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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are working very closely with Dr. Yasmeen Qazi who is the Pakistan Country Advisor and her very talented team members, Dr. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything. I’ve subsequently have used this exercise in many different contexts for different purposes.

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Opening Session at NASSCOM and Social Innovation Winners

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The opening session started with the lighting of a lamp and welcome from NASSCOM officials to the crowded ballroom fill with 1600 conference attendees from 27 countries, including a delegation from Pakistan. Can we take our collective knowledge and use it to drive public services in many states to a new level of transparency?

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What Mesh Businesses Should Support Philanthropy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, no one to my knowledge has organized a service/platform that would rapidly connect program officers needing reviews to suitable subject matter experts, who happen to be available, complete with a reputation management / feedback system. Scarcity can also drive people and organizations to mesh-based solutions.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. All of my examples were from universities, Jewish Day schools, and camps that made up the audience.

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The Faces of International Development

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The real question is what kind of services and knowledge do people need and how can we help them to help themselves. The question should not be whether to use technology just because it is more popular and it is the way to operate here and now. If ICT is part of the practical and feasible solution -- even better!

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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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. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge. Then the group draws the connections.