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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. Making accommodations comes down to respectful language and accommodations that require observing and checking in with participants. Respectful language is important. However, the term “Walking Meetings,” is ableist.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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What is the Turkey and the Bread (or the Sourdough Starter) of the MAH?

Museum 2.0

It's run by Becky Mangiotta and Joe McCannon, two brilliant nerds who led national movements in homelessness and public health and then decided to teach others how to do it. Other times, a visitor might use the exact language of our strategic documents. And if you have an opinion on this, I'd LOVE to hear it.)

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The Story of Stuff: An Inspiring Example of A Network in Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit. I’ll be co-teaching with Mary Joyce, Jessica Dheere and Mohamad Najem and working with an amazing group of people from six Arab countries. 2) Networks are participatory. People have spray painted the URL on bus stops.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I could practically teaching this class. We don’t have the language to talk about drug abuse and really aren’t equipped to be able to help them live a healthier lifestyle and address chemical use directly. How do we do this well?