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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops). I said yes. Social Learning: Face-to-Face.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. But as more nonprofit arts organization hoisted their first web sites, they wanted how to information.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Check out NOSI 's plans for NTC.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers."

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.