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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We opted for the latter.

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Vote for the sessions you want at 11NTC

Amy Sample Ward

That’s right, the session selection process is open for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference ! In this session, we will explore the meaning of community across channels and how to choose and manage the strategic direction of multi-channel community building. Vote today!

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SXSW: Using Social Media to Accelerate Sustainability

Amy Sample Ward

John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Many channels, both personal and professional. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. Presenters: Emily Gertz - Change.org. Rob Reed - Max Gladwell.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's not uncommon to see the "official" hashtag included with the promotional information about the event, even events or conferences that are not technology focused. The Nonprofit Technology community has used a special tag, nptech, created by Marnie Webb in 2004. This takes some facilitation.

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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technology at the Margins: How IT Meets The Needs of Emerging Markets by Salesh Chutani, Jessica Rothenberg AAlami, and Akhtar Badshah. Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&# 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.