Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

Mousa and I talked about his dream of helping centers for blind people in Iraq get the tech equipment they need. By collecting the waste and composting it using a technology that Waste Concern has created, they can access carbon credits sufficient to pay for the entire enterprise (including the capital to get the venture launched).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

I was surprised a little later to realize that we were flying over Iraq. I had slept through the night and into the late afternoon in the Middle East. We flew over snow-capped mountains in Turkey.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2007

This tremendous growth is due in large part to the continued use of Martus by our partners working in Guatemala with the National Police Archive, and projects gathering data about Burma, Iraq and the Philippines.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

After massive leaks of documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars and diplomatic cables from around the world, Wikileaks has demonstrated that it is a formidable threat to American legitimacy and power. Now, thanks to the tactical success of Operation Payback's DDoS attacks, they are.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

My mentee, Musa, talked about his efforts to help communities in Iraq, including getting blind schools what they needed in terms of equipment (something I’m planning on helping him with), and ended with a rap. Prince Haakon of Norway kicked off the session, along with our moderator, Angel Cabrera, the dean of the Thunderbird Business School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

In deck above, you will see a graph that shows that the Ice Bucket Challenge had more search volume than other news such as Ferguson and Iraq during the last few weeks. This shows the importance of timing and playing off current events. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2009

And now, Melanie Mathos and the good folks at Blackbaud have co-opted the technology for the nonprofit world. But simply having the list may drive more interesting traffic, like, oh, Barham Salih, Iraq's Deputy P.M. Yeah, my sister got me with one of those a couple of months back. Check it out. As it turns out, they're pretty boring.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

These sites should be working together using technology like RSS feeds. Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. They can build technology like All for Good, that help people connect. A: More will be revealed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I have been providing strategic support to charitable organizations about how to use the internet and technology to engage, educate, and ultimately mobilize audiences – and especially raise money online – for almost a decade. This is not some crazy idea or gimmicky technology solution. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The Iraq War was raging. 'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies. things that it celebrated are now commonplace, and nonprofit technology and effectiveness still requires money.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The arrival of the Internet in the mid-1990s plus advancing communication technology means children of the current generation are growing up as native users of the Internet, email, text and instant messaging, blogging, tweeting, gaming and a host of other cyber vehicles. One obvious reason for the generational digital divide is timing.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

Currently, we are working on building clientele in Doha, Qatar as we continue to work with longtime partners the Supreme Education Council and the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

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) Session on Does web 2.0 work in Politics.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

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)

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Over the 30 years of our organization, we’ve sent over 25 million dollars in direct aid consisting of food, medical supplies, books, and toys to Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon. Two years after MECA started sanctions were imposed on Iraq, which were ultimately were responsible for the deaths of half a million children under the age of 5.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Serving as a geographical and cultural bridge between Europe and the Middle East, Turkey is a country that shares borders with both Syria and Iraq (not to mention another six * countries). In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. The examples are there, too.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I attended the keynote address on blogging by Atlantic journalist Andrew Sullivan at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta on April 9. He noted that when he turned against the Iraq War he lost two-thirds of his readers, especially after admitting mistakes about his position on the war. Matt Quinn, IT Manager, Harvesters.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

My presentation concentrated on a few case studies where certain technologies were the appropriate tools for engagement and aided work to connect, empower, and educate youth communities. Has your organization tackled issues in the youth community and used new technologies to support your work? Youth Empowerment with Social Media.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

In science and technology centers, there are some “can’t”s that are alive and well in other museums. on kids' freedom--keeps science and technology museums from hard topics and edgy presentation styles. Here are a few things I learned from this session: Self-censorship is different in different museum types.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

Technology rock stars have also joined the bandwagon, including Bill Gates , Robert Scoble , and Mark Zuckerberg (who was challenged to do this by Chris Christy, Governor of NJ). Soon celebrities and main stream media joined in the fun as it continues to sweep the nation.

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Care2

MARCH 7, 2011

We'll show you how Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a national non-profit, non-partisan group supporting our nation's newest generation of veterans has established a multi-year partnership with Miller High Life, the San Diego Padres, and celebrities that support their mission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

technology geek, statistician, and government official though civil. One handy example is the mapping and visualization of the Iraq War Logs and most recently AV referendum results in the UK. These kinds of events, however, still tend to be dominated by the. society organizations and other organizations involved in cultural.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 19, 2007

Yesterday, in Iraq, Andrea Parhamovich and our security personnel were enshrined on that list. They were not the enemies of anyone in Iraq; they were there to help. They did not see themselves as heroes, only people doing a job on behalf of a cause they believed in.

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Care2

JUNE 29, 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)

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

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) No real interactivity. com , Inc.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

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) No real interactivity. com , Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy. That's the first thing: you do not have to be technical. And it was called Numi.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

Most weeks his podcast is a direct chat with his listeners, but this week he posted a recent speech, "Moving Forward in Iraq" that he gave at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Moving Forward in Iraq Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Senator Barack Obama Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Chicago, IL Good afternoon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I think this podcast is a mini success right here, you know, that women and people of color are using technology to -- and social justice activists of all genders and races -- are using technology to get our stories out there. He's an ex-Marine, has two sons in Iraq, is a arch Republican and right winger.

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