Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem.

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Data Literacy Boston Charlotte 101

Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

It seems like every day there's a new overhyped idea that claims to fix a problem you never thought you had, like a delivery service for laundry quarters. So it's refreshing to come to an event where techies and nonprofits convene to solve deep, real problems that plague our community. Data Collecting and Mapping.

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San Francisco Detroit Change API 36

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. We took a year off of C3 in 2013 and reconsidered our goals for the group. Suddenly, C3 felt more like an engagement program that advances our institutional goals. This map formed the basis for topic definition for subsequent meetings. Low on friction. Low on depth.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The specific indicators of program success are below and were identified with input from participants: 100% of participants will develop an integrated and measurable social media strategy that furthers their communications work in population and reproductive health that aligned with institutional goals.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes. If one of the goals of the peer session is “networking,” the icebreakers can help facilitate that. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. It's not just a random assortment of data, it's the stuff that tells you if you're meeting your key goals and objectives. Importantly, BI is also multi-layered: A good BI strategy will not only tell you if you're meeting your goals, but how and why. Collaboration.

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Business Gartner Data NTEN 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. Technology does not solve problems. Technology alone does not solve problems.

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Technology Empowerment Problem 109