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Connected Citizens Report: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form. Decentralization and Individual Empowerment: As power is pushed to the edges, individuals will have an increasing ability to exert influence through social and broadcast media. These themes include: 1.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. . Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. .

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. I wish I had done a structured creative thinking exercise to get people comfortable. The Importance of Icebreakers: Getting To Know People in the Room.

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The Enemy Of Engagement - Book Highlights

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In the book, you''ll learn how to enable employees , including these techniques: Put them in optimized roles that leverage their skills and abilities Give them the tools, technology, information, and a supportive environment Get out of their way Don''t introduce procedural barriers Don''t dilute their focus Don''t consume their energy with tasks that (..)

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.”

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The Enemy of Engagement In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In the book, you'll learn how to enable employees , including these techniques: Put them in optimized roles that leverage their skills and abilities Give them the tools, technology, information, and a supportive environment Get out of their way Don't introduce procedural barriers Don't dilute their focus Don't consume their energy with tasks that don't (..)

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Book Review: The Enemy Of Engagement

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In the book, you'll learn how to enable employees , including these techniques: Put them in optimized roles that leverage their skills and abilities Give them the tools, technology, information, and a supportive environment Get out of their way Don't introduce procedural barriers Don't dilute their focus Don't consume their energy with tasks that don't (..)

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