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October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

Amy Sample Ward

It was a really rich discussion – thank you to all those who joined in, shared, asked questions, and contributed! You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. If you have a question or topic you’d like to discuss, be sure to leave a comment here so we can ensure it’s covered.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. . First, if you are not doing custom coding like the Einstein Bot , bots work best with close-choice questions that lead the user to more information or an action. There are two design tasks.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. Rwanda leads the world with the highest percentage of women in high level positions.

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Rwanda and Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He responds to questions and has conversations as well as confrontations with journalists (and others) in his personally branded Twitter account. The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Connecting with Millennials (Mike Del Ponte, Soma)

NTEN

It took away the burden of thinking ''I just need to take care of my family.''" The professor''s questions Mike went to Boston College. I erred way too much on the side of question #3. Your calling is actually at the intersection of those 3 questions. They said, "We''re not here to help you find a job. A professor asked: 1.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I learned this technique from Cheryl Francisconi, director of the IIE Addis-Ababa Office in Ethiopia, last month in Rwanda ,who uses a stone that has been held by many people. Then each person gets to speak with another participant for 7 minutes and we do 6 or 7 rounds of speed dating.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a story of literacy, and I hope it will serve as a powerful question for those of us who think about how we can help on an important day like Literacy Day. On literacy day, I can’t help but remember the real-life story of something that happened the year I met Kenya.