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Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Great reads from around the web on June 6th

Amy Sample Ward

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." " Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings | Official Google Blog – "Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. It’s a revolutionary concept to scale the effectiveness of one-on-one tutoring. MOOCs are appealing because they offer the possibility for continued, advanced learning at zero cost, allowing students, adults, and professionals to acquire new knowledge and skills.

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How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It talks about how to use today’s tools to build a collaborative culture and using them to find ways for individuals and organizations to team up in building new solutions. They can help people with different knowledge, skills, and points of view to tackle a shared problem, see old things in new ways, or challenge the status quo.

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The Capacity-Building Frontier(s)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) 5) There is reason to be hopeful.

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Learning in Public: To What End?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And in this networked world where social change and social movements can be seeded overnight with a viral video on YouTube, such public collaboration on complex social issues can have multiple benefits. This learning model has served us well, and above all it has been safe and comfortable. And finally, the so what?

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Sources: [1] Giving USA Foundation, Giving USA 2012, pg. As part of a.