Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

Based on the underlying theme of women’s empowerment with a focus on education and entrepreneurship, the 70 participants of the Tel Aviv event included representatives of NGOs active in the fields of employment, education, women’s empowerment, consultancy, and tech training from all over Israel. More Links: YouTube videos: [link] , [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

She told me that she was planning to get a copy of Shel Israel's book herself, but had seen my Tweet leading to this post about the nonprofit book giveaway for Shel Israel's book called Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods. I asked Betsy, why are you doing this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

That's some of the schwag and a copy of Shel Israels's Twitterville that I purchased at last night's #tbash , the launch party for the book. Shel Israel donated three books. And Congrats to Shel Israel on the launch of his book! I also had 17 copies to give away and delighted to meet United Linens and Walter Akana in person!

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. One of PresenTense's core activities is the Global Summer Institute , held in Jerusalem. There are 500 volunteers working for PresenTense each year, mainly from North America and Israel, but also from other places around the globe. So how does this "incubator" work? .

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JUNE 1, 2010

It was a lightning visit of only two days (Sunday and Monday), with a focus on attending the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Summit 2010 (the GRI). James Moody, also from Australia, presented a concept for a Global Social Responsibility license focused on humanitarian applications of patents and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This Foundation Center blog post by Social Impact Exchange is based on a global scan highlighting how data and algorithms are being used in different ways for social good, emerging challenges in the field, and how philanthropy can be and is engaged in this work. Are Small Charities Being Left Out?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Spencer wants to help Stoves for Rwanda leverage matching money from an incentive program being offered by Global Giving called " Give More Get More. " If he can raise an additional $500 to bring his total to $2,500 by December 1st, he'll leverage a matching gift of 30% or little over $800 from Global Giving.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 22, 2013

I attend Sabbath services almost every Saturday morning at Congregation Beth Israel. Fink , Vice President /. General Manager. HMA Public Relations. It is my chance to have at least 90 minutes of down time to reflect on the week that’s passed and look forward to the week ahead. Like this article? Get another! giving Abbie Fink volunteering'

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JANUARY 13, 2011

George Durham, Program Manager, Microsoft Global Community Affairs On January 12th, 2010, a devastating earthquake ripped through the Haitian landscape, literally decimating cities like Leogane, Petit Goave, and much of Port-au-Prince. George Durham is a Program Manager with Microsoft’s Global Community Affairs team.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

as well as the national governments of much of the developed world, robustly practices variants of high-capacity governmental social innovation today, such as the myriad programs countering the global Great Recession. There is also a distinguished history of social innovation in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

There were also presentations about Global Giving and Causecast. I kicked it off with a talk titled " Be a Generous Geek " which talked about the many ways small actions (online and offline) can make a difference, sprinkled with a few stories that were featured in Shel Israel's Twitterville and Chris Brogan's Trust Agents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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. Here's why: I attended and presented at the Indian Leadership Forum in Mumbai on Feb 9-11.

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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. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel). Cool Factor : Mobile as a research tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. At the end of the Global Women's Panel the moderator Georgia Popplewell. I want to thank Carnet Williams and ChipIn for the challenge match! I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. Many small contributions can make a difference!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2006

My colleague Lisa Goldman who covers the Israeli Blogosphere for Global s emailed about a new blog called The Land of Sad Oranges written by a friend named Fayrouz Shaqrawi. Hers is the first blog by a Palestinian-Israel, and I'm sure she's going to offer some unique insights into life in Israel and the West Bank/Palestine.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

He was born two months before Katrina, which sort of crystallized for a lot of people fears about global warming, and also fears about the inadequacies of our government and our systems to respond to needs. It's about Israel and Lebanon and I was like, "I'll definitely do that, I'll definitely do that."

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. It is actually really understandable. and you kind of go through your rebel phase.

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