Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I brought to India to place it in the hands of Rufina Fernandez , CEO of Nasscom Foundation. I'm sure that after she is finished reading it, she will spread the ideas all over India. I purchased a copy and read it when it first came out, but rather than write a review I wanted to do something special for the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? They start the day with a student posting an inspirational quote on the board. You turn the globe to any time and see what time it is another part of the world compared to India. How deep is the Pacific Ocean?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2013

In the post-film Q&A, Iram said she aspired to do for Pakistan what Slum Dog Millionaire did for India. Iram is mainly pinning her hopes on festivals and a theatrical release in Pakistan and India. She succeeds in showing us, rather than telling, something true and challenging. If you get a chance to see this film, take it!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Judy Heumann (left) moderating the panel on empowering the world''s billion people with disabilities On the second day of the CGI Annual Meeting, I announced Benetech’s Commitment to Action : Leveraging Technology to Bring Books to the Blind in India. Our commitment was selected as an exemplary approach to addressing a global challenge.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2021

India is currently experiencing a dramatic spike in COVID-19 deaths and cases, and the situation there remains dire. Earlier this month, it was reported that one in three new cases reported globally were occurring in the country. As of Thursday, June 10, more than 363,000 people have died. billion people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

Thus far, more than 75 countries have signed the Treaty, and in June India became the first country to ratify it. We hope that many other countries will follow India’s ratification. The Treaty will take effect only after 20 ratifications are presented to WIPO. Its signature period has now ended.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

4) China currently has the highest population in the world, however, by 2050 India will be the most populated country at 1,676 million (compared to China’s 1,387 million). Source: United Nations Population Fund. In the coming decades as wealth rises in Asia, so will philanthropy and with it a second wave of online activism and giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In India over 14,000 children got infected in 2011, with a 13 per cent decline from 2009. New HIV infections in children are down, but reaching the goal of an AIDS-free generation requires that more HIV positive pregnant women receive antiretroviral treatment to decrease the risk of infection for their babies.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Joy of Giving Week is a "festival of philanthropy" held October 2 through 8 all over India in conjunction with Mohandas Gandhi's birthday. To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Save the Children Gifts of Joy: From ornaments handmade in India to the sponsorship of a girl’s education in a developing nation to providing health snacks at school to children in the United States, Save the Children has put a together a great online catalog for giving this holiday season

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2014

Wildlife SOS – India. I’ve also had the good fortune to meet Heather as she regularly travels across the continents to teach NGOs about how to effectively use mobile and social media. No doubt Mobile for Good will also become invaluable to NGOs worldwide.” ” Vinay Datla. Director of Communications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

9:30am IST (Ahmedabad): NGOBOX (India). . – Share resources, such as ebooks, blog posts, and articles about NGO technology that you think would be useful to the followers of the Twitter Takeover. Schedule of Twitter Takeovers on September 26: 10am AEST (Melbourne): Pro Bono Australia. 11am IST (Dublin): Digital Charity Lab (Ireland).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Many of the publishers do provide us with permissions do not have global rights, and limit the availability of these books to certain jurisdictions • We first launched international Bookshare in India and have more than 1000 members there, as well as permissions agreements with more than ten publishers in India • We have recently concluded agreements (..)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that. I understand from our peers in India that he was also essential in the passing of India’s recent copyright exception.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media. Tags: india.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. The Rise of Messaging Apps. The world’s most popular messaging apps are WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Viber. 1 in 3 use WeChat Pay in China. Facebook Messenger Payments are primarily accepted in the United States and Europe. Snapcash launched in 2004, but it is not widely used.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2017

Wildlife SOS , based in India, also requires donors to choose whether they want their donation to be processed in U.S. Of the 25 nonprofits donated to, 22 have a monthly giving option featured on their donation page. Two of the 25 had monthly giving set as the default on their donation page. Dollars, Euros, British Pounds, or Indian Rupees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In the rural region of Ranipet in Tamil Nadu, India, 500 Bookshare texts, which had their spines removed for scanning, have been acquired by the Vedavalli Vidyalaya school. After books are scanned and uploaded into the digital Bookshare library, they are still used in their printed form by readers around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. This year they have a record registration of 1650 delegates from India and other countries from around the world. It will be interesting to compare the perspective from India. Tags: india. Not too late to add some thoughts!).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger. As part of this project, we are working with our lead Indian partner, the DAISY Forum of India, as well as other Indian disability organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Situated on the banks of the Vellayani fresh water lake, on the outskirts on Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India , IISE is a testimony to social enterprise at its very best. The participants would get hands on training at a non profit organization in India and will train in all aspects of non profit management.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. He's really helped us move forward with our India projects, thanks to our India project manager, Viji Dilip, who joined me there and who has made all of these great Chennai connections for us.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned that in some parts of India everyone has a cell phone but few have indoor plumbing or access to clean water – change is happening. The impacts these people and their organizations make are being felt world-wide. Using technology as a base for knowing change is possible, change is happening. What did I learn last night?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 8, 2008

Virginia and Kate, my wife and daughter, volunteered to come along with me on my one-week trip to South India. South India is famous for its temples. So, I extended it to two weeks and added a trip to Madurai as part of that. After visiting Aravind Eye Hospital and Aurolab, we started on our vacation time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

A specific “WhatsApp Pay” feature is set to be introduced in India (home of 400 million WhatsApp users) this month, but Facebook has not yet announced where else that feature might be rolled out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2009

This is a guy who as his daughter put it, piled books onto a little vegetable cart and trundled it into the market place so that the common man in small town India would be exposed to the literature of Tolstoy, Gibran, Ruskin and others. Tags: India Meghani Bookshare Gujarati. And he worked to abridge and translate much of their work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I went to their map and quickly found some other leading social entrepreneurs that are part of the PWX network, folks I've had the pleasure of meeting many times in the past decade, people like Joe Madiath of Gram Vikas in Orissa, India, and Bunker Roy of the Barefoot College in northern India. You're known by the company you keep!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be somewhere in the air between California and India to facilitate a “Networked NGO” training for NGOs in India that are Packard Foundation grantees. More about that later. But I have some exciting news! My article is the lead story in the June, 2012 NTEN Change Journal !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples. Tags: india twitter.

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JULY 29, 2022

In the mid-19th Century, the East India Company needed a physical space to store their piles and piles of ledgers, forms and other important artifacts that managed their transactions all over the world. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.”

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MAY 12, 2014

Ranging from 75% in the last month in US, to 17% in India Nielsen – “The mobile Consumer” (Feb 2013). Only text messaging was more popular (92%) Nielsen – “The mobile Consumer” (Feb 2013). The percentage of people that use on E-mail on their smartphone is very different per country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I've just returned from a trip to India where there is a different approach to solving complex social problems using social media and the Internet. He told me about their crowd sourcing for social good strategy to find an affordable, and clean energy solution for India's poor population. How can these goals be balanced?

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