you keep creative and generate new ideas, both individually and working within an organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. Over the last year we have been building the foundations for a social publishing model – where we curate communities that are passionate about reading and help us create content. Bio: Gautam John is a lawyer with a focus on copyright laws.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

This is a guest post by Eamon Stack, CEO of ENCLUDE , which is TechSoup's NGO partner organization in Ireland. Foundation Nepal: A Case Study. The charity was Foundation Nepal and typical of a mission driven charity, its founders (Nicky and Amber) were the two main movers in the organization.

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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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MAY 4, 2010

The relationships that were built were on a foundation of such mutual respect because, as these women looked at each other from such different lives, they saw the offerings they had for each other and their leadership as women. They're going to work with these teams over the course of the year. To us, it's really about collaboration.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

And for those of you interested in open government data events, have a look at the events calendar that is being updated by the Open Knowledge Foundation. A London-based nonprofit, Open Knowledge Foundation is at the forefront of promoting open knowledge to help citizens and society. are planned.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Squared is a service that enables Instagrammers to print their favorite Instagram photos or convert them into magnets and posters. Snappa is a simple-to-use graphic design tool with a built-in stock photo, illustration, and icons library. Photo Editing. Squared :: squared.one. Ideal for staff and volunteer appreciation.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Squared is a service that enables Instagrammers to print their favorite Instagram photos or convert them into magnets and posters. SnapWidget allows you to display your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram photos in collage format on your website or blog. Paper is a mobile app for organizing notes, photos, and sketches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. Tharum became a celebrity blogger when his blog was featured on the front page of the Cambodia Daily (the photo above was taken during that interview).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Rick Cohen of Nonprofit Quarterly has assembled some interesting predictions on how the nonprofit and NGO sectors will change in 2013. Anything I missed?

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