Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Both language and what you’re teaching. It boils down to audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I watch participants’ body language like a hawk, and every 20 minutes or so I make sure that the delivery mode changes. You begin to pick up a second sense of feeling when people in the room are getting tired and have lost their focus. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. that sends exercise and sleep info the cloud.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Use Inclusive Language. This means that you should avoid language that is sexist, racist, homophobic or transphobic, and ableist. Not only is the language around identity complex, but offensive terms are often a part of daily speech. It is also a good idea to consider technological limitations. The words we use matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Silence on video calls makes us anxious about the technology compared to natural pauses that happen during in-person communication. ( BBC – Gianpiero Petriglieri ) . In face-to-face meetings, you can feel the energy in the room drop when people get tired by watching their body language or engagement falls off. second delay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I was lucky enough to be working with the digital strategy coordinator, Maria Rubi , from the Mexico office. She is not only fluent in English (and four other languages in addition to her native Spanish), she is also an excellent trainer and facilitator. We came up with some really practical and useful models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Social networks are not about technology, they are enabled by technology”. As a digital immigrant, my goal for this conference is to practice learning the language of my new country at the GEO Networks conference over the next two days. Click for a Twitter Summary of Key Points from Plenary. Guest post by Mary Manuel.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

These fragile environments mean that those using Salesforce technologies have to take into account a whole set of additional potential threats, such as considering the theft or capture of trusted devices, or personnel may be forced to divulge login information under duress. Senior Platform Architect, Salesforce.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Incorporating Movement Into Icebreakers and Small Group Exercises. What I Was Inspired To Adapt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I recently submitted a proposal for NTEN’s 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference with colleagues Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon and Jeanne Allen called “ Supercharge Your Technology Training ,” so please take a minute to vote for it. . I’ve also done this during a session as part of a small group exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

David comes to this work from a background in the education and educational technology field and he’s on fire! David’s improv exercises were designed to help us stretch this muscle and apply to our social change work. The next exercise was about practicing awareness and openness. Of course, we messed up.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

But technology moves fast. ChatGPT is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. ChatGPT , from OpenAI, is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. Large language models (LLMs), adept at communicating with human speech, represent a significant advance in computing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor. The key here is providing materials that are age, interest and ability appropriate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Later in the day, we did a network mapping exercise.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With the advent of various communication technologies, nonprofits have broadened the reach of their programs and fundraising efforts greatly, and at a much lower relative cost. To protect nonprofits and the general public, most states enforce certain compliance requirements on nonprofit organizations soliciting within their borders.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

With the advent of various communication technologies, nonprofits have broadened the reach of their programs and fundraising efforts greatly, and at a much lower relative cost. To protect nonprofits and the general public, most states enforce certain compliance requirements on nonprofit organizations soliciting within their borders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2011

This is my most daring exercise in designing an interactive, global learning experience. Here’s what will happen: 1.) We will have a simultaneous tweet-up taking place in Beirut, Lebanon and connect with them on Twitter using the hashtag #netnon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. Learn More .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. What was our learning?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Is Spanish more your bag?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store. Gamification is a great motivator when research, information technology, and graphic design- all align.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Allowing an invaluable insight in developing content that may not just be convenient via technology, but possibly even more effective if properly educated. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. Learning Styles. Interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. I had a lot of fun with my keynote.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Although technology problems were urgent and frequently mission critical. But it is particularly valuable when people don’t have access to behavioral cues, like body language, that are plentiful in face-to-face situations. To keep the momentum going, follow formal training with more casual perspective-taking exercises.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Leaders need to be more visible than usual during times of crisis, because they need to set the tone through their words, deeds, and body language. At Disney, for example, CEO Bob Iger has said from the start of his tenure that the company will focus on embracing technology in all its forms, developing great content, and global expansion.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

After a few years of writing about technology, I've finally decided to take the plunge and learn some basic coding. " The classes are broken up into short, engaging videos and supplemented with fun, interactive exercises. You can take classes in different coding languages, from PHP to Ruby to Python. Sounds scary?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

I think this is particularly important to emphasize if you want to nurture any peer learning, but especially around technology skills. The short answer : One Fan Page with multiple languages using Facebook Targeting tools. . I used the social media game as a peer assist exercise for the first time. What are your thoughts?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Maybe you’re considering your program and how you can actually engage folks to actually think that they’re part of a community which will create that sticky power that continues to be self-perpetuating so that folks continue to give their time, their talent, their technology, their treasure. .

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

On one hand, those who decide that technology will be their vocations need to push for roles and titles that reflect what they really do. This article is meant for those who want to stop being accidental and move into a technology leadership role. I agreed, but only to an extent. They're ready to graduate from their apprenticeships.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And, well, the whole exercise was depressing. They show the possibilities of text in our spaces, and the ways our writers are using language to include (rather than exclude) audiences. Technology has become part of the fabric of museum work. The last decade has offered us enormous growth in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. without becoming slaves to technology. Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. And if you???

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Thankfully, today’s technological landscape is rapidly advancing, and the best way to surpass these challenges is by going virtual! Thanks to the expansive technological world, members from across state lines can join your team. Empower your board leadership to exercise effective governance and maintain more control over meetings.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

Writing nonprofit mission and vision statements can be an exciting (and often anxiety-causing) exercise! When done well, these statements breathe the essence of your organization into language that can reach diverse audiences. Well-crafted statements give them the language and the confidence to make the important asks!

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

According to research by NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, 80% of nonprofits don’t have a policy to address cyberattacks. Keep in mind that these words can be in any language and include common phrases, like “letmein.” Despite the perils of hacking, people keep using risky, guessable passwords.

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