Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2016

The rapid rise of social media and mobile technology has had a profound impact on website design and email marketing, yet many nonprofits have not yet adapted to the new aesthetics and functionality of a mobile, social Internet. 10 Website Design Best Practices for NGOs. your NGO must mobile-optimize your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too. I also found a manual for Kino , a video editing program that runs on Linux. It reminded of the ngo in a box collection of open source video editing tools that I read about on the NTEN blog. and speak spanish?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

Bettina Warburg of Animal Ventures sharing how Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain can combine to build a set of rules for machines to trade directly… “robots with wallets.” Her fabulous blockchain explainer video is below.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

This week on the Microsoft Citizenship blog , there's an interesting profile of Concern Worldwide , an NGO that fights poverty in 25 of the poorest countries in the world. Please visit the site to view this video). Like Concern, Foundation Nepal has field workers in very remote areas with limited Internet access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. They are taking some video cameras, including 3 Kiddie Vcams donated by Doug from the video bloggers list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). unicef Video mit Jesus, Ghandi, Theresa und dir: [link] #IFC2014. A good summary of my talk can be found in this blog post from Civil Society Fundraising and this summary. Doing good has never been easier.”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Mobile phones use much less electricity than PCs, and another benefit is that they make Internet and IT readily available in developing countries. The Locavore app offers government and NGO info on which food items are in season in your locale. It doesn't connect up via the Internet to your smart meter. Carticipate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 1: Social media must be integrated with internet communications or program strategy. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Connecting With Colleagues.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Think what the cost would be to replace every piece of computer hardware in your organization, including any internet related hardware, servers, even printers and tablets. Facebook lying about its numbers, video views and sharing users personal data are turning people off. For a small organization of under 10 people, lets say $15,000.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Finally, for your website to be compatible with the growing number of devices that it is likely to be viewed on in the coming decades – personal computers, smartphones, Smart TVs and appliances, and internet-connected mirrors and car dashboards, ensure that your website utilizes responsive design. Install an SSL Certificate on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. Group Photo with Certificates. 1. What does it mean to be a “Master Trainer?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He selected some definitions from the Internet. Internet is difficult to stop. There were five organizations participating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

The Internet connection is very slow that I am on and typepad won't load. This is primarily because they do not have Internet access or computers at home and their blogs, while work related aren't necessarily part of their formal job. I'm finding the Internet connections very very slow. Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

I'm the moderator for the Flickr for Nonprofits Online Affinity Group over at NTEN and during a recent exchange about nonprofits using online photo and (video) contests to call attention to the causes, Cordellia and Susanne caught my attention. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Naples, Florida: #Storymakers 2017: Creating Images and Video with Adobe Spark. Wellington, New Zealand: Quick, Quality, and Possibly Quirky Video | Net2Welly September '17 Meetup. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Tuesday, September 5, 2017. Wednesday, September 6, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Watch the video that Preetam Rai took to see the game in action and the video by Thomas Wanhoff to see a report out of the game.). In reflection, after watching both Preetam's video and Thomas Wanoff's video of the game in process, I guess I should be so hard on myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Who has time for Video? The point made is: Some content is going to be very well suited to video -- but other. The question is "When is video a good. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. isn't as negative as it sounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

I didn't capture his quote on the video, but he was talking about writing a book about games. And think about it, email has been around for a really long time but the web, Internet, the amount of information, and how people use it has changed dramatically! I've been interested in the issues around ngo organizational adoption of web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email. We also saw a successful use of WhatsApp when India Development Review created a video clip by asking non-profits to send their videos with a message via WhatsApp. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It works in areas with slow internet. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. So it’s a great tool for areas that have low internet connection. . Audios, files.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. It is difficult for some women to write blogs because it requires going into an Internet cafe and women do not always feel welcome. She notes that women can blog about politics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Finally, here's a video on YouTube on how NOT to use Facebook and not to mention also very funny. In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. These drones can supply Internet access at a fraction of the cost of near-earth satellites. TechCrunch. This 25 th.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The latest scare this year is about how the Internet of Things could kill people. The idea there is that the growing multitude of Internet-connected home and office devices like smart thermostats have pretty much no security against cyberattacks. Now the perpetual horror story of nonprofit tech and all of IT for that matter.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. It now of course has its own acronym: IoT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

Based on the underlying theme of women’s empowerment with a focus on education and entrepreneurship, the 70 participants of the Tel Aviv event included representatives of NGOs active in the fields of employment, education, women’s empowerment, consultancy, and tech training from all over Israel. More Links: YouTube videos: [link] , [link].

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

My trusted sources, if you want to do a little bit more research anytime I cite a statistic, it’s always going to be from Pew Internet, M+R Benchmarks, Global Trends In Giving. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) But actually you didnt say that.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We expanded this year to be able to provide product donations to pretty much any NGO in the world — 236 countries and territories to be exact. To catch your donors' interest, you can also take advantage of Facebook's interesting new automatic collage feature as well as live video streaming. Adoption of Online Services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The internet is loaded with amazing free or low-cost tools and resources! Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Zoom is an affordable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Giphy GIF Maker enables users to easily create animated video GIFs and GIF slideshows with captions. Video Editing. Lumen5 converts articles and blog posts into video content – ideal for social media. PowToon enables user to create video animations for video storytelling and presentations. iStock :: istock.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

As Internet and mobile access grows, more data is made open online. Presentations on the use of open data in development cooperation ( AidData ) and discussions on transparency and publication of open data by NGOs. NGO representatives, parliamentarians, journalists, and. are planned. demonstration of just how useful it can be.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Connected to Twitter, Blab enables real-time video conversations from multiple locations. Giphy GIF Maker enables users to easily create animated video GIFs and GIF slideshows with captions. Video Editing Tools. Upload’n’Roll allows you to upload images or videos saved on your camera roll to Snapchat.

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