Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 15, 2018

Tweet your new content (with a photo attached to maximize the probability of getting retweeted). The 2018 Global Trends in Giving Survey is an annual research project that seeks to gain a better understanding of how donors worldwide prefer to give and engage with their favorite causes and charitable organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2012

Last month I did a Networked NGO training in Dubai for Pakistan NGOs where I experienced Internet censorship first hand. My colleague, Stephanie Rudat, who is working with me on the project, and I decided that the we needed to “ How To Get Past Internet Censorship ” review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. The bootcamps will be an opportunity for the ngos they trained to meet and share knowledge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

They will tweet constantly and upload their photo-led blog stories every day between May 11-22. Before they head home, they will train the local community and the NGO partner how to use a Flip video and digital camera so update can continue. Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Follow LearnAsOne on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

An Instagram Photo and Video Essay. Known as the International City of Peace and Justice, there are more than 160 NGOs in Den Haag working to make the world a better place. A photo posted by Nonprofit Organizations (@nonprofitorgs) on Oct 17, 2016 at 5:01am PDT. by Heather Mansfield. HagueDayTrip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Photo Editing Tools. For advanced for photo editing, the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan provides users access to numerous Adobe photo editing tools, such as Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC. For 100% free photos, see Viralsweep. Adobe Creative Cloud Photography :: adobe.com/creativecloud. PicMonkey :: picmonkey.com.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

With a successful photo-essay or multimedia piece, organizations can attract partners, appeal to donors and grantmakers, influence policymakers, and perhaps most importantly, drive a movement. Masi’s images of The Bhopal Medical Appeal were featured on the New York Times Lens Blog and TIME Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

.” Others offered some good practical advice: Post an unusual (but relevant) photo. Post some inspiring New Year messages and photos to let people know we’re back after holidays. That always gets folks talking and sharing. Get that editorial calendar up and running.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Photo by @sdarine. Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m very interested in seeing how this thinking can be applied more broadly to the social good and nonprofit sector. Stay tuned.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. The Goldmine Project is sharing a, well, goldmine of knowledge around what makes for a successful nonprofit consultant and organization relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

The participants work together in small groups, ask questions and discuss problems, and work together to find solutions and initiate joint projects. The event was organized by Appleseeds Academy , an Israeli NGO that works to reduce social gaps in Israel through the use of tech tools and the development of life skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Photo by Be Chandra. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s become abundantly clear over the past year – through both successes and mis-steps –that the human rights implications of new technologies that requires thinking by companies and advocates, sometimes together and sometimes vigorously independently (as for example with the rich variety of autonomous media projects).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath is one of 19 college students being sponsored for college through a program of the Sharing Foundation , an ngo that works directly with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to identify and carry out projects which improve the lives of children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). Marcelo projected the screen of a game called “Scream and Run” a Zoombie game where you scream and it nukes the zoombies. Mentions on #nobelprize2014 at Trendmaps, Amaizing!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We are poised to grow not only Bookshare.org, but all of our projects. In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. Miradi Bookshare.org isn't our only project undergoing significant growth. We've just launched Miradi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2008

Flickr Photo. He is now a Program Director for the NGO he works for in Phnom Penh. One of his new projects will be a IT & Youth program for Youth Council of Cambodia and he is seeking advice about laptops for the rural provinces. I've known Mean Lux through his blog for 3 years, but we got to meet last summer.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

For those organizations with staff in the field, it's a missed opportunity to not collect stories, photos, video, and audio. So when Angie Milton, a Forum One Project Officer, decided to take a six-month sabbatical to volunteer in Nicaragua, we realized that it was time for us to eat our own dog food.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It also uses both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

Photo by LaurieLou. If you are thinking you want to volunteer your time, Natalie Jesionka has a post on Our World titled " Responding to Burma Crisis " that includes a list of opportunities to travel to the Burmese border and volunteer your time and energy to the underground grassroots NGO activity. Project Enlighten.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

This NGO runs a primary day school, a residential high school, and a residential polytechnic college. They’re a great example of an NGO that really knows their IT. In this project, the Candlelighters CyberKids program provides young cancer patients with a laptop with Microsoft Windows and Office. Want to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2005

Inspired by Marnie's musings, Deborah Finn suggests that flickr is great source of highly quality nonprofit stock images, although suggests understanding how flickr creative common licenses work before plunking photos into a powerpoint. So, as an experiment, I've put a post on Cambodia4kids and we will see what happens. More to think about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

An interview Mari Velasco, Lorene Staka, and Joanna Eng of the Idealist Photos in flickr The Idealist , a project of Action Without Borders ,connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a better world. During our commute uptown he very, very briefly told me about the Imagine project and I was intrigued.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Photo by Mark Horvath. Some times they go on to form their own nonprofits like Amanda Rose and Manny Hernandez and like Mark Horvath has for his Invisible People and WeAreVisible project. He made a great point that social media expertise isn’t the only thing that free agents bring to a partnership with an NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

story and photo via Ricardo's Blog. She told Craig about her project and demonstrated how the electronic glove works. He is interested in NGO activities, including youth leadership and education. I follow his delicious tag stream and enjoy his flickr photos , particularly those depicting South American landscape and culture.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2006

The podcast, Frontline Reports will feature emergency updates from Doctors without Borders projects all over the world. Foundations need to see nonprofits and NGO's having a podcast or blog, in addition to traditional communication tools, as part of the nonprofit or NGO's mission. Photo via wayfaring stranger's Flickr stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I tried very hard to use Cambodian photos and images in the curriculum, but was not able to find something that represented tagging. Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out. Photos from Thomas Wanhaff. During the Web2.0 workshop, I spoke about tagging. john, u think i???m

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Victoria, Canada: Heartbeats & Remarkable: Building a Winning Communications Strategy for Your NGO. Victoria, Canada: NGO HO HO: A holiday party for Victoria’s non-profits. We held our first NetSquared Camp in China and co-organizer Matt Jung reports on innovative Chinese tech for good projects. Tuesday, December 3.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

Learning to Improvise Can be Life-Changing , from The Detroit Creativity Project , demonstrates the highest level of technical production and takes the audience on a stirring, heartfelt journey into Detroit's schools. This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. I will be preparing a separate post about this project. They also have an advocacy role on behalf of ngos. It was very moving.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Their use of joyful photos of individuals or small groups helps personalize the program descriptions, as does highlighting an employee’s efforts, like those of Margaret Mary Debre, PoP’s Lead WASH Coordinator in Ghana. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great. Natural Resource Defense Council.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Instagram's blog is a good place to see how nonprofits and NGOs are using the app. That was also one of Forrester's 2013 cloud forecasts as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

In this photo, Pagna is on the left. Photo by Thomas Wanhaff. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. Kong Sidaroth coordinates the Open Institute's Women and E-learning project (two separate projects).

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