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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation by Kathy Reich. She manages to make everyone feel like they have wisdom to bring to the table (or the wiki). Click to See Larger Image and Scroll. Five years ago, the Packard Foundation was trying to figure out this whole social media thing.

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Nonprofits Celebrate New Home in Second Life

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San Francisco Meets the Metaverse: 32 Nonprofits and their supporters will host a grand opening celebration Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. To date, they have created a community blog and a resource-rich wiki, and have held mixed-reality events, workshops, and regular weekly town hall meetings. Generously donated by the world???s

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WeAreMedia: Listening for Nonprofits in a Connected World

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My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. Listening and engaging with the long tail - they may not be celebrities or influential bloggers - but when a crisis hits or need people to spread the world - they become activated like an army of volunteers.

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CommBuild Tweet Chat April 23: Storytelling and Social Sharing

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Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. In her role as engagement strategy director at Free Range Studios, Melissa Roberts seeks out and collaborates with a variety of changemaking groups, helping to lay the roadmap for each project from kickoff to post-launch celebration.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

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.” It replaces the old school model of sitting and listening with E-energize learners, help them N-navigate, let them G-Generate personal meaning and A-Apply their skills,G-Gauge and celebrate their learning and E-Extend what they learn to action. Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki. Learner Culmination and Celebration. This is technically part of the design and implementation, but helps learner’s pause for a second and celebrate what they’ve learned. Closing Circle. Group Photo.

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Open Source for Nonprofits: Programs to Try (Part 2)

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Vancouver-based Art for Impact is a nonprofit that celebrates the power of art for social change. The main features cover task management, bug tracking, timeline visualizations, digital backlogs, task boards, burndown charts , project wikis, expense management, and time tracking, as well as document sharing and other collaboration tools.