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Climate Warming and Palo Alto -> Miradi and the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rare is working in Abaco Island in the Bahamas to protect critically threatened species like the Spiny Lobster, Eastern Steppe Mongolia to help save the Mongolian gazelle among other species; and Uthaithanee, Thailand to save the Indochinese tiger. Tags: climate change trees Miradi Blog Action Day Palo Alto environment biodiversity.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand.

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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether it is through a search engine like Google or Baidu , a hashtag via social media, or a tag to use in a You Tube video then it is making your work more visible to your target market. Liverpool Football Club in the UK for example, uses a separate account to talk to its fans in Thailand, and another to talk to its fans in America.

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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

People simply choose a country of interest (such as China or Thailand) and an area of interest (such as education or the environment) and find a list of vetted opportunities to which they can donate money or give their time. Tags: case studies socialchange impact philanthropy socialactions universalgiving. Connect & Learn more.

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Wendy Sternberg Leaves Her Medical Career to Heal the World

See3

Wendy just spent the several months in Thailand as part of the very exclusive Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University. Tags: see3 peace. GATC mission “is to bridge cultures in conflict through the arts and to create innovative arts-education programs around the world.&#.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This group is an international network of people interested in e-learning, is organizing a trip to Thailand and Laos. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. You can read more about the campaign on their blog.

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

Since this transition, Brooke has enjoyed working on social marketing campaigns in Mongolia, Thailand, and Laos PDR. Tags: Mobile NPTech NTEN Program. In December 2008, Brooke transitioned to a Program Manager role within Rare to directly manage international social marketing campaigns being implemented on a grassroots level.