Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. Roots of Change talked about how they always work with other organizational partners to cross fertilize or build movements around their policy change ideas. Spectragram. We used: I love grass-fed beef. Building Networks of Partners.

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Case Study Social Media Studies Integration 99

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved. First of all, you can make a postcard!

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

C3-ers generated great and useful ideas, but they were functionally an assembly of creative individuals, efficiently giving us input. While C3 is open for any staff members to participate, they have to make that same time commitment too to be part of the group. But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. Low on friction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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India NGO Network Exercise 103

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. He had no idea where his family went.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. Second, Empowerment.

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Teach Support Technology Empowerment 100

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. Britt: What drives you to do this work rather than other work?

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Green Global Action Network 40

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Right now, though, we want to share the 21 other fresh ideas that were pitched.

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Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

The frames not only enhanced the aesthetic, but also visually communicated that the pop up museum serves as an open framework for the participant’s narratives. Furthermore, open frames enable participants to physically touch exhibited content while demonstrating that the object still deserves special recognition.

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Museum Grant Lesson History 49

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I have a small one -- just three pages -- which I think will be somewhat useful, but I think there's a lot of really amazing testimony and ideas in that book. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. We never saw it in action before we started doing it. There's an amazing group of articles in there.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40