Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

As the weeks pass, the disaster recovery is increasingly shifting out of the hands of professional first-responder organizations into the hands of the local NGO community. A joint press release in English is posted in the TechSoup Global press room. The TechSoup Global Network believes a strong civil society is always important.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2010

This announcement is great news for the global NGO sector: together, we'll be able to do accomplish much more for the sector than ever before. You can read the full press release here. We're excited to announce today that TechSoup Global and GuideStar International have joined forces. From the release: read more.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As of late September, the online technology donation portal Stifter-helfen.at – IT for nonprofits went online with a press conference in Vienna and media coverage in various print and online titles. It gives Austrian nonprofits access to over 100 products from three software companies. Among those three: Microsoft.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

What’s kind of funny is that I was quoted on the press release , which was out 3 weeks ago or so, but it’s taken me this long to blog it. This would be the first step I guess to making something better that was sustainable for NGO’s. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

Now, compare that with Google’s competitors and you’ll be hard-pressed to find something that stands out as analogous. The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer data are in, and while we are living through a multi-year decline in public trust, the NGO sector remains the leader in what trust we have left in four major sectors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

First, in partnership with Colombian NGO Corporación Punto de Vista, we assessed a methodology for studying conflict-related sexual violence in the country. In my Fall 2011 President’s Update , I mentioned PBS NewsHour’s two stories, and complete press coverage of our work is listed on our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. The press release does not mention whether it is going to be possible to designate the recipient! DC Metblogger Flickr Photo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2006

I got a press release this week (I feel so alternative media), announcing that Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres has started podcasting (yay!). Foundations need to see nonprofits and NGO's having a podcast or blog, in addition to traditional communication tools, as part of the nonprofit or NGO's mission.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. The mainstream IT press was alive with the topic. This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

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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. Collective intelligence - The written press can no longer lie. Goal is to provide web presence for most ngos in Romania.

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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. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone. Strange News. Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

And, of course, there are many pressing projects and needs. I met Christina Arnold who told me about her NGO and their work in Cambodia. We were both excited by the possibility, but acknowledged the challenges -- for example, no electricity. She invited to come, but this summer's work deadlines for screencasts just didn't permit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

10-15 press attending. Nancy White is still willing to host a ngo/npo dinner. If you open your mouth at this conference, expect to be quoted. If someone comes up to you with a camera, if you don???t t want your picture taken, tell them or ???okay okay from the waist up.??? Total number of 270. Look for Jory.(see Dinner is at 6:00 pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

According to my colleague Rik Riel, this campaign is sponsored by the Spanish NGO Mensajeros de la Paz , which is leveraging various new media to draw attention to their work. Actress and activist Mia Farrow will discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and neighboring Chad at a virtual press event in Second Life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

While surfing for some more BlogHers to add to the Nonprofit and NGO BlogHer blogroll, I came across the REAL hot 100: See How Hot Smart Can Be. The REAL hot 100 is a list featuring young women from around the country who are breaking barriers, fighting stereotypes, and making a difference in their communities or the nation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Note from Beth: While I’m facilitating “Networked NGO Workshops” in Delhi for Packard grantees in India, I’ve lined up a few guest posts. Thanks to social sharing features and widespread press coverage, the game was played by over 2 million people in 190 countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We've identified key NGO partners that we believe would benefit from our technical assistance and are developing our plans and identifying support to continue our work on Darfur this year. Benetech is drawing top talent by offering Silicon Valley tech jobs with a social purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

He is interested in NGO activities, including youth leadership and education. Official Intel Press Release here. BTW, Ricardo Carreon is a blogger living in South America and works for Intel. I follow his delicious tag stream and enjoy his flickr photos , particularly those depicting South American landscape and culture.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone. Monthly giving programs in particular have seen explosive growth, with revenue growing by 43 percent. Social Media. Digital Wallets.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

If you look around the world at some of the most pressing environmental challenges, you see women on the front lines of those challenges. MK: We really feel that this is a moment where the nonprofit, the NGO movement is changing very rapidly, and we like to think that we are a part of a new generation of how we do social-change work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? If you know a Solutionary Woman who works at a nonprofit or NGO who you think I should profile, please email me at britt at brittbravo dot com with their name, organization and contact info.

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Bloomerang

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. You could have pitched this in a press release to an editor. Maybe it’s a PDF download. Repurpose it into an Instagram story. Put it in a story. Take a video.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. The Forecasts for 2012. The Decline of PCs.

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