Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. This concept has been pioneered by the Internet Archive with its Open Library can lend a digital copy of a book for a period of time as long as it (or a partner library) owns a physical copy of that book which it holds back from being lent to someone else.

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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Whether the model your foundation is using to help its grantees is a one-day master class or extended program, in the end, success is about having participants apply what they’ve learned and make these new skills an organizational habit. The tactics can include workshops , master classes , coaching , expert consultants or peer learning.

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Design Communication Program Build 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. Are there differences in models by field / industry/ place?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

During the diplomatic conference, Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries could hope to achieve with the Treaty. As a result, the Treaty closely follows the Chafee Amendment , which is the copyright exception that has made Bookshare possible in the United States.

Accessibility 194

Accessibility Celebrate United States Copyright 194

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another. Why am I excited about this project?

Social Media 102

Social Media Learning Community Media 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

This is called the hybrid model – although it has to be silo free for it work. The book refers to a October, 2011 SSIR blog post called “ Four Models for Managing Digital ” written by Michael Silberman, Jason Mogus, and Christopher Roy who interviewed senior online campaigners from over 6o nonprofits. Web Producer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Learning Network Organization Classroom 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

Internet connectivity in this very rural area was a challenge – which is why the last few days of the training sessions were held in Kigali so participants could get some hands-on practice. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? Lately, I have been working in far flung places which means long, very long airplane rides without Internet access!

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Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

After a welcome by Kathleen Enright, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Diana Scearce, Monitor Institute was our facilitator. Next, there was a panel discussion that was live streamed on ustream, modeling transparency. ” Video streaming by Ustream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Development. Implementation.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. We see it all the time in this modern internet age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Maslow Yemen Artist Arts 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? There is major emphasis on what is possible when ingenuity, 11K gb internet connections and collaborative teams intersect. He has seen it all. And like Bar Camps , people hack.

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Mexico Cisco Oracle Nevada 113

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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AJAX Application Open Source Plugin 134

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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Change Social Model Myanmar 73

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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Change Social Model Myanmar 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

My goal with this post is pretty simple: I want to convince you that GamesThatGive has the potential to change the way charities use the internet to engage audiences and raise money. I now serve as the company’s ‘Principal Evangelist,’ which means my role is to help introduce GamesThatGive to the world. That’s really it.

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Charity Donation Game Afghanistan 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

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. Modeling the norm.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The model balances content, learning design, and participants. I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). The ideas, tips, and tricks are grounded in adult learning theory, but the book is very practical.

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Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

It is probably unfair to compare these two strategies for grassroots internet fundraising. So, the campaign has earned $331 via widgets to facilitate contributions and $1.72 Is that a sustainable model? But I will just for giggles. Revver pays content creaters based on placing ads on the videos and paying for the click thrus.

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Widget Fundraising YouTube Facilitation 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries. E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

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Jordan Saudi Arabia Morocco Lebanon 126

Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Digital advertising offers an array of platforms that facilitate donations: Let’s talk about what kinds of online giving options are available for most nonprofit organizations. The Google Display Network contains millions of websites and mobile apps that reach 90% of internet users, including user-rich YouTube. What does that mean?

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Digital Marketing Online Fundraising 52

Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

“15% of the UK population hasn’t experienced the Internet even once.” should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” ” Jeremy Heimans, Purpose, Australia, while he argued that micro payments are a better funding model than plain charity, for social change.

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Activities Active Activism Review 47

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . Mobile phone based applications and service .

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Mobile North America Mali Cameroon 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

So, this is the network effect of that model. And, I wonder how that can be facilitated by the Internet and Technology. I'm thinking about what we used to call "Shoulder to shoulder" learning in the old circuit rider days. It is informal knowledge transfer around using the tools. Anyway, more to ponder here.

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Learning Screencast Unconference Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. 1: Social media must be integrated with internet communications or program strategy. I start with a crawl-walk-run-walk framework for staffing models for nonprofits. Conversational Key Note.

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Social Media Media Social San Jose 115

Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Facilitating and moderating discussions, forums, and other online interaction. Modeling appropriate site use and enforcing the “Terms of Use” as appropriate. Model Wanted Behavior. The best way to solicit the types of participation you want is by modeling it for users to see.

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Adopt Collaboration Content System 58

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. At the info desk with the maps? Separation.

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Museum Web Arts Internet 20

Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Here are a few ways that developers and product managers can think about making existing sites and applications more accessible: Understanding basic accessibility - " Unfortunately, not much of the population understands that people who are visually impaired can use the internet just as well as sighted indivduals can, including web developers.

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Netsquared Accessibility Culture Build 40

Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

This vastly improves the management and allocation of financial and environmental resources and facilitate technology-enabled breakthroughs on climate change and disease outbreaks. Philanthropist organisations come together using a “fortress model” to counter fraud and lack of trust and to help protect their reputation.

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Philanthropy Develop Technology Government 36

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Because the reality is in that room of 65 people, only a handful had participated in one of the high-functioning models of civic discourse presented--calling in to a radio forum, bridging political differences through internet chat. But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse.

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