Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda. Yet, it is not one of the top five reasons nonprofits use social media. In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. ” It also brings up issues about the r ole of social media and a connected society for delicate diplomacy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Blogger Conference | by Get Social Events, the Social Media Breakfast Folks ($25). San Francisco, California: Social Impact in Tech: Panel Discussion with LinkedIn, Lyft, and Salesforce. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: Crowdsourcing Change: The Social Web to Nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. So,we just knew that if you wanted to make social change, you had to understand how to connect with women and how to motivate women.

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