Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had more time to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. What Are the Biggest Barriers to More Widespread NGO Migration to the Cloud? Find the first and second post in this series online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Just A Little Content To Get Started .

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

The first option was to build our own bespoke tool, where we could ask the exact questions we wanted with tailored data visualization tools. I know from being in the NGO world for many years what kind of a burden that can be. Nancy: We explored two viable options carefully, with a review of the pros and cons for each approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

If you work for an NGO in another region of the world or have experience delivering capacity building program, I encourage you to join the discussion here. Packard Grantees from Pakistan, with In-Country Team. I’m very grateful that the OE Team at Packard has shared this guest post about this important topic. Why/why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Training Design' Photo by Be Chandra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One thing I have learned working mostly outside of the US is to start a training by honoring a local tradition. New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. What question do they want to answer by the end of the day? Connecting Up Master Class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. Over the next two weeks, I will be sharing what I learn about the connections of networks, networked approaches, and social media for Women’s Rights NGOs in Africa.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

You can ask members of the community questions via blog posts, @replies on Twitter and via email (zambia@learnasone.org). Before they head home, they will train the local community and the NGO partner how to use a Flip video and digital camera so update can continue. What do you need? No imposing western ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

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. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda. It’s also a way of becoming a thought-leader, by answering the questions of others. What would you answer to the question posed above? Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Anna Jaeger and Kevin Lo of TechSoup Global presented baseline data from our 2012 Global NGO Cloud Survey that raised important questions for the audience thinking about. organizations are preoccupied with the security of the providers, rather than focused on training their own staff to maintain security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. Points of connection included: -Training. Working with NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

As of this writing, we also have the only online course through Udemy that trains nonprofits in managing this grant. The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer data are in, and while we are living through a multi-year decline in public trust, the NGO sector remains the leader in what trust we have left in four major sectors.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" Now here's the rub: for this to work for you and the community, plan to answer twice as many questions as you ask. Search LinkedIn and Google groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Here’s a curated transcript of the chat that I pulled together. But for this post, I’d like to dig into one of the questions, ”How do you measure your network so you know if it is growing stronger?” GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Radio Bilingue. Have you mapped your network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

The idea is to bring together students, professional Bloggers, writers, NGO workers, media, and tech gurus from within and outside Cambodia to share and learn more from each other on about how the ICT (including Open Source Software and Web2.0 tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. Keynote welcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

Last year, the Sharing Foundation's sewing school, a vocational training program, made over 1250 uniform sets and donated them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage. Also, as a board member, feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

, but she remembers she has a friend living in Phnom Penh who can helps her answer these questions. As a result for their efforts, one NGO staff finds and reads the content of the blog, and feels that he must do something to helps her. Her friend is really helpful. She comes along the way from Phnom Penh and asks her the whole story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. Perhaps have them flip through the cards and come up with a list of questions. If there was all-day instruction on the Web 2.0 tools, this would have worked as a culminating activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation. Technorati Tags: CoP2.0 , CP2Web2 , net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit. Are blog conversations as satisfying, rich, or stimulating as other methods? Can blog communities be facilitated? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

It sounds like you're an "accidental techie" - in that you didn't get training to do tech stuff. What are your most challenging moments as the technical person in your ngo? m sorry, this is the question I???m m not just accidental, I???m m not really a techie at all. m going to fail on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2006

Rebecca is the founder of the nonprofit, Asthma Free School Zone and she was kind enough to answer my e-interview questions: Briefly describe Asthma Free School Zone. Because the field doesn't require creativity, a creative person can very easily make a special contribution. And, if you really want to do this kind of work … call me!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

There were some questions about whether at some point gender relationships in Cambodia (which can be difficult) will translate to the online experience. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. She notes that women can blog about politics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . I do a quick review of my training materials with a "US Centric Lens." What does that mean?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The question is "When is video a good. Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. isn't as negative as it sounds. content will be better when it's delivered in other, more appropriate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It takes a lot of training on behalf of the project managers that oversee the process. He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. So, that's what we did. We would bring students.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 26, 2015

The process takes about a month usually once a local partner is trained and ready to go. As the work entails creating a schematic drawing for each station, a Metro4All trainer needs to come and train its partners in person. Maxim Dubinin and his team members then analyze and visualize data related to metro usage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Each speaker did an excellent job answering the question, “ What does the future of social look like? One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. Workshop/Training Reflections. That’s not what happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

The participants work together in small groups, ask questions and discuss problems, and work together to find solutions and initiate joint projects. The event was organized by Appleseeds Academy , an Israeli NGO that works to reduce social gaps in Israel through the use of tech tools and the development of life skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

." - Amira Diamond Women's Earth Alliance (WEA), unites women on the front lines of environmental justice causes by coordinating training, technology, and financial support for thriving communities and the Earth. We do that by coordinating training, technology, and advocacy support. This training was tremendous. What was that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

The organization's founder, Brande Jackson, took the time to answer my Solutionary Women e-interview questions. Well, as I am answering these questions, I’m getting bounced around by some nasty turbulence somewhere over Tennessee! Ask questions, think of new ways to do the tried and true, and continuously challenge yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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