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Visit Zambia with LearnAsOne!

Amy Sample Ward

Steve Heyes, a colleague and founder of LearnAsOne , has just embarked on a great journey to Zambia and you’re invited! are headed to Zambia to document a community who doesn’t have a school, in as close to real-time as possible. They will tweet constantly and upload their photo-led blog stories every day between May 11-22.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Then I’ll share the latest stories on the impact of our tech volunteerism and human rights tech efforts as well our new tech leadership. Human Rights Our Human Rights Program continues to focus on helping activists and journalists securely document the stories of human rights abuses worldwide.

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Building Common Cause Zambia's Digital Capacity

Tech Soup

For many organizations, a main barrier to digital transformation is the lack of resources to assess what they need and take action on the areas that need investment. TechSoup's Digital Resilience Program addresses these challenges by working with funders to build the digital capacity of the nonprofits they work with.

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Geoff Livingston Guest Post: Follow @childfund and Help Feed Children

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. A goat for a family farm in Zambia. They will share the recipients’ stories and photos with the social web. There is no cap on on followers, and the offer will continue through July 27. . Mango trees in Kenya. Vegetable seeds in Ethiopia.

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How Leaders Use Four Workarounds To Tackle Complex Problems

Eric Jacobsen Blog

You’ll read intriguing and revealing stories of how some of the largest and scrappiest companies and organizations used one or more of the four workarounds to accomplish their objectives. The organization I studied in Zambia worked around them by piggybacking on Coca-Cola’s distribution channels.

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How (RED) is Fighting AIDS and Saving Lives

Saleforce Nonprofit

To help tell this story better, (RED) recently took a trip with one of our supporters, Roche, to Zambia to film a series of labs that are conducting life-saving tests and giving patients and doctors critical information in the fight against preventable diseases. And storytelling is at the very heart of that.

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here. An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t t have a habit of reading on the web. I blogged a discussion on web2.0 Your blog is almost a year old!

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