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

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. This start up has a triple bottom line and is the vision of founder and CEO Priya Krishnan – a woman who is passionate about high quality education and technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

I just finished reading Kentaro Toyama’s new book, Geek Heresy, tackling the cult of technology as a cure-all for society’s ills. He’s a geek (former Microsoft Research guy) who is making the case that technology doesn’t make the kind of social impact it claims to deliver. Wishful thinking makes many people dream of quick fixes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lavelle Foundation, Bookshare has been able to work with Worth Trust, a nonprofit with offices in Chennai, India. For the employees English is not their first language and for some it was not the medium of instruction. I now feel even I can help people living in America!!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

I’ll be talking about the next generation of donors and how they use social media, mobile, and other technology to raise money for causes they care about. This guest post is part of many recent posts you have read from my about Generation Z. Helping Your Teen Give Back.

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