Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Some nonprofits are experimenting with a group of tools called “Amplifiers” that allow you sign up your fans and friends to tweet all together at the start of the event. Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday.

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JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This is something that nonprofit professionals are just beginning to explore.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. If you're holding monthly events that gather the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Feeling overwhelmed? and the globe.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. There's still time to submit your nomination before October 31, 2011 for this year's Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public interest.

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APRIL 22, 2006

Yesterday I went to see Paul Rusesabagina speak, the man who inspired the movie, Hotel Rwanda. Post a photo of a candle on your blog or web site with a link to Bloggers for Darfur, and to their Flickr Group. Join the Bloggers for Darfur Yahoo Group. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group/Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Kigali, Rwanda: Storytelling Event. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. A List of Examples.

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MARCH 26, 2008

April 6-13, 2008 human rights groups like Genocide Intervention Network , STAND , Amnesty International , and Save Darfur are using the Global Week for Darfur to raise awareness about the continuing violence and need for action. The week provides a number of ways for you to do what you can.

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MAY 20, 2009

It is a known fact that over half of international aid never makes it to the actual people in need (only 20 percent of aid ever reached Rwanda during its recent genocide). Next to me, two women were discussing women's rights, and another group was discussing water projects in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Intel unveiled its support for the Global Education Alliance's pilot program to create an education framework in Rwanda. By my calculations, she have almost completed the series before the NTC in March.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Several years ago, I had an opportunity to travel to Costa Rica with a group of artists. In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. Everyone has found it possible to share her voice by making a card. We have come a long way!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold. Hopefully, the situation in the Congo resolves itself and doesn't cross the border into Rwanda, as it did in the '90s. CH: Yes, we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Spencer Brodsky is 17 and he is spending his time online to raise money to bring Green Stoves to Rwanda , something he's been doing for the past 2 years. . about a class project where students made cards for some elderly residents of a group home. Spencer Brodsky.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

But we do have a group of much more energetic postdoctoral researchers at our institute at the moment exploring how people love the nature and how people love animals too. And it’s being teased by your peer group. And when we build that kind of love, we have the hope of bringing in someone from an out-group into our in-group.

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APRIL 25, 2008

Our peace and solidarity program is really unique because we look at the work and the experiences of women veterans, which is a group that is rarely looked at. BB: I read in one of your bios that you received a Fulbright grant to go to Rwanda and study the reconciliation process. It is like a dream come true.

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MAY 21, 2008

JG: I had the opportunity to spend some time in Rwanda when I was in college, and what really struck me about that experience was the willingness and openness of the survivors, who are both victims and perpetrators, to heal their country and to move on. We "hired" a group of 12 outreach coordinators who then took that on.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

With women, you want to appeal to people's sense of group affiliation. It may be a mom group affiliation. It may be an environmentalist group affiliation. Not many groups do it. I learn about women in Rwanda, and they learn about my life. They're really the tougher customer than when it comes to men.

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MAY 13, 2009

Once the sponsored woman gets into the program - and she usually is one of the most socially excluded women in her own community within a conflict or post-conflict area - she is grouped with a group of 20 other women in what's called a "women's circle." Another group is learning how to make tiles or bricks. Every single one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

.” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups.

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JULY 5, 2006

Eight BPeace members traveled to Rwanda in May 2006 and used the Bpeace Rwanda blog to document their trip. One of the team's members, Cari Clement of the Fiber and Craft Entrepreneurial Development Center , also kept her own travel blog, Rwanda Knits, during the trip.

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MAY 23, 2006

It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). The group writes letters to the women they sponsor when they meet each month.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

Honorata joined a small group of women who also suffered in war. In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Slides are available in the NpTech group in Slideshare. Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe. According to Read/Write Web , FaberNovel Consulting has released a new research paper on social networks. There's a good case study of LinkedIn.

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APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request. Those are some of the ways in which we try to make those decisions.

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