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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan? Does that mean your social media is international? Just because you can translate a Facebook status update from English into Cantonese using a Google tool doesn’t mean that you should, nor is it an effective part of an international social media strategy. Probably not.

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not only as a professional member, I served as a chapter president and on International Board of Directors for the past 4 years. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days.

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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you’ve fundraised online before, ask yourself a few questions to get a baseline of what is achievable. After you think through these questions, create a well defined goal that follows the SMART framework : specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. How much have we raised online in the past year?

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How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

When people call in, your customer service rep has to answer the phone and deal with the person's question. One of the scenarios where it's especially important to be able to handle unusually high amounts of traffic is after a disaster, which is why Second Harvest Japan decided to host its Emergency Response Portal in the cloud.

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Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. Questions for you … Will the fragmentation of online fundraising effect non-profits? In our brief time together Claire mentioned one of the core values at Twitter – “Being a force for good”.

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Consumer Attitudes Toward Mobile Giving

NTEN

Since that time, other disaster relief efforts such as the Gulf oil spill, Japan disaster, and tornado relief in the Southeast U.S. With that awareness came a further evolution as the question for charities everywhere regarding mobile giving transitioned from "if or when" to "how".

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Data for Global Health, Part II

Forum One

how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). and develop an end-to-end system that manages those key points all the way from collection through regional, national, and international aggregation to analysis.

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