Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

Fundación Paraguaya was the country’s first microfinance program and first development NGO. His activities with the World Economic Forum include participation on the Education Global Agenda Council and he is a university professor of social entrepreneurship in the U.S. and Africa. Congratulations, Martín!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). The next segment was “Connect” and Marcelo set this up by talking about how the world is now a global coffee house and showing how the news of the Nobel Peace Prize travelled around the world on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

A statement to the international news agency Reuters read: “We revised our Ad Grants policies to help nonprofits be more effective with AdWords and improve the quality of their ads, which will lead to targeted awareness of their projects and mission.” We’ve posted the exact email at the bottom of this post.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2010

Last week, several TechSoup Global staffers participated in Foundation Week in Brussels. This post comes from Dara Westling, vice president of development. Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog. Incredibly interesting session on enabling greater entrepreneurship in Europe. read more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. I was honored to be the keynote speaker for the Bay Area Microsoft/TechSoup Global Connection Day on Monday. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. This is true both of us as individuals, but also in terms of broader policy.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

Jane Meseck , senior director of global programs at Microsoft Philanthropies. International NGO Leadership. Nicole Ozer , director of technology and civil liberties policy at ACLU. Philanthropy. Lisa Pool , founder and executive director of the Technology Affinity Group. Nonprofit Technology Leadership. Law and Advocacy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You can help your tech-shy NGO friends cross the digital divide by bringing them to a nonprofit tech meetup. Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 60 cities. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. In fact, you probably know a few of these beginners. Seattle, Washington.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2008

This time I was reminded in a general discussion amongst over 50 NGO managers and policy makers at a learning forum convened by the Global Water Challenge. This step is usually essential and often overlooked.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. This is on a personal computing level.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

My Dad is involved in the creation of the Global Center for Cultural Enterprise and Entrepreneurship which will support cultural entrepreneurs around the world with training, tech support, and policy and funding resources. I have a personal request for all you Ning and social networking experts out there.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. Foreign Policy magazine's Predators for Peace Drones is a short history of humanitarian drones. How Are Drones Being Used for Good? In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices summarized her presentation: Dee Dee's 10 minute introduction to why she blogs and what she got out of it put a big smile on my face. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. Dee Dee with the BlogHer bag!

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. The Just Economy Conference is the national event for community, policy, government and business leaders who work for fairness in banking, housing and business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. But, to make that happen, we need to recreate the favorable copyright policy environment we enjoy in the United States. one a global norm and allows for easy import and export of accessible materials.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Now, here's the latest: Global Digital Inclusion. Ah yes, another month and another massive global digital inclusion initiative. They plan to do it through policy and regulatory changes. The real bottleneck now is anti-competitive policies that keep prices unaffordable. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. I did policy reports, and analysis and research. The Obama campaign did it, but without calling out women as their target audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program. The Global Peers will be reporting out on the successes of the women in communities throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

If they are really awful and you think they are in violation of Twitter’s Hateful Conduct Policy , then report them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

If they are really awful and you think they are in violation of Twitter’s Hateful Conduct Policy , then report them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. 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. The Forecasts for 2012. for some time now.

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