Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2012

Note from Beth: I have the honor of leading a “Networked NGO Training” in Delhi for grantees of the Packard Foundation and have lined up some guest posts to supplement my reports from India. The Collective Impact of Love guest post by Stefan Lanfer, Barr Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The opening plenary was hosted by the renowned Usha Menon , past chair of the Resource Alliance and celebrated speaker, connector and consultant to the social impact sector. Her report touched on the need for sector collaboration, celebrating mistakes and failures, and innovation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Preliminary results from the 2015 NGO Global Technology Survey reveal that social media is increasingly a primary source of online giving inspiration, but social media calls-to-follow were rarely integrated into the donation and “Thank you” process, and if they were, they were visually underwhelming. Mercy Corps.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

My days as an Ally are behind me, but the passion remains: in December of 2012 I found myself on a plane bound for a Tanzanian NGO. Toting my understanding of international development, and my NGO experience, I figured I knew to expect the unexpected. In fact, the NGO was led by them. Local problems, local solutions. I got this.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

On International Human Rights Day, we pay tribute to all human rights defenders, celebrate the recent victories of the human rights community, and recognize the challenges that still lie ahead in the global struggle to advance justice, accountability and an end to impunity. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2008

He is now a Program Director for the NGO he works for in Phnom Penh. It looks like both of us lots to celebrate! I've known Mean Lux through his blog for 3 years, but we got to meet last summer. He just emailed me to let me know that he got a promotion.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students. There were a total of 12 NGOs present at the event, including the Maharashtra Dyslexia Association and the Sujaya Foundation , which provides educational services to underprivileged youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

And Toronto celebrated their first official Blockchain Week April 22-28. This was a fascinating conference, and the possibilities for positive social impact using blockchain and AI in the nonprofit/NGO and social enterprise space are already real, and growing. The beautiful, artistic streets of downtown Toronto, Canada.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Rather than only tweeting about its services, @OnGood curates good content tweeted by other NGOs by retweeting their tweets. This strategy adds variety to their feed, engages their followers, builds credibility with the NGO sector, and eliminates the risk of appearing to over-market their services by only tweeting about themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

In the mean time the San Francisco, California team began to scream and celebrate??? He is interested in NGO activities, including youth leadership and education. The person presenting the award said ???San San Francisco?????? and hesitated to say ???del only to hear her name as the winner. She went on stage when Craig invited her up.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

"When the ‘celebrity’ hacker rings like Anonymous and Luzlsec see the challenge as the CIA (and allegedly succeed), what chance do we really stand? TechSoup Global has conducted our own international NGO cloud survey across 88 countries and the results will be out in the early fall. I hope you stay tuned for that.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

The video Join the Breakthrough Generation from the organization Breakthrough utilizes animation (and celebrity) to a dynamic effect. First, we want to thank every nonprofit and NGO who submitted. Best Use of Animation — Join the Breakthrough Generation. Please visit the site to view this video).

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AFP Blog

MARCH 14, 2012

Microsoft launches TechSoup in PHL | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere : As Microsoft Philippines celebrated NGO (non-government organization) Connection Day, it simultaneously launched TechSoup Asia which aims to help organizations acquire technology information and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

" Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. Steve overheard this about another faceted celebrity in the NpTech world, "I first decided Jon Stahl was a legend in this community when. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Paul Lamb might.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. Tharum became a celebrity blogger when his blog was featured on the front page of the Cambodia Daily (the photo above was taken during that interview).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The combination of new middle class wealth with the legacy of public distrust of charities has given rise to giving practices that seek to bypass the official NGO sector. Though these funds are registered as NGOs, they pride themselves on having zero administrative costs. Direct help or assistance funds are mushrooming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications, including the Stanford Innovation Review, Asian NGO, NPEngage, Guidestar, Giving Compass and others. It requires carving out time to think, dream, celebrate, give gratitude, and build upon your life and work. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. My Three Themes: .

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. The World Wide Web Turns 25. This 25 th. What the heck.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Celebrities including Elon Musk, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, and Miley Cyrus have shared refaced videos. Reface Reface applies AI/ML technologies for personalized content creation. The Reface app hit #1 in the App Store soon after release and was listed among the best apps of 2020 by Google Play. Claims 250M downloads (+70M / 38% growth).

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Maybe you shouldn''t look for an NGO "out there" but ask their employees and own audience what causes THEY care about. The manifesto is our Trojan Horse – it helps us go in and ask personal questions, helps us help them think of areas they might not think about celebrating. NH: What challenge is ahead and how will you meet it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

see here ) In celebration of International Women's Day, Joe's Blog showcases some games that are designed to teach us about this issue, along with ways to support NGO's doing work in this area. Check out this disaster simulation game from the UNISDR called Stop Disasters !

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

According to the Global NGO Online Technology Report , Millennials are most inspired to give by social media. Celebrate their accomplishments annually with a thank you party/dinner/reception/etc. Celebrate their milestones. Arrange meet-and-greets with celebrities at events. Encourage them to use their social network.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. For instance, users can pin images for planning a conference, celebrating volunteers, or encourage their supporters to pin images related to a topic for. Monthly giving programs in particular have seen explosive growth, with revenue growing by 43 percent.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. For instance, users can pin images for planning a conference, celebrating volunteers, or encourage their supporters to pin images related to a topic for social change. Twitter followers increased dramatically, with 264 percent growth over the past year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. Her owner reached out to celebrities to take selfies with the dog and posted them on Instagram. . ”FB can be a catalyst and lever to tackle wicked problems.”

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

Whether you’re a small community organization or a large international NGO, selecting the right technology is key for achieving fundraising success in 2024. Your supporters want to see the human side of your organization, celebrate your victories with you, and understand the real impact of their contributions.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. Try throwing a holiday or season-themed gala to celebrate both the holiday season and your cause! We saw a 108% increase in dollars raised on the Qgiv platform and a 100% increase in the total number of donations to our clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2009

If you've been reading my blog in the last week, you know that in eight days I will be celebrating my 52nd Birthday. Send a poor Cambodian youngster to school, provide employment for young women in Cambodia, and help celebrate my birthday! . This nonprofit helps to care for children in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” Organizations raised almost $125,000 through integrated social media campaigns from donors. 12 training centers have been established.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. I think that they should follow the NGO trends and follow people like you who are doing really good work in the space.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. Now, and I can even speak from my own experience, the majority of the time I spend on social media is connecting with brands, and celebrities, and causes that I’ve never met.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We sang, we danced, and we celebrated what it means to have access to a resource that is so much more than just a resource. The level of joy and celebration was unforgettable because of what we were making happen, and the history we were making each day that we were there. This training was tremendous. It is about human rights.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We expanded this year to be able to provide product donations to pretty much any NGO in the world — 236 countries and territories to be exact. It appears that a fair number of these predictions (on mobile payments, cloud computing, collaboration tools, and crowdfunding) have actually come true. It was a big year for TechSoup itself.

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