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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are working very closely with Dr. Yasmeen Qazi who is the Pakistan Country Advisor and her very talented team members, Dr. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. organizational change, and technology.

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Saving the World One Tech Innovation at a Time

Tech Soup

Relatively new technologies in the report include GPS tracking, mapping, crowdsourcing, cloud technology, portable networks, and drone technology. The report briefly introduces each technology and provides examples of how those technologies are being used. The Difference Technology Makes.

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Telework Cool Tools: SlideRocket

Tech Soup

If you use presentations for fundraising or outreach, note that SlideRocket keeps track of viewer data and provides analytics tools that let you to see how popular a presentation is. This presentation is also a great example of what can be done with multimedia (music and video) in SlideRocket.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. The Muslim world has a population of one and half billion people or just under a quarter of the world’s population. Another interesting fact is that most Muslims don’t live in the Middle East.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What do you track? It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) What domains of impact should be considered (e.g. impact of the crowd-produced product, impact on the crowd / community)? 2) Crowd Creation.

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Give 30 Minutes to Help Pakistan!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 and has been used for many other projects, including tracking disaster relief efforts in Haiti. More recently, the London Tube used it to track disruptions from the Tube strike. They’re looking for volunteers.