Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. This year they have a record registration of 1650 delegates from India and other countries from around the world. It will be interesting to compare the perspective from India. Tags: india. David Appasamy. Gaurav Mishra.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. Since Viji was raised in India, she began looking at the educational challenges faced by people from that country. Tags: book famine accessibility Viji San Jose International Bookshare Dilip.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them. 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement. It’s hard to get noticed on Twitter without purchasing ads even if you have a large following.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned that in some parts of India everyone has a cell phone but few have indoor plumbing or access to clean water – change is happening. Tags: TechAwards Santa Clara Tech Museum Tech Awards. The impacts these people and their organizations make are being felt world-wide. What did I learn last night?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

I greeted at the airport with a sign that read " Nasscom Leadership India Forum - Miss Kanter." The driven took me to the Grand Hyatt Hotel saying that during the day the traffic is much different. And the Nasscom India Leadership Forum is not different. Tags: india.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2009

This is a guy who as his daughter put it, piled books onto a little vegetable cart and trundled it into the market place so that the common man in small town India would be exposed to the literature of Tolstoy, Gibran, Ruskin and others. Tags: India Meghani Bookshare Gujarati.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Situated on the banks of the Vellayani fresh water lake, on the outskirts on Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India , IISE is a testimony to social enterprise at its very best. The participants would get hands on training at a non profit organization in India and will train in all aspects of non profit management.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I went to their map and quickly found some other leading social entrepreneurs that are part of the PWX network, folks I've had the pleasure of meeting many times in the past decade, people like Joe Madiath of Gram Vikas in Orissa, India, and Bunker Roy of the Barefoot College in northern India. You're known by the company you keep!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

To enter the contest, readers had to share their " Theory of Change." Megha is a passionate human rights advocate in India and also lawyer. I am a lawyer by profession and presently a student of human rights law in my masters at India. LLM student, NLSIU, Bangalore(Human Rights), India. Tags: contest india.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I've just returned from a trip to India where there is a different approach to solving complex social problems using social media and the Internet. He told me about their crowd sourcing for social good strategy to find an affordable, and clean energy solution for India's poor population. Tags: csr.

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AUGUST 4, 2008

One Laptop per Child Lands in India: "Nicholas Negroponte has found it tough going in India. Tags: NPtech NPOLPC. For years as the head of MIT's Media Lab, the famed computer scientist promoted radical ways to use technology to transform society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Thanks to the support of the EB team, we now have direct access to digital versions of many important reference series, along with the ability to provide these books to people with qualifying print disabilities in Canada, the UK, India and all over the world! We have already gotten close on trade books: juvenile and teen literature.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Tactical Tech, based in the UK and India, has published The Quick ‘n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy to help advocates find "online services that are quick to use and easy to understand." Tags: TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. Tags: india. I suggested that social media tools can be valuable in connecting professionals working in a particular field or cluster of NGOS with one another.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I also think that examining this idea in a place where the 3 areas create a very clear Venn Diagram, like India, invites a wide range of voices to the conversation. One of the participants was Pratima from Shelter Associates in Pune, India. Tags: interview issues. Find out more about the conference here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Tags: print disabled print disabilities Benetech publishers blind SCCR Bookshare WIPO SCCR20.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. Tags: india. I'm still very jet-lagged and adjusting to both the time zone and culture in Mumbai. Following the #nilf was an excellent way to gain a better of understanding of what was happening on the stage. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples. Tags: india twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2009

The project comes from Tactical Technology, inspired their info-activism camp in India. Tags: netaction. The site and film include inspiring info-activism stories from around the world, a set of cards with tool tips and advice. Not to mention the excellent resource. It's a must see, must read, must download.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Open at first only to users in the US and India, Facebook Lite is now available to all English-language users. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Facebook. First reactions to Facebook Lite seem to be mostly positive, albeit with the inevitable comparisons to Twitter’s lean message stream. read more ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lavelle Foundation, Bookshare has been able to work with Worth Trust, a nonprofit with offices in Chennai, India. Tags: blind Worth Trust Bookshare Lavelle. I now feel even I can help people living in America!!” Thanks to the Worth Trust team and to Lavelle in supporting these efforts!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

Last month, I got to attend Ashoka's Tech4Society conference in Hyderabad, India, as a guest writer for the AshokaTech blog. By coincidence, Nasscom (our partner NGO in India) was hosting its annual India Leadership Forum that same week in Mumbai, and several of our partners had staff attending the conference.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. Thanks to a series of happy coincidences, I got to spend today at NASSCOM's India Leadership Forum (they're TechSoup Global's partner in India).

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JANUARY 7, 2008

NussbaumOnDesign One Laptop Per Child Versus Intel--Who Speaks for India and China? Tags: NPOLPC. But now Intel has pulled out or been pushed out of the.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. Tags: Digital Divide Services Tech Planning. He will be live-blogging from the event so watch for more posts to come!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. For instance, Shailesh Upadhyay (23, Velore, India) found it difficult to study in the evenings at his home in rural India.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2010

Last month, I was lucky enough to attend Ashoka's Tech4Society conference in Hyderabad, India, as a writer for the AshokaTech blog. Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 This post originally appeared there. According to Rao, social equity still requires landline phones.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

Bookshare is also picking up steam in India. We have members all over the world, but Bookshare India is the biggest outside of the United States right now. Tags: Chafee Bookshare. That global connection is a huge way that worlds connect at Bookshare. We are very proud of that program. No one should have to wait for that!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2010

What this all means is that Elliot will be traveling to Hyderabad, India next month to attend and live-blog as AshokaTECH's official blogger for their Tech 4 Society conference and celebration (in partnership with the Lemelson Foundation ). Tags: Acquiring Technology Digital Divide Grants for Technology Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It has also allowed me to highlight some of the really hot areas of the map—like the UK, India, China, US, etc. We ask our supporters to tag their photos in a special way so we can easily pull and republish this content on together on the organization’s Supporter’s page. 7. Tags: online communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

That shortchanges Larry’s background: he was the key leader in the campaign to eliminate smallpox in India, cofounded the Seva Foundation and a couple of high tech companies, and was most recently running Google.org. Tags: WEF Skoll Brilliant social enterprise Waste Concern. A veritable intellectual and social smorgasbord!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Tactical Tech, based in the UK and India, has published The Quick 'n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy to help advocates find "online services that are quick to use and easy to understand." Tags: Online Activism.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

Harish Hande of Selco of India advocated passionately to involve the poor in the planning for ventures and initiatives designed to help them. Tags: WEF social entrepreneurs Davos Benetech Kickstart Selco Schwab Foundation Davos10 Schatzalp. We know social entrepreneurs are at the leading edge of that effort!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2011

There is also a hashtag dialog on Twitter under the tag #iswabbedforamit. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

How about Facebook friends in India? Whether it is through a search engine like Google or Baidu , a hashtag via social media, or a tag to use in a You Tube video then it is making your work more visible to your target market. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2010

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Other initiatives, like Vote Report India or the Pink Chaddi Campaign , start off with a strong focus on Collaboration around a specific event. Tags: ROI.

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