Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. Try not to get excited or too dramatic. And don’t cough or sneeze into the mic as your voice is in their headsets at all time.

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Facilitation Training Train International 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The last time I shared a plenary stage with Marcelo Iniarra was in 2014 at the International Fundraising Congress where he rode a bicycle on stage! Content is king. It makes content creation more effective. Empowerment. The official title of the session was “Donor Engagement in An Age of Complexity.”

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Donor Learning Online Fundraising 89

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Content access on the internet is a constant area of fascination to me. Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. Hadley's international branch is located in Fuzhou, China.

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China Skype Empowerment Student 100

sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

It gets into some real finite looks at strategy, too, and types of approaches that work, including participation, serving great content, top down influencer approaches and empowerment techniques like crowdsourcing. I throw out voices that get repetitive or too self focused. The big nonprofits have come to play.

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Question Social Media Empowerment United States 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I liked the feeling of empowerment and how it can shift you out of your usual way of thinking. The peer coaching exercise allowed participants to work in small groups of three people and take turns being the talker, listener, and witness. “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 127

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While a comprehensive 2003 report by Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman rightly notes that "the digital divide is a continuum ranging from physical access, financial access, cognitive access, and content access to political access," they go on to assert that "Income is the most important factor that affects Internet diffusion."

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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

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. It almost always naturally leads to discussion about how to amplify each other’s voices using social media.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113