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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs. He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ).

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

Different communities have aligned and adopted different social networks, social media tools, communications platforms, etc. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. as a form of self expression and identification.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

Different communities have aligned and adopted different social networks, social media tools, communications platforms, etc. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. as a form of self expression and identification.

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The 45 Social by Social Propositions

Amy Sample Ward

Empowerment is unconditional. Support the early adopters rather than chasing the sceptics, and they will become your evangelists. Tags: resources socialmedia strategy book nesta socialbysocial. A set of principles and guidelines which we believe underpin the most successful ‘social by social’ projects. People want control.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. You need leadership skills to drive adoption and participation across the organization. Tags: bi business intelligence dashboards data IT Staff NPTech NTEN. I want to eat statistics for dinner. I would marry a good data visualization. What about you?

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. Social media practices are just that – they get strong and stay strong with practice – so success means consistent application and learning.

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Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: Recap and Recordings of the ONTC

NTEN

Dahna Goldstein, PhilanTech, talked about reasons why tech changes fail: no leader/champion, no direction from the top, no context, lack of communication/poor communication and lack of involvement/empowerment. Tags: Leadership Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission NPTech NTEN ontc Planning. So what can we do? Get org-wide buy-in.