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Nonprofits in the Autonomous World: Will the Bots Take Over?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And one thing he said about the impact of living in an autonomous world, “Empathy, human touch and interaction will be become more important.” . It reminded me of a prediction that my TechSoup Global colleague, Marnie Webb, said to me almost 7 years ago when we were talking about the impact of crowdfunding and connectivity.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Much as been written about the impact of more women in Parliament.

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Storymakers 2014 Winners — A Global Success

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At Stone Soup Films, we are dedicated to shining a light on small organizations who are making an big impact in their communities and firmly believe in the power of digital storytelling to inspire action. Mark Karnes" by Soddo Christian Hospital (Ethiopia). Please visit the site to view this video). spanhidden.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” To support participants during the 6 months following the workshop in their action learning projects, we use several platforms – private Facebook group, webinar, and conference call. I have people do silent reflection on sticky notes and I also do a closing circle – and have each person pass an object and speak briefly.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. In reflecting on this now, it is important to make sure that your supporters are doing the retweeting and that you're not overdoing it on your Twitter account or you risk annoying people.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. By moving others move - the aim is to impact the person who needs to be moved to the other side. One person is identified to move to the other side. Debrief: What happened?

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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Impact Foundary / McClellan Park, CA / $200. The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. Impact Convergence 2016. Impact Convergence 2016. 2016 Net Impact Conference. 2016 Net Impact Conference.

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