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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

The strategists – located in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and London – are: Beth Kanter, a longtime trainer and advisor to the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and other organizations. Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Using Social Networking Tools - Advice, Brief Case Study, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SaveGuimaras is a group of individuals who are dedicated to raising awareness on the recent oil-spill tragedy in Guimaras, Philippines. Friendster is a very popular social network in the Philippines. Mobile technology is more popular in the Philippines and we are looking into how we could use this platform. BTW, we are the no.

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The Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: Content Marketing, Tangible Support, and Batkid

Connection Cafe

Support in the Philippines is needed and this post has compiled a list of nonprofit organizations providing aid. On the NTEN blog, Lauren Giardin says it’s time to Take Charge of Your Editorial Process as Air Traffic Control. Close to 11 million have been affected by the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan. Every dollar helps.

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Guest Post by JD Lasica -- Socialbrite: A new sharing & learning hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Katrin Verclas, founder and editor-in-chief of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN. Sloane Berrent, a Kiva fellow, social philanthropy activist and a former executive at Causecast who’s currently serving a three-month tour in the Philippines.

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MCON13 Live Blog: The Millennial Movement (Jose Antonio Vargas, Define American)

NTEN

I was born in the Philippines. So the cover photo had 35 people from many different countries: Israel, Peru, the Philippines, China, Guatemala. I sent a film crew to Philippines to film my mom – so it''s intense because I''ve seen more of her editing the footage in these past four months than I have in 20 years. Uh, Facebook."

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Nonprofits Must Fight Stereotypes When Using New Technologies to Save Lives

NTEN

Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in November 2013, killing more than 6,000 people. Innovation and adoption of new technologies is not without controversy. For example: How does your nonprofit leadership feel about unmanned aerial vehicles?

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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