Monthly Archives: April 2010

Great social media use by World Malaria Day

April 26, 2010 – 1:26 pm

Yesterday was World Malaria Day and the campaign has this year been very effective in it’s use of social media.  This is partly due to the very smart move by the UN to establish a social media envoy group, which includes Twitter founder Biz Stone, Bill Gates, Mashable’s Pete Cashmore and many more prominent social [...]

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Innovative, social web ways to do good

April 19, 2010 – 12:16 pm

Mashable today has an excellent post about ‘9 ways to do good‘, it highlights great examples of new means for people to support causes using social media.  Examples range from location based apps through which one can ‘check-in’ and donate to a cause, outsourcing tasks to refugees and crowdsourced microtasks done through smartphones. These 9 [...]

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New Maternal Mortality Estimates

April 16, 2010 – 2:27 pm

New global maternal mortality estimates published by the Lancet this week show a substantial decrease in deaths, from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008.  The report also estimates that more than 50% of all maternal deaths in 2008 occurred in six countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The [...]

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Building Capacity

April 15, 2010 – 11:39 am

We’ve got a busy spring speaking schedule coming up.  Over the next weeks, M4ID’s Mari Tikkanen will among others, be one of the 10 global experts speaking at IFC Online, predicted to be attended by 4,000 non-profit professionals worldwide.  Mari will be presenting on how to build an action-oriented online community.
We’re also excited about [...]

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Podcast on Social Media 4 Good

April 13, 2010 – 1:40 pm

This Chronicle of Philanthropy podcast is a few months old now, but has some good basic insights on how organizations are using social media for their causes.. includes lessons learnt from among others, Lance Armstrong Foundation and WWF’s Earth Hour.

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Social Media Penetration Up in Asia-Pacific

April 7, 2010 – 8:08 pm

AdNews is reporting that that a study done by ComScore has found social media penetration at 90% in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding China).  Facebook was ranked as the top social network, though it was topped by Orkut in India, Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea and Wretch.cc in Taiwan.
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Jumo – connecting for good

April 1, 2010 – 2:52 pm

We were amazed and thrilled last week when Jumo, the latest initiative from Chris Hughes (co-founder of Facebook) was announced.. Jumo is hoping to connect organizations and people working to change the world – online.  We have been developing a similar concept over the last 6 months, propelled in part by the excellent book Crowdsourcing, [...]

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