Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

As someone who travels roughly half the time, it’s important to provide some insight into what’s going on, especially since these meetings often influence where Benetech goes with our efforts. was to keep the Benetech team in the loop. So, this is an in-depth report on the two days I just spent at the end of last week in Geneva.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

Social change depends on people, and the best thing about the WEF is getting to connect with people who have greatly above average ability to influence social change, through their corporations, governments, NGOs (non-governmental organizations, the global term for nonprofits), churches/mosques/synagogues/religious institution and unions.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 27, 2012

For India, “Trickledown hasn’t worked,” Roy writes. Roy’s analysis moves from the influence of corporate India to the dynamics of the Indian political system, and from the nation’s corporate-serving military apparatus to the topic of “Corporate Philanthropy” (Roy’s capitalization). Who is Corporate Philanthropy for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Previously, she produced Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the US.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

The time out from the normal grind, plus the influence of dynamic peers, often leads to a leap of creativity. Harish Hande of Selco of India advocated passionately to involve the poor in the planning for ventures and initiatives designed to help them. I’m already getting into the spirit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

Unfortunately, I had an epic FLASH failure which prevented me from hearing the live streamed program in real time. A board of all babyboomers or Millennials isn’t good either.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2011

A bunch of thought leaders, technology folks, digital influencers and venture capitalists are headed to Puerta Vallarta for an invite-only conference. At the party, you could get your check swabbed and fill an application for the registry – it took ten minutes and I hope you’ll consider it too – after your read this post below.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

India drafted its first data privacy bill. GDPR is the legislative equivalent of an Instagram influencer. 2018 was a seminal year for privacy. The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, spawning nearly a dozen investigations by international and US regulators over Facebook’s data practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. What was our learning? It is not always easy to keep control of events.).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

What I learned from this campaign that it is important to get help from influencers on Twitter and that inbetween campaigns if you cultivate your network, the donations will not be a one-time only thing. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0 His Tweet-a-thon raised over $5,000 for his charity on Twitter.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

It not only illustrates how they could influence future developments but how they could respond to a future made even more unpredictable by technology. They must not only adapt to developments in technology but influence the way technology develops to ensure it continues to be used for good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. The page includes several storytelling graphics.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps aims to build awareness of the multiple factors that influence health. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, developed a data platform to address these information gaps and to engage local community leads in taking action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. And that is now being shared with women in Africa, women in India, who will then try to implement something similar in their communities. This was what didn't.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Understanding what data sources are used (and how often) is crucial for effective influencing and advocacy work across all levels. To achieve our aim, we need to understand the needs of one of our main targets – policymakers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It had hit India. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. It hit Singapore, overnight while I had been sleeping. I came down, and I just started to cry. Because I realized that it was something that other women had been dreaming, too.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

I’m going to talk to you about how to unlock your influence. So powerful, productive, and persuasive, that was what we talked about, and how you do that and influence. So what I’m going to share with you today is what influence is, what it isn’t, and how to use it in a way that moves other people easily into action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

The next area, where Women's Earth Alliance works, is in India , where we learned from our colleagues on the ground that support around creating sustainable agriculture would be the best thing we could do to help. I had worked for a large development organization in East Africa that really influenced my path.

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