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E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was also impressed by the energy in a room with twenty people who have a networked mindset, leadership skills, and social media expertise. I created the above visual using wordle to represent our collective knowledge and skills. We have a lot to learn about working this way from NGOs and capacity builders in the Arab world.

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Fall Webinar Series: Effective Nonprofit Management

Tech Soup

In this webinar, learn how to build a writing culture at your organization, and how you can use writing to shape images, raise money, inspire people, and influence opinion. In this webinar, learn how leveraging engaged volunteers can open a treasure trove of skills, experience, and influence for your organization.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. But even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others (which takes more time) (15-20 per week depending on the type of content, number of different ways you're creating it, and skill).

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On saints and advocates

Connection Cafe

After all, advocacy requires different organizational skills than providing direct services to needy populations. But eventually, they greatly extended their influence by building environmental programs to support advocacy efforts. So what should nonprofits be doing?

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14 Nonprofit Books Recommended by Top Industry Experts

Classy

Even seasoned fundraisers and nonprofit professionals need to learn new skills and hear new perspectives, and that’s where our reading list comes in. This book focuses on getting results by teaching new and experienced nonprofit leaders the fundamental skills of effective management. By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser.

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How to Maximize Success Stories Across Your Nonprofit’s Digital Channels

Nonprofit Tech for Good

PIH’s website has an “Our Impact” page that highlights their positive influence around the world. By changing the presentation of Fanta’s story each time they shared it on their website and Facebook profile, PIH made the content feel fresh and engaging each time. The page includes several storytelling graphics.

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Steven Johnson Key Note at Serious Games Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure. Colbert quipped, "I know my car jacking skills have gone up." Crazy people get influenced to crazy things. " If each time you played chess, the basic rules were changed.

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