Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. .

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MARCH 15, 2017

The TechSoup 17 NTC Social Media Sweepstakes Terms and Conditions (Short). The TechSoup 17 NTC Social Media Sweepstakes Terms and Conditions. Sponsored by TechSoup Global, 435 Brannan St., This Sweepstakes is void for organizations in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria ("U.S. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

A Tweet this week on Iran and on the conventional news coverage there. Each story enters a Sense Making System (a web service and software provided by Cognitive Edge, a global network of practitioners dedicated to helping create meaning and sense in complex situations). Social Development Organizations. .

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Oh, and please do give a thumbs up to the panel Beth and I cooked up: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change ]. scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. The SXSW Interactive Festival.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Ok, now add to the mix a liberal dose of several years of strong economic growth and modernization, a GDP ranked 17 th in the world, a youth population (12 to 24 year olds) representing a third of the total population, and a growing reputation as one of the most promising IT sectors globally, and do you know where that will land you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The audience consisted mostly of social media early adopters who shared terrific insights that come from having a sense of context. Here's a few examples: Shireen Mitchell who I had never met face-to-face but who generously provided information about people of color and the social web via Twitter while I doing a workshop demo.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

During our conversation, I was particularly moved by her revelation that she started Women for Women International not only to fill a social need, but also for her own healing. So, we do different things from microcredit lending, to commercial organic farming, to social enterprises, where the job becomes, how do we help her get a job?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Social media may be changing that across the globe. Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. YouTube is the second most active social media site in the world, followed by Twitter, Google + , LinkedIn , and Pinterest. In technology for good and social media, it’s Sina Weibo or ????. Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

I went to learn from thought-leaders focused on social media and its impact on politics, in the hopes that many of the lessons would be relevant for nonprofits, foundations, grassroots activists, and for our emerging networks practice at the Monitor Institute. Everyone who has Twitter now has a global distribution network.”

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