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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. Formative Evaluation.

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Critical Friends and A Reflection Process for Working Wikily

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project.

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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. The same values hold true today over at NTEN ). Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Working Wikily: Bridging Online/Offline Learning and Content Creation/Community Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Here are a few resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ).

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup). Alternative Approaches. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Jordan Viator, YouTube on a ShoeString and ask the expert at NTEN with Ramya Raghaven from YouTube. Christine Herron suggests the Electric Company.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. Adding a new printer is facilitated by a few different things hplip, cups, ghostscript, and gutenprint/gimpprint. I think that for a while, at least, Linux won’t be a good desktop option this broad group of people.

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WeAreMedia: Reflections on Working Wikily - Getting out of the way

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." Facilitated. Photo by Robert Francis.