Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. David Lavenda wrote this excellent article in Fast Company about the history of the Post-It notes and their potential for becoming a killer innovation technology. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Instead, what if technology could prevent some of the destruction and improve aid delivery after a disaster? A new report called Technology for Good: Innovative Use of Technology by Charities identifies ten technologies that are already having this kind of impact in the world. The Difference Technology Makes.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

Likely, most of this growth will come from China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Technology is constantly on the move and best practices will continue to shift for everything digital, but all-in-all, considering a mobile-first approach today is still relevant and still worth the effort. billion people across the globe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Scarcity, as the conference heard in the morning from Stephanie McAuliffe, can have a very positive effect — in her example producing a crucial collaboration to support post-abortion women in Pakistan. Steve Downs is the chief technology and information officer at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The opening session started with the lighting of a lamp and welcome from NASSCOM officials to the crowded ballroom fill with 1600 conference attendees from 27 countries, including a delegation from Pakistan. It showcases projects that demonstrate best practices in technology in the area of social change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2006

Rod Beckstrom, prominent Silicon Valley tech executive, was in Pakistan during the great quake (although not in the quake zone when the big one hit). He passed along some interesting requirements that are well worth thinking about. I am sure that Rod's concept is doable: may be being done already deep inside Google!

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2012

This is not surprising since 2010 was a watershed year for many international nonprofits due to the 163% spike in fundraising around relief following the Haiti earthquake and flooding in Pakistan. On average, online monthly giving accounted for 8% of total online revenue in 2011, up from 5% in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Certificate Awards - Pakistan NGOs. Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. Closing Circle.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

technology all the time. technological tools for what we need increases and the mobile is no. established groups on SMSall in Pakistan. For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

But wait, are people in developing areas, and even rural areas, even getting access to the web and/or to mobile technology? While technologies are growing and becoming more influential, I realized that their priority in international development is still unsettled.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Utilizing SAP (the official campaign analytics partner) business analytics technology, the dashboards create greater transparency and awareness around population data and trends. In my country of origin, Pakistan, half the population is under the age of 19. Available to the general public at www.7billionactions.org/data

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

I've been opening a lot of talks about how nonprofits can use the social web with a line from his book, "Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies -- it happens when society adopts new behaviors." tools, it was about how Web 2.0 tools can, and are changing our world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. Technology is a dehumanizing. Online network work in general is people work.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

In the aftermath of that quake, as well as flooding in Pakistan, fires in Israel, flooding in South and Central America, and countless other incidents, technology played a critical and often-life-saving role, and remains at the center of the ongoing advocacy and long-term rebuilding work in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Yesterday, I had the honor of participating in the 4th annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit that brings together women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. How is technology improving the everyday lives of women and girls in these countries?

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