article thumbnail

The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Program Design.

Pakistan 111
article thumbnail

The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Building a solid core, participants can use social media tools to easily connect NGOS with new people who have knowledge, resources, and ideas to share to help with the project goals. I exchange useful information with this person on a regular basis and I am working with them on a project.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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?

Open 92
article thumbnail

The Faces of International Development

Forum One

Maybe it is not about how many NGOs or how many projects are in one country, it is about the quality of those projects and their mission. The real question is what kind of services and knowledge do people need and how can we help them to help themselves. Everyone had a mission and wanted to achieve their end goal.

article thumbnail

Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

article thumbnail

How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

article thumbnail

Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing is defined broadly as: The process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. A group of individuals has more knowledge for solving a problem than any single individual. 2) Crowd Creation. 2) Crowd Creation.

Measure 96