NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

more than 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. This is a “red carpet” event! Pacific time. TAG: #TSDIGS.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, we saw individuals far and wide rally around local and global causes and missions that were important to them. In fact, in 2021, we saw 13% growth in online crowdfunding globally through JustGiving from Blackbaud. Crowdfund your way to a smashing success: Concentrate your focus. Share the impact.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

Verve, a global insight consultancy, released a trends report November 2023 , finding that Gen Z is “pushing against expectations of productivity and polished perfection to embrace a messier, more chaotic style.” Everyone started posting “photo dumps,” something I credit YouTuber and Relatable Girly Emma Chamberlain as popularizing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Species Adoptions from the World Wildlife Fund: Give a gift that helps protect life on Earth. All kits include an adoption certificate, photo, and species information card. NPR Shop: Ideal for the people in your life who are fans of NPR, every purchase supports NPR programming. View Gifts. [ In the UK ]. View Gifts. View Gifts.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This can help you engage a wider global audience while breaking down geographic barriers. Online auctions: Auction off donated items or organization merchandise using a video platform to encourage global participation. GivingTuesday: GivingTuesday is a global philanthropic movement celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving.

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Just this week, Points of Light released its Civic Life Today: A look at American Civic Engagement Amid a Global Pandemic report, which states that: Prior to the pandemic, voting and donations to nonprofits were the primary ways people participated in civic life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

.” In Steve Rubel’s Ad Age post, ” The Revolution Won’t Be Televised; It Will Be Instagrammed ” points out some underlying trends that might make some of the hype less hype: Smartphone use has become pervasive, siting recent research reports from Pew Internet for America Life research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The goal is to collect 4 million actions (photos of hands raised, likes on their Facebook campaign page, etc) and present the collective actions to the United Nations Secretary General and the world donor community urging them to put girls’ education as their priority. The photo above is Leng Sopharath.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

And our Twitter chat was more global than ever before, with people from 20 countries participating! Best Video Winner — Learning to Improvise Can Be Life-Changing. There, we see hearts, bodies, and minds coming to life through improvisation and the creative arts. Its photo story is extremely powerful and highly shareable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2011

It was helpful to know that people want to listen to moving, dramatic stories if they are listening to life stories. Photos or links. So, we know that we can add photos and links to help engage people on our website and we don’t have to worry about not engaging a certain group. Photos or random news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

My absolute favorite, which comes from Katy Grennier, DSIL Global , is the dance off that can be done on a video conference platform. see the photo at the top). Now more than ever we must create a robust workplace culture and stronger relationships to retain our humanness. That is the dance floor. Here’s a list of dance music.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

For each donation, users receive photos, short stories, and explanations of how their dollars are effecting change globally. Organizations can easily share Facebook posts, YouTube videos, and images to bring their campaigns to life. One Today by Google. Pledgeling. Emily Post would be proud.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

As a Bay Area liberal blogger who lives in Oakland , I feel like I should be taking part in occupations, posting photos, interviewing organizers, and sharing ways to get involved, but I haven't done any of those things. I want to be excited about this global movement, but I'm not. Life is out of balance!" Something is not right!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. The World Health Organization identifies workplace stress as the “ global health epidemic of the 21st century.” The techniques help professionals build the self-awareness – so when work and life come to a full boil, you can bounce back. Others do not.”. How do you practice it?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2021

As a whole, this group is poised to make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025. While they might not identify as activists, they do feel personally responsible for making life better for themselves, their peers, and marginalized groups. Main photo courtesy of Jopwell.com. They’ve entered the workforce. They are cause-oriented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2019

Photo by Norbert Reimer. There is a growing recognition and research that suggests people are starting to take a step back from the 24-hour digital life we have now and realize the mental health issues from being constantly connected to work and the ill effects of a toxic work culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

But they knew that in order to scale their work globally, they needed to use the web to influence lasting change. They can also see photos from underwater reports, which make it easier to understand the impact that everyday trash is having on fragile marine life. https://www.flickr.com/photos/giffordclan/8763122917.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. questions surrounding globalization and social justice.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Generosity is one of the most important values in life. The first GivingTuesday took place in 2012, and since then it’s grown into a global movement. Place photos and videos on your GivingTuesday page to illustrate your goal and why it matters. Get familiar with the big day.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

I can’t think of a lesson, an outlook on life, and a guiding principle for my work that is more about love than this one. Mama Lucy is an Epic Change fellow, and has been an invited speaker at the European Summit for Global Transformation. The biggest lesson: Everyone has something to give. Learn more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

He's an editor at Global Voices and his personal blog, Better Days , where I first learned about RSS readers and how to use bloglines. If 100 Facebook friends (or their friends) donate $10 (or more - so I can get back to regularly scheduled blogging on other topics) and spread the word to their friends, we can change her life forever!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition. My advice would be to ask around – see who’s already interested in social media in their personal life. The other two big to-do items are mobile and going global. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites.

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

If we met in real life to go to a webinar, we wouldn’t sit in little coded cubicles parallel to each other, all watching the same speaker. Featured Photo: Design-Driven Stories Teach Kids Skills by Going to School Fund. Gifts can be offered as a raffle to a select number of random winners, and given as a reward for participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Second Life requires a significant time investment to appreciate the potential.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Lam is harnessing social media to spark civic engagement and drive global giving and volunteerism. And presenting the Lytro Camera for best photo entry is Lisa Rose, executive director at PhotoPhilanthropy. Participate virtually at the Aloft Nonprofit Commons Drive-In Theater in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2010

Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. I got to snap this photo of two women, Marnie Webb and Charlene Li , who have greatly influenced my work over the past 5-10 years. It made me think of Network Life Cycles and NetGains.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

TechSoup has an extensive global reach operating in 35 countries globally and with our geographically dispersed network, social media has made it even easier for us to connect with all of our communities. Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Photo: kopp0041. LinkedIn Group. TechSoup Blog. SlideShare. Del.icio.us.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. Social media used to engage local supporters to act globally.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. David Evan Harris - Global Lives.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In a new campaign to raise awareness about the challenges - and opportunities - in a world of 7 billion, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has urged the world to take action to reduce the disparities in which hundreds of millions of people in developing and least developed nations lack the most basic ingredients for a decent life.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

But data collection can be painfully slow, and in some cases, lack of speed can mean the difference between life and death. With Open Data Kit , grassroots activists can capture and export text, photos, video, audio, bar codes, even location. It seems like a simple thing: get out in the community, collect the data, do the math.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. Adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. Photo courtesy of Flickr user lungstruck. How Does Refurbished Equipment Stack Up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. He has seen it all. I talked to a lot of Campuseros; those are their questions. Their answer were quite moving. billion to date.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's Global Content and Community Coordinator and resident digital storytelling expert Ale Bezdikian says: If you're just embarking on your journey into social media visual storytelling using photos and videos, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the depth of information out there. That's how it works!

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