ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K. Pollak, T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? Personal Information Technology Workshop ??? They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. tools) can make their study, work, and life easier.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? These might include knowledge or skills tests, observations notes, evaluation forms, even anecdotal reports collected after a presentation, workshop, training session, meeting or other communications event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

Clearly, not all writers are cut out to do the kind of work Power does, but if you want your writing to have a larger purpose, here are a few resources for you: August 23-25th is the Writing for Change 2007 conference in San Francisco. It was co-founded by two literary agents, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Social Media Game In 2007, David Wilcox and I presented a workshop at LASA using this game he created. We used it for the WeAreMedia workshop and one of the participants, Aids.Gov, remixed a version to train their staff. I created a version to teach folks about creative commons licensing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

About 5-8 years ago, I used to do a workshop called "Information Coping Skills" for people who felt overwhelmed by the information age. I used the " getting to zero " and "getting things done" frameworks to teach people methods for being efficient with email. The online resources are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I acquired my love of my words from my mom, who started teaching me to read when I was three, and who still, at age 84, delights in beating me at word games. And then, on December 6, 2007, everything changed when my friend Susan Reynolds was diagnosed with breast cancer. I'm a wordaholic. It's definitely a genetic predisposition.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Research classes/workshops in a skill I want to learn. This fantastic book is filled with profiles of social change visionaries like Priya Haji , CEO and Co-Founder of World of Good ; Katie Redford Co-Founder and US Office Director of Earth Rights International; and Wendy Kopp , Founder of Teach for America. Sign up for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He was also a co-host of the PBS series, Endless Feast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. That's rare in a conference setting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Right at the end of that period, I also was teaching. I taught that same workshop inside of large corporations, and at the end of having taught that 12 times, I had two affects. And second, I was exhausted from having continued to do consulting and teaching at the same time. I thought, "My God, I've just bought myself a year!"

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