Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The royalties that I earn from my books have been donated to nonprofits to support women’s and girl’s empowerment work and given this past week, I am all the more convinced of the need to support such programs. You can order your copy here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve been tasked with designing and facilitating a session for trainers during our two-day e-Mediat networked nonprofit and social media bootcamps in Jordan and Morocco. The training for the NGOs that have completed the 5 workshops from the different countries over the past year. Begin Connections.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

We'll examine these questions from multiple angles and share the knowledge: How do you incorporate community into your programs? Nairobi (EAT — UTC +3). The chat will last for one hour. Tune in by following along at #NPTechChat on Twitter. What are the biggest pain points and obstacles? unfoundation. spanhidden

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Youth in the program work at local nonprofits, but program organizers know that to truly achieve their goal of reducing youth unemployment, participants need additional support and training. How did these groups come together?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

That said, I am currently in Southeast Asia presenting social media trainings to nonprofits in Malaysia, Singapore and Manila – most of which are just getting started with using social media. Basic knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) will make or break your social media campaigns. Make sure they are the right ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

It was also an opportunity to learn about co-design and co-facilitate. The downside is that when you have four very experienced facilitators, with different styles, methods, and subject matter knowledge, it takes longer to design and you have to allow time for getting into a rhythm as a team. Leadership Training Design'

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. We launched a global crowdsourcing campaign to collect homegrown solutions and ideas to spread digital empowerment. That’s just the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m designing and delivering peer training sessions for grantees all around the theme of social media, learning, and measurement. This year I’m more of [.]

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We explored opening a training center. As the network grows, more of the tools and knowledge base will come from participating institutions, with our staff focusing on community organizing and connections. We realized that models that rely heavily on in-person training or consulting wouldn't scale to the extent of our dreams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

Encourage participation by knowledge contributors? " Response from Holly Ross: We're trying to first engage the social media "experts" to share their knowledge so we can design a curriculum that addresses the social media "novice." Nonprofit Social Media Empowerment Guide. MEdia EmpoWErement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

They can explain things a little easier—training always goes smoother because they tend to understand what they are teaching instead of just reading out of a book.” Currently, they are a breath of fresh air and much more trusting of all members in our group, who are adults with a lot of knowledge and experience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

But this choice also belied my background as an engineer and designer--someone trained to think of tools as apolitical. When you seriously value the diverse experience and knowledge of community members, you challenge the traditional assignment of knowledge authority. Empowerment? What is participation for?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The demand for low-code development is driven by several factors, such as the need for digital transformation, the appeal of automating repetitive tasks, the shortage of skilled developers, the benefit of cost and time savings compared to traditional development, and the empowerment of creative problem solvers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

We’re not too good at making pancakes…) Sigida Keneyali is about improving a community’s capacity to advocate for itself, and improving its health situation using lay knowledge and civil society. Empowerment” is a word that has become completely cheapened through overuse. However, empowerment is what we strive to create.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project (NESFP) plays a specific, pertinent role in that mission by training the next generation of farmers to produce sustainable, nutritious, and culturally preferred food by making food accessible to individuals regardless of age, mobility, ethnicity, or socio-economic status.

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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. TechCamp: Empowering women through technology - guest post by Ma’ayan Alexander.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

There's the magazine, there's PulseWire, and the third component that has been very powerful is the online training, the women's Web 2.0 citizen journalism training that we developed because the women were asking for it. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Empowerment – as you help them with a problem, teach them about the problem, and ways to troubleshoot (or possibly solve) the problem themselves in the future. Second, Empowerment.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Being congruent includes activities that increase transparency about quality, incorporating training on shared decision-making and listening, collecting and valuing patient stories, and embodying those perspectives in policy and practice. Training is key.

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