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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. Inspire, empower and facilitate to take action.

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

Seattle, Washington: Facilitating Great Board Meetings. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Mukono, Uganda. Kampala, Uganda: Social Media Surgery — Blogging as a Business. Kampala, Uganda: Office 365 at Its Best. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

Sustainability is still a real challenge, but the cost to value ratio of a school computer lab is shrinking to the point where you are starting to see governments and local communities invest more on their own to promote ICT access. . Mobile phone based applications and service .

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. This generation is doing more than clicking online, they’re making change in the world!

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

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. He was actually on a business trip, on his bike, to Uganda. They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along.

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TechSoup's Netsquared Organizers Win 2015 NTENny Awards

Tech Soup

He supports people in countries as far-flung as Australia, Poland, and Uganda. He also told me, "I find my bliss in being a facilitator and supporter. Birgit goes above and beyond quite often to provide pro bono technology help to local nonprofit organizations. I'm no maker. Birgit Pauli-Haack.