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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008. As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. Map the data.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Knowledge will continue to be an issue as well, whether it is knowledge of the issue or location or knowledge of what is really needed. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use knowledge trees, outlines, and focused thinking to identify what I need to learn and questions I need to ask. She recently wrote a post about how much time it takes to do social media based on some thinking from a post I wrote in 2008. Her blog posts certainly get me to think!

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We support all video & audio with whiteboard for sharing images and power point slides. I think instructor’s video with whiteboard format is a good format for knowledge sharing. So, once I decided that, I realized I needed to find the right tools. Every time you record the meeting, the recordings will be stored in your “MyPage.”

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#11NPD: Rethinking Movement Buildling

Tech Soup

Joining De Avila were Noah Flower, director of knowledge management at innovative consultancy the Monitor Institute , and Rashad Robinson, executive director at ColorOfChange , an organization dedicated to politically empowering Black Americans. Case in point: Obama for America, the 2008 Obama election campaign effort.

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Tori Tuncan, Guest Post -- The Lend4Health Journey: Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And when I read his transcript and saw his slides , I was intrigued. I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health." I was flattered when @PeterDeitz told me he was going to include Lend4Health in his keynote address at the Connecting Up Australia conference.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photos of the slides. He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world. The student is contributing the body of knowledge. The background piece can found here.

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