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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

According to the Women and the Web report, 200 million more men have access to the Internet than women. A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. Today, she is using technology to help fellow trafficking victims.

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New Microsoft Office 2010 Courses from easyLearning

Tech Soup

easyLearning's courses are web-based, so you can access them from any computer with a web browser and internet access. This means you can use Internet Explorer or Firefox to access them, but not Safari. If your nonprofit is upgrading to Office 2010, these courses would be a perfect way to learn what's new in 2010.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, I am currently in Southeast Asia presenting social media trainings to nonprofits in Malaysia, Singapore and Manila – most of which are just getting started with using social media. It is a fundamental shift in how people use the Internet for social good. Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on 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.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

Second Term 2017 Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School. Second Term 2017 Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Saint John Kaama Primary. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Second Term 2017 Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

James Young, on the Connection Cafe, suggests that we think about constituent empowerment when we think about organizational websites. The Hack Artist suggests that it’s important to marry direct mail efforts and a web presence. And, since I’m the host, I get to add a couple of bonus mistakes.