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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

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100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. 100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This was the launch of a peer learning group called “The Networked NGO,” based on [.]

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Need Answers: LinkedIn Has Them

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our choices and our voices matter. You get a variety of opinions, options to weigh, and ways to proceed (policy about funders anyone?) as well as being able to show who you are by voicing your own opinion. What is your organization’s policy about the source of funding? Which is why LinkedIn discussions are important.

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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

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It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. This is true both of us as individuals, but also in terms of broader policy.

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#IFC2014 International Fundraising Congress: Inspire, Connect, Transform

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). Ben gave an amazing talk about some of the success stories from Change.Org where anyone can start a micro movement to galvanise support and change real-world policy.

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BlogHers, Gender Blogging, and Linux Chix in Cambodia!

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David Saski from Global Voices summarized her presentation: Dee Dee's 10 minute introduction to why she blogs and what she got out of it put a big smile on my face. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. Dee Dee with the BlogHer bag!