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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does that mean your social media is international? Just because you can translate a Facebook status update from English into Cantonese using a Google tool doesn’t mean that you should, nor is it an effective part of an international social media strategy. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Probably not.

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How Nonprofits Practice Continuous Improvement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m just back from spending a week in Bangkok, Thailand at the IFC-ASIA: Ecosystems for Good. This was a simple post event debrief and internal evaluation to look at ways to improve it in the next year. I’m just back from spending a week in Bangkok, Thailand at the IFC-ASIA: Ecosystems for Good. What is your process?

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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

Tharum has served as a communications director for a number of international NGOs based in Cambodia, but recently launched his own communications agency. 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.

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Fundraising Video by Jonny Goldstein for Project Hope

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My friend Jonny Goldstein made this amazing video for Project Hope International. 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. While making the video I was honored to meet Thailand???s

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand. Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field.

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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. UniversalGiving proved to be a great advocate for my organization.&# - Michael Hayes of Solar Cookers International.

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Wendy Sternberg Leaves Her Medical Career to Heal the World

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Wendy Sternberg left her successful internal medicine practice in Evanston Illinois because she decided she could better heal the world through Genesis at the Crossroads (GATC), an organization she founded. People often become doctors because they want to heal people, and by extension, heal the world.