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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique.

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Attention Data Nerds: Nonprofits Miss Out on the Power of LinkedIn: Learn How to Tap It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: By the time you are reading, I’ll probably have been on a jet plane for far longer than I want to be and maybe have landed in Rwanda. Once I recover from the journey, expect read reports about the Networked NGO in Rwanda and use of social media to support Women’s Rights organizations.

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Need Answers: LinkedIn Has Them

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda. Her blog, Vistas provides insights, strategies, techniques, and solutions that help values-driven businesses realize their social-change missions. Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda.

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Tips and Tools for Integrating Social Media Into Your Nonprofit Event Marketing Plan

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The first step is to get organized. Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. It is also a good technique to easily capture the digital artifacts from the event to prepare the after story. One of the more popular with nonprofits is ThunderClap. Shonali Burke has a terrific tip.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Grantee organizations will measure what matters.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

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Observation is not just scanning or browsing, but looking at another organization’s practice with a critical thinking lens and gaining insights. Along with benchmarking – that is comparing your organization’s numbers with an industry average or simply another similar organization or two is great.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

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I am asking myself and colleagues who do networked NGO training and social media skill building outside the of US – the question about building resilient networks and how to incorporate non-violent techniques. [ here and here ]. We don’t have any answers, but we all feel that our work is all the important as is a conversation.

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