Mission:
• To bring about changes in the lives of people of Rural India.
• To help under Privileged Children, Women, and Widows, irrespective of caste, colour, language, and religion.
• To help the physically handicapped, blind, and HIV / AIDS infected people.
• Rural women & children development Programmes.
• Legal aid awareness programmes.
• Disabled development programmes.
• School health awareness programmes.
• Women Empowerment and Livelihood programmes.
• Adolescent Girls awareness Programme on Behaviour and emotional Imbalance
• HIV/AIDS awareness programmes.
• Environmental awareness and animal welfare programmes.

Fundrasing
Translated into English by: Samuel Vijayakumar
Every Body

A lot of the organizations that use TakingITGlobal take advantage of our blogging tool to connect their work with the TakingITGlobal Community.

What is a blog?

A blog is a web site, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. (Wikipedia)

Some reasons why an organization should consider blogging:

• 30-50 million blogs around the world now (“Blogging the Cat”- people who write about anything)
• Powerful communications vehicle;
• Can keep your network/supporters informed with your organization’s latest news;
• If an organization has a limited budget this can be a great marketing/ promotional tool;
• Unlock your organizational stories;
• Culture of personal blogging at the moment;

How to create an organizational blog on TakingITGlobal?

Step 1: You can either create an organizational blog through your organizational profile or you could create a TIG Group Blog.

Step 2: If you choose to create a blog on your organizational profile, just go to your profile and on the main page there is a section called "Latest Mini Blog". Here you can click on "Would You Like to Add one?" and right away you can start blogging! (Tip: This is the easiest way to start blogging on TakingITGlobal, but you will need to be the administrator for your org's account!)

If you choose to start a group TIG Blog, you can go to the group TIG Blog section on TIG and follow the steps to start one of these. The benefits to starting a group blog is that more people from your organization will be able to use the blog!

A good example to check out!

The Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS has a group blog called GYCA Voices from the Field! This blog details the progress of GYCA members who have been awarded small grants to carry out projects developed in e-courses taught by the organization.

Once you have created an organizational profile on TakingITGlobal, organizations can create a YouTube or Flickr feed which allows them to showcase their multimedia. If you already have accounts scroll down to see the steps to add them to your organizational profile! If you want to learn a bit more about You Tube and Flickr, keep reading!

What is You Tube?

YouTube (www.youtube.com) is the world’s largest user-generated video-sharing web site on the Internet. The majority of the videos submitted are created by amateur video makers. The videos are then ranked by user votes and the editor’s favorites are showcased on the homepage.

Organizations can really make use of YouTube (or any other video sharing web site) as this platform can really be used to share your advocacy videos with a wide audience. YouTube attracts approximately 22 million registered users and receives over 100 million page views per day.

The flip side of this is that most YouTube videos produced by nonprofit organization receive a modest number of views. Your organization needs to upload videos that appeal to the YouTube viewer. By doing this your videos have the chance to receive hundreds of thousands or even million of views. When signing up to YouTube request a director’s account as this will allow you to upload your organization’s logo and include it on all your video pages. One of the things that is also useful to do is to include a link to your organization on your profile page and on each individual video page.

What is Flickr?

With over one million users, Flickr (www.flickr.com) is one of the most popular photo-sharing websites (if not the most popular). Flickr members upload their pictures to make them accessible and tag the photos with keywords so that they are easy to find.
Setting up an effective Flickr account will take an organization less than an hour and is an easy way to have an online presence as it does not need to be up-dated daily.

One of the most important things that the participants can learn is about tagging. Show the participants a photograph and ask them to think about the words they would use to describe the photograph. Flickr was one of the first web sites to use the concept of tagging.

How to integrate both of these into TakingITGlobal?

Step 1: Go to the Resources section of your organizational profile to set one up now! Can't find it? If you go to your organizational profile you will see " tabs" at the top right of the page. Click on the way that says "Resources". Once you have clicked on that you will be taken to a place that will allow you to add your You Tube or Flickr feeds.

Step 2: Scroll three-quarters of the way down the page and there you will see places to add both your YouTube and Flickr usernames. Click on "Would You Like to Set Them up?" (separate places for both You Tube and Flickr) and enter your username or URL.

EXAMPLE:

If I wanted to set-up TakingITGlobal's Flickr feed I would enter "http://www.flickr.com/photos/tigphotos" as that is the URL of our Flickr group. If i wanted to add the You Tube Channel, I would only enter our username which is "takeitglobal". I promise it is simpler than it sounds!

Step 3: Once you have saved your changes, your You Tube and Flickr streams will start appearing within 24-48 hours. Sometimes it take a while for technology to work!

Lets face it the people that work at an organization are the passion behind everything that you do- it is their skills, enthusiasm, ideas, and focus that help YOU achieve all that you do.

Often it is difficult to find the right people for the job and that is why TakingITGlobal has created a space for you to find the right people for the job. The professional opportunities section on TakingITGlobal is where you can advertise full-time, part-time, contract, and volunteer job opportunities.

The best thing about using TakingITGlobal's professional opportunities to advertise any career opportunities that you may have is that TIG's community is filled with motivated and socially-minded youth who are always looking for a way to make a difference in their communities.

Steps to finding the right staff!

Step 1: As with everything that you do you first need to be a TakingITGlobal member! If you aren't this is the first thing that you will need to do!

Step 2: Go to add a professional opportunity and add all of the relevant information!

Step 3: Once your opportunity is approved all you have to do is wait for the applications to come your way!

Tip: When entering your opportunity, you will have the ability to add the organization who is posting this. If you do this your submission will also be linked to your organizational profile on TIG. This will give you double the exposure!