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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. In a recent blog post , I described how HRP statistician Daniel Guzmán’s expert testimony in a breakthrough legal case against two former police officers helped score a remarkable victory in the fight to end impunity in Guatemala. All HRP’s publications are available online.

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Best Blogs of 2011

Connection Cafe

Well, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for…our choice for the best Connection Cafe blog posts of 2011. So, for those of you that achieved it in 2011, congratulations! Author: Sara Spivey. After all, the common thread between baseball and Google Analytics is so obvious, right?

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

Let's Talk about You (and Me) If this blog post were all about us (the authors), you would have stopped reading by now -- and rightly so. Over the past couple of years, they have been dabbling, and then wading, in data visualization techniques. The case goes like this: We want to provide knowledge and expertise.

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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. I also acknowledged Giuseppe Mauriello, another curator on Scoop.It

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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It Robin Good picked up on the theme of sense-making, and identified five more techniques to help sharpen your sense-making skills as part of your content curation skill set.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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#13ntc Nonprofit Technology Conference: Plenary Session on Failing Informatively

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m especially looking forward to learning from these sessions by colleagues: April 11, 2011 – 10:30 – Noon. Building Movements – with Ivan Boothe and Rachel Weidinger. April 12 at 8:30-10. Keynote by Dan Pallotta. April 12 – 10:30 – Noon.