Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

It wasn’t simply about throwing money at an international issue - it was about listening to local problems, local solutions, and local thought. I learned I could and should offer assistance to local citizens who asked for it. Local problems, local solutions. I worked with a locally founded (and inspiring!)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had more time to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. What Are the Biggest Barriers to More Widespread NGO Migration to the Cloud? Find the first and second post in this series online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Local connections built through engagement. Organizers in local community own the agenda. As Marnie Webb put it, to participate in this network, you simply has to raise your hand and be willing to meet people in a bar to talk about social media and social change. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

But, in my experience, this is merely because those who rule the business strategy domain don’t speak the language of mission driven organizations, who are put off by any attempt to reduce their work to fit onto forms and spreadsheets. They are speaking the language of people, and empathy, and systemic change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

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. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. English is increasingly favored as a second language. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When those NGOs receive funding they usually know how to use the funds very efficiently and are able to grow. Those initial fundings rarely come from online donations, most are community-based initiatives, companies, and local government incentives. Nonprofits don’t have to pay a service fee, only the payment processing fee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. There are different types of NGOS in the Arab World. One was described as a “classic&# NGO that is less likely to be open to networked model and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. It was difficult to learn to the language at first! How does your NGO use technology to support your advocacy and education work? Mlup Baitong???s

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. " Local Community Organizers Affinity Group. And it works for nonprofits too! Claire Sale. Details here.). Find NetSquared at NTC.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. Sometimes, it’s having the solution use local languages or other appropriate cultural marks. Pictures or colors that evoke locality and ownership can help. The users of the tools must feel as if they own the solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. why do you give all of us the angkunh???

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. Sigida Keneyali means “Health in Our Homes” in Bambara, the most common language in Mali.

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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. You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts. Team up with local news. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I created some template language to cut and paste into emails, skype/im pings, and thank you messaging, etc. I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign. What happens if you don't like the way the personal fundraiser has represented your NGO? It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger. What do you do?

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

How to Launch a Social Media and Content Strategy for Your NGO OnGood / Webinar / Fee: Free. If you are looking for face-to-face meetings in your area, check out the list of 501Tech Clubs on NTEN and on Netsquared Local. July 9 — 2 p.m. Make It Rain: Using Google AdWords to Drive Impact Techsoup / Webinar / Fee: Free.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. That can mean, for example, language; it can mean architecture; it can mean food; it can mean artisan work, or artistic work. So, in that case, they're overwhelming local markets with American product.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. For nonprofit social media managers that work internationally, Dulingo’s design and gamification make it fun to learn the basics of a new language. For small regional nonprofits, the service could be used for local events and regular meetups. MeetUp :: meetup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

For small regional nonprofits, the service could be used for local events and regular meetups. Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. For nonprofit social media managers that work internationally, Dulingo’s design and gamification make it fun to learn the basics of a new language. MeetUp :: meetup.com.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. So WhatsApp is available in multiple languages. So you can download the app in any language almost. The second step is talk to people in their language. for a while.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Martus is available in seven languages , including in Dari and Farsi which are commonly spoken in Afghanistan. Martus will protect their sensitive documentation by encrypting it on the local hard drive and automatically backing it up to remote servers if organizations wish to do so. Their meticulous work is now a key aid to the courts.

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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. He worked as a content editor for the Khmer language portal. What about the introduction of Khmer-Language software?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

You have to know who you’re talking to, and you have to speak their language, and you have to gain their trust. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. So we’re going to talk a lot about that today.

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