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A Journey to India: Opportunities to Connect Networks

Amy Sample Ward

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Journeys for Change is offering the chance to win a fully-paid nine-day tour of leading Social Entrepreneurs in India. Tags: challenge socialchange competition entrepreneurship india justmeans social entrepreneurs.

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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

They needed a mobile app that worked offline. It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India. SK: I have been involved in this project since I met Trish in India in 2018. So, I started sharing my idea at different networking events. TP: It’s the flexibility of use.

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Using Video for Women's Empowerment in Rural India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. It's a reminder that sharing your video offline can also be powerful. The organization is called Video Volunteers.

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent. If your community meets offline at a local watering hole to share opinions and make plans, don’t bother setting up a Twitter account with the purpose of influencing them.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Online BBC World Debate on Global Recession: A Developing World Emergency

Forum One

The World Bank and the BBC are running a live debate online and offline tomorrow, April 23 on the global economic recession. FYI - The online component of the debate is using Forum One's very cool Live Interviews Online service.). s Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, and activist Bob Geldof.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use an Online Store

Tech Soup

In 2005, Shannon Keith visited India and was confronted by the harsh realities of brothels and prostitution. Organizations that operate offline storefronts or second hand shops, and want to sell products online as well. Selling environmentally-friendly clothing to raise money for your cause, like Lonesome George & Co.

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