Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. A core concept in systems mapping is “purpose”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. The next step was for participants to draw another circle draw another big circle with pictures representing how the world might change for the positive. Network assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about. Modeling the Network Mindset.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. The organization aims to assist rural entrepreneurs to help them increase their income and build capacity. Children and Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. www.enteef.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 The point I make over and over is that you begin slowly with small steps and build up to your capacity level. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Framework for Producing Transformative Change Two key concepts from the book really stuck with me. The first is their core concept of equilibrium change. Of course, this is a familiar concept to me as someone who started his career building for-profit tech companies in Silicon Valley. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

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APRIL 1, 2016

How they were changed by the 2012 election cycle. 2016 NGO Online Technology Report. Based upon the survey results of 2,780 NGOs worldwide, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

As Marnie Webb put it, to participate in this network, you simply has to raise your hand and be willing to meet people in a bar to talk about social media and social change. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Understanding and mapping your network is one of the indicators in my “Crawl Walk Run Fly” maturity of practice model and looks something like this: Click to see larger image. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Radio Bilingue.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

To further reach their goals, SAP is going beyond their traditional giving model to make an impact through technology — an idea that makes them a great partner with TechSoup. They believe that their multi-tiered approach will help build a sustainable future for both civil society and community businesses. Tech for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

An interview Mari Velasco, Lorene Staka, and Joanna Eng of the Idealist Photos in flickr The Idealist , a project of Action Without Borders ,connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a better world. Mari Velasco: We have made some recent changes to expand our use of new web tools, but there's always more we could do!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

The recommendations in the report call for more institutionalized capacity building programs around Web2.0. In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 To learn about web2.0 and feel comfortable, you need to experience it. and find creative challenge ways to get beyond the key barrier of a slow Internet connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was very fortunate that in October 2004 in South Africa, there was a meeting of social change market places that was convened, and I met Buzz Schmidt, Founder of GuideStar. A robust information layer that would support other ecosystem components to build upon. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

They are speaking the language of people, and empathy, and systemic change. My team at ION Studios curated 110 universally adoptable methods of social change and paired them with 10 custom mini-workshops that were designed to be led by and for social sector organizations to build their own innovation workflows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. applications have changed the rules of online community. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. There are two sets of social roles here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. They can create the change makers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I started with an overview of the Networked Nonprofit and shared some thoughts about social cultures and transparency — referencing the models in our book – The Fortress and The Sponge. Free agents are powerful social change players. And, what’s exciting the ecosystem of free agents operating today.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

It’s a change of pace for the monthly nonprofit technology news to lead with non-electronic technology, but what can I do? The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. TechCrunch.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

They plan to do it through policy and regulatory changes. ZDnet describes it as the product of sensors, technology and networking all coming together to allow buildings, infrastructure and other resources to swap information. This is a model collaboration website in the foundation world that attracts many contributors.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently. In Africa, we're running capacity-building trainings, and supporting women in launching sustainable businesses, and viable projects, to bring clean water to their communities.

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JUNE 1, 2009

While direct mail may be declining in some markets since its heyday in the 90s it is still an effective form of direct communication to raise funds and the NGO brand. The point is that the world is changing - there are new channels - and that we need to look at how to best strategically incorporate them. The speed of change for one.

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