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Great reads from around the web on June 29th

Amy Sample Ward

New SMS Services in Uganda from Grameen, Google & MTN | WhiteAfrican - Interested in new technologies, esepcially mobile tech and the health sector? Tags: roundup bookmarks. "This morning I googled the phrase “collaboration is a good thing,&# and found 2,650 results. " Join in!

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Botswana's Elections and the Use of Social Media

Tech Soup

While they note that their use of social media tools is behind countries like Nigeria, Uganda, or South Africa, there are promising signs that individuals like journalists and students are using such tools to monitor and report on the ongoing elections. One blogger in particular, Patricia Maganu, notes that: read more.

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Social Media Marketing for NPOs: Give Your Organization a Voice

ASU Lodestar Center

In less than 2 months, the YouTube video has gained over 100 million views and educated millions about the crimes of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Using Hootsuite will allow you to publish to all of your social channels from one dashboard, as well as monitor any mentions, tags, or conversations that are relevant to your organization.

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Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reeta Roy , president and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation, is sending tweets from her site visit to Uganda and Kenya. Reeta is currently in Uganda, where she’s learning first-hand about the Foundation’s partnerships and programs. The Many Challenges of a CEO Blog from Jeremiah Owyang. Tags: india twitter.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. Tags: Fundraising Guest Post. While video can be expensive to produce, it can also produce large returns. One way to make video more affordable is to reuse existing assets.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

From @pelleaardema: A very small, local initiative: 3 community projects in Uganda, trying to conquer malaria [link]. Tags: community events 4change chat community buiding community organizing global livechat local twitter. People now share videos and pics and are great ambassadors/advocates for the zoo and it’s program.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

In Uganda, we worked with the ministry of health to convert the form, used for clinic based weekly disease reporting, to one that can be SMSed in. Tags: Data Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff. In the 180 clinics spanning two districts where the system has been tested, we’ve been getting roughly a 90% reporting rate.

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