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If You Do Nothing Else, Use An Editorial Calendar and Measurement for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media. Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications. My Three Words.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Blyth, a nonprofit capacity builder who I met when I keynoted Connecting Up in 2008, hosted my trip to NZ and arranged for this workshop to take place on Makaurau Marae which is the land of Maori. This is an exercise I used in Tunisia. Getting fresh air and walking helps people digest. Walking Debrief. v/bEZXiLl7HEU.

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Bookshare.org.in (India)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We get the 3,000 books we have permissions for through our processes and in our collection. Dipendra has been a subscriber to Bookshare.org for our O'Reilly technical titles, but we're trying to move beyond these into serving a full range of books with publisher and author permissions.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. Azzam whose team had won 3rd place in the Microsoft’s Imagine Cup , a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

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E-Mediat Day 4: What does it mean to be a social media trainer?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. The national anthem from Tunisia brought tears to my eyes – in part – because feeling in which they sang it – and the team leader, Chema, has a beautiful singing voice.

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Great reads from around the web on February 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Research in Pew's report, Inaccurate, Costly, and Inefficient, underscores the need for registration systems that better maintain voter records, save money, and streamline processes. What we rarely talk about is how we talk about digital activism: Is our focus in the right place? Do we know what we’re talking about?

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