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Website hosting in Thailand for flourishing online business

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

There are a number of website hosting companies in Thailand which offer their clients various kinds of packages to choose from depending upon their business requirement. The packages the Thailand based web hosting companies offer varies mostly in terms of the amount of disk space and the size of monthly data transfer.

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Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of our longtime Martus partners in Thailand, The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ( ND-Burma ). ND-Burma, a Thailand-based coalition of over ten human rights groups, has been collecting narrative testimonies from victims and witnesses of human rights abuses by the Burmese regime.

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Southeast Asia, Social Enterprise Accidental Tour!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just spent almost three weeks in Thailand and Laos on a combined work and vacation trip. Bangkok, Thailand (and other locations). The man behind Cabbages and Condoms is Mechai Viravaidya , founder of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (“PDA”). Cabbages and Condoms.

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What is glutathione and hwo it helps everyone?

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

Buy the best quality glutathione in Thailand. Now that you have an idea of how much important glutathione is for your body, it is time that you get your glutathione supplement from the very best vendor in Thailand.

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20 Must-Know Fundraising and Social Media Stats

Nonprofit Tech for Good

53% of Asia Pacific citizens donate to charity, with those in Thailand (71%) more likely to do so and those in Japan the least likely (16%). Source: Money for Good. 84% of Canadians donate to charity with an average individual donation of $446 per year. Source: OnGood. Source: MasterCard.

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. I followed up the Chiang Mai gathering with other meetings with Thailand-based Martus users, and just touched down in New York.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. ” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.”

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She met us at the airport and dropped our bags off at our hotel and took us to a major crafts fair being held outside of town (where we saw products produced by numerous social enterprises: more on the social enterprise action in Laos and Thailand in my next post).

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Best Airtel prepaid international roaming plans for traveling abroad

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

Airtel prepaid international roaming plans cover famous international destinations including the United States, France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand. Popular Airtel prepaid international roaming packs. Airtel has a variety of International roaming plans.

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Big News in Benetech's Human Rights Program: New Funding and Enhanced Tools!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) to realize some of those possibilities.

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What I Learned About Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Social Impact at IFCAsia in Bangkok

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. Her report touched on the need for sector collaboration, celebrating mistakes and failures, and innovation.

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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. Miradi should help them achieve their goals.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup Blog

As an independent filmmaker, Windy has produced and directed promotional videos, films, and documentaries, including “The Tillamook Burn” (2003), “The ‘D’ Word: Understanding Dyslexia” (Sundance 2012), and “The Eyes of Thailand” (2012). Windy founded D.V.A.

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Latest global social, digital, mobile data for ya

AFP Blog

For other reports in this series, please visit [link] H/T to Social Fish'

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Building Your Blog Audience: Answering Fern Thai's Question

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are a volunteer matching organization working a village in Thailand and if you're looking to volunteer in Thailand, you should check them out!) I "met" or rather connected with Tony from Fern Thai through Facebook (I think). Tony was kind enough to help promote the America's Giving Challenge to his community on MySpace.

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Thanks to Andy Carvin: Enjoy Kong Nay Video!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

who will be doing some video blogging in Cambodia and Thailand. Click To Play. I'm packing up the video cameras that Doug donated and the I'm sending over. to Jay Dedman and Ryanne H. I just stumbled upon this video that Andy Carvin captured of Kong Nay. My kids love him. I wish we were there. Read Andy's post.

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Fundraising Video by Jonny Goldstein for Project Hope

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While making the video I was honored to meet Thailand???s Jonny notes: One of them is this fundraising video for Christina Arnold, who runs a Project Hope International, a nonprofit which works preventing human trafficking in the US and in Southeast Asia. condom king???

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Help Blog.Worm spread!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From my Enda , my blogger friend in Thailand.

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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup Blog

She studied the German, Czech, and Spanish languages and has lived and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia, including Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Dress snazzy if you like, to be red-carpet ready.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup Blog

As an independent filmmaker, Windy has produced and directed promotional videos, films, and documentaries, including “The Tillamook Burn” (2003), “The ‘D’ Word: Understanding Dyslexia” (Sundance 2012), and “The Eyes of Thailand” (2012). Windy founded D.V.A.

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Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch

Amy Sample Ward

Like you, the contributors are from a vast array of places in the world from Stockholm, Brussels, and London to Thailand, Australia, and Uganda, and include Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, NYC, Los Angeles, Houston, Cleveland, Chicago, and Boston. I expect that you, the viewers and participants, are a wide range of people too.

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Video Blogging from Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman were in Cambodia and are in Thailand right now. Click to Play. They are traveling with Christina Arnold from Project Hope to document her project. Here's the backstory about how they got there, etc.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand. WBU is the global organization representing the estimated 285 million people worldwide with vision impairments. The organization’s priorities are decided upon at the WBU General Assembly, which is held every four years.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Facebook and Twitter are still the biggest social networks in the world but you still need to set up different accounts to target each market. Be relevant. Trends in technology change quickly.

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What Is TechSoup Up To in Asia (Now)?

Tech Soup Blog

We’ve also launched a NetSquared Local in Singapore, and are working to include the Philippines and Thailand in the near future. TechSoup Asia currently offers product donations from our donating partners Microsoft, Symantec, and SAP, as well as relevant and useful content to NGOs in Singapore and Malaysia.

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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. would you rather connect with a group or individual in need half way around the world?

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

The organization operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Dominican Republic and India and also has offices in three donor nations: United States, Australia and New Zealand.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup Blog

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family.

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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. GATC mission “is to bridge cultures in conflict through the arts and to create innovative arts-education programs around the world.&#. Wendy’s work was just written about in the Bangkok Post.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

Have Fun - Do Good

The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

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Floss Manuals and Open Source Video Editing Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too. David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

CA: Without giving names, along the Thai-Burma border there is a project that we're funding with a fantastic former Thai Senator, Mechai Viravaidya, who is also the Chairman and Founder of the Population Community Development Association of Thailand. Wanting to do something to help change that has been a long journey. It started out small.

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New Year’s Resolutions for Grantmakers

Connection Cafe

Britain didn’t adopt January 1 as the New Year until 1752; Thailand didn’t until 1941. Neil isn’t wrong. January 1 st is neither an equinox, nor is it the winter solstice; it misses that by nearly a fortnight.

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

Have Fun - Do Good

Pearl has profiled 9 women in 9 countries: Cambodia: Somaly Mam, a former sex worker who founded Acting for Women in Distressing Situations , an organization that rescues sex workers in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and gives them job training.

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Creating a Movement, Addressing Inequality

Achieve

She spent half of her senior year traveling the world again, backpacking through places like Indonesia, Thailand, and Southeast Asia. . , returned from her first study-abroad experience in college, she realized she’d caught the travel bug, and it wasn’t going away. These trips were different from what she had witnessed in countries in Europe.

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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. Nancy White writes about the Future of Learning in a Networked World self-financed learning journey. You can read more about the campaign on their blog.

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World of Good Launches Fair Trade Wage Guide

Have Fun - Do Good

We have had women's groups write us from Thailand and say, 'We make these beautiful weavings that take us days, and we earned a really high price for them, and we thought, "Wow, this is what is really making us money."

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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl

Have Fun - Do Good

It would be legitimate for him to be scared; aren't we all? But was there a way he could genuinely feel hopeful instead?"

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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. 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. This article was originally published at: [link].

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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

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. Ruby found the perfect visual to explain trolls in appropriate behavior online. What do you think? Here's a growing list. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ?

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