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New Guide: How To Engage Your Supporters with Social Listening

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether the debate surrounds a keyword, organization or issue, understanding the dialogue can help you engage the people driving the conversation. Your People Are Talking. By connecting your existing data from email lists and databases with social listening skills, you’ll have both context and focus for the terms being monitored.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything. Connecting people in a network involves more than just making an introduction.

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How to Convert Your Nonprofit Website Visitor into a Donor

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I have been moved to give by the simple, human decency of an organization that sends volunteers into the streets and under bridges to offer food, clothing, and tents to people who call the streets home. It’s also not the time to invite people to purchase event tickets or buy something from your Amazon wish list.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is interesting to note that not all people in Arab countries speak the same Arabic, there are many dialects. Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities.

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex. Networks are more than random gatherings of people and organizations online.

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E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was very exciting to finally meet people on the In-Country Leadership Teams face-to-face. I was also impressed by the energy in a room with twenty people who have a networked mindset, leadership skills, and social media expertise. Interest in people. This first day’s three learning objectives: 1. Networking.

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