Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. As I joked in a recent conversation with a colleague, human rights activists “are the 1%” but the issues we face are relevant to the 99% of other users. and that phrase still sticks with me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Photo by Idea Constructor. While Marnie didn’t say this, sounds like a silo issue or maybe just a matter of one database not integrating with another? The governance issue is very interesting. The presentation is here. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering.

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APRIL 2, 2012

Six years into setting up a global network of partners, TechSoup Global team members and some of our global partners will talk openly about the real issues in going global. We’ve asked a few of our global network partners to be on hand to provide their take on the issues. Wednesday, April 4. Evonne Heyning and Susan Tenby.

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JUNE 30, 2006

The quote provided in the release by Executive Director, Nicolas de Torrenté, encapsulates, I think, why podcasting and blogs are such important tools in a nonprofit or NGO's communication plan: Podcasting provides us with a new tool to inform the public about critical humanitarian issues often ignored by the media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. 7billionactions.org do help us gain a deeper understanding of the issues and trends behind the raw data. Photos: 7 Billion Actions and Kevin Lo's photo of an "Innojam" session with the UN and SAP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Photo by Thomas Hawk. It's a small step up the ladder of engagement and won't necessarily lead to true education about an issue and offline engagement, but that marginal increase in awareness has a lot of potential for deeper levels of engagement. The article also talks about scaling issues for charity:water ".their

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APRIL 15, 2015

So while it isn’t unusual for me to see these partners in good out and about, it is a bit of surprise when that person turns out to be the leader of an international non-governmental organization (NGO) based many states and hundreds of miles away (who also happens to be a Blackbaud customer). The issues they tackle.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The IT press was buzzing in late April about the free portable WiFi embedded by Microsoft in select May 6 Forbes Magazine print issues. Available on news stands now, so check one out if you see a new issue while in line at the grocery store. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

In Cambodia, the term is defined as "any media that can solve social issues." " The young woman in the pink shirt suggested that we create a role play around how media might help resolve the issue of domestic violence. Photos from Thomas Wanhaff. Denith was our very capable group leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

photo by Oso Sopheap blogs at ifocus with the tagline ???three She has worked for that NGO for almost two years. Her blog covers social, political, and economic global issues from the perspective of young Cambodian professional. Many people in Cambodia are afraid to express their ideas about human rights and other issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I tried very hard to use Cambodian photos and images in the curriculum, but was not able to find something that represented tagging. Photos from Thomas Wanhaff. It became clear that social media in Cambodia means "any media that can solve social issues." During the Web2.0 workshop, I spoke about tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

An interview Mari Velasco, Lorene Staka, and Joanna Eng of the Idealist Photos in flickr The Idealist , a project of Action Without Borders ,connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a better world. We'd still like to do more, though, to integrate these tools into the flow of our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign. What internal issues does this bring up for you? I suspect in some, if not many, organizations - there may be some control issues. What do you do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

In this photo, Pagna is on the left. Photo by Thomas Wanhaff. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. They are currently doing research on issues impacting women and ICT in Cambodia. Good how to resource here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. here , using the ICT4peace tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Susie Halksworth photo in flickr Susie Halksworth is the Resources Director at AFL (formerly the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre ), a not-for-profit organisation based in Cambridge, focused on advice and ICT projects. What are your most challenging moments as the technical person in your ngo? m not just accidental, I???m

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. For example, LinkedIn is a professional network where people generally discuss issues related to the workplace and share professional updates. Make sure you test it in advance and troubleshoot any issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

This flickr photo made me hit the pause button because of the date, not the content. " and analyzing the evolving thinking about technology adoption issues. " and analyzing the evolving thinking about technology adoption issues. 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

AUGUST 26, 2007

Photo by Michaela Hackner, Kalabird. I will be starting a new blog focused on nonprofit technology issues that will serve as my professional development blog. By the time you read this post, I will be crossing the International Dateline enroute to the first Cambodian Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh. (No, I wrote it in advance).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. An excellent slide show about the issues in wiki adoption within the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Here's the update I received along with the photo above. I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. Have you been able to draw attention to issue of homeless youth? In less than two weeks, the presence of spanish NPO. sponsor a child. The homeless.

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MAY 11, 2021

According to the Global NGO Technology Report, 94% of NGOs worldwide agree that social media is effective for creating online brand awareness. To help educate the public on issues of unfairness in the U.S. Social media remains a powerful force for nonprofits to communicate with their stakeholders and supporters.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

A highly retweeted tweet posted by @Oxfam , this tweet taps into the power of statistics, the popular issue of income inequality, and includes a unique visual that helps the tweet stand out from the clutter. Rather than only tweeting about its services, @OnGood curates good content tweeted by other NGOs by retweeting their tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Photo by Mark Horvath. He made a great point that social media expertise isn’t the only thing that free agents bring to a partnership with an NGO. On the stage with me were two of my favorite free agents, Mark Horvath (next to me on stage) and Shawn Ahmed (virtually through Twitter and video).

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APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Social Media. " With PaperKarma.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2005

Maybe you already know about this, but I can only bear to hear bits of the news so it was new to me that on September 19th the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform released its recommendations for improving the electoral process and they recommended a photo ID requirement to vote. birth certificate) to get a photo ID.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

I saw a program that was well-intentioned, certainly well-funded, that was going to fail, in a community that was facing just tremendous poverty and challenge, environmental challenges, health issues. To us, it's really about collaboration. It simply doesn't work to stay in your silo, and to grab hold of your mission statement and work alone.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

inclusion issues that arise with its disclosure. This year’sconference, to be held in Berlin in July, promises to be both interesting and useful for those who want to learn more about open data issues. NGO representatives, parliamentarians, journalists, and. And so are the ways in which governments, civil society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. Photo courtesy of Matt Reed, writer for the Cambodia Daily. He worked as a content editor for the Khmer language portal.

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APRIL 2, 2021

So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. But 23% of adult social media users said they changed their views about a political or social issue because of something they saw on social media. I mean, we can take this any way we want.

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