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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. I’ve written about these techniques here ).

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. I wasn't as smooth as I would have liked swtiching between my "scripted" remarks and incorporating people's questions in the chat line. This was circa 1997. I arrived two hours early.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy…. It’s not your script. For example, the heading of a bar chart can state the specific interpretation that you want your audience to see, making it unnecessary to go into great detail about the data. Go deeper — use empathy. Deeply connected to your topic?

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6 Online Speaking Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy…. It’s not your script. For example, the heading of a bar chart can state the specific interpretation that you want your audience to see, making it unnecessary to go into great detail about the data. Go deeper — use empathy. Deeply connected to your topic?

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Balance the Spontaneous and Strategic of Social Media: Newsjacking and Obamacare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This “Window of Opportunity” was a perfect chance to practice the dance between the strategic and spontaneous or becoming an adaptive organization. 2) Use Multiple Channels and Shape Content for each Channel. 6) Curate Visual and Other Content from Trusted Sources. Content on social channels is increasingly going visual.