Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones. Having this network map on the wall during the whole training, let us as the trainers acknowledge the expertise and knowledge in the room. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya. Map your network including who you will invite, how you will reach them and how much you will ask for.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs. Mobile phones use much less electricity than PCs, and another benefit is that they make Internet and IT readily available in developing countries.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. But ranked 96th in Internet affordability, especially for fixed broadband Internet and mobile phone Internet. Needless to say, the expense of Internet affects cloud adoption.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. success stories july14contest Local impact map youthorg'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The implementation team was in the conference room in San Francisco for the first time, plus we had in-country leaders on Skype and phone. We created a network map. Our first day of meetings devoted most of the morning for team building and orientation. Networks are more than random gatherings of people and organizations online.

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