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4 Ways to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Digital Storytelling with WhatsApp

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From a very young age, it is through stories that we learn about ourselves, those around us, and the world in which we live. Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification.

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WORTH Trust Solves Tech Woes to Help More Kids in India

Tech Soup

India is home to 70 million people with different needs and abilities. WORTH, which stands for Workshop for Rehabilitation and Training of the Handicapped, aims to create opportunities for vocational training and avenues for employment for people with different needs in India.

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Social Media and the Bottom of the Pyramid

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. I also shared a brief case study of Red Cross over the past five years of integrating social media. Tags: india. A detailed description of the panel and discussion points can be found here by Ashutosh Desai.

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.” Movement can also be integrated with the topics.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. I’ve also use this for keynotes, but it requires doing a survey before to gather up the stories. Working in Cohorts.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They have also been described as the first tribe of digital natives, screenagers, and digital integrators. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Tell your story across multiple screens. Don’t talk down, treat them as adults.

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