Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

Visualize: I am very interested in data visualization and infographics and the various techniques that we can use everyday to visualize our work – and be more creative and effective. I want to understand how to make this skill accessible to all of us. What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience. TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012. This is similar to the pomodoro technique. He suggests setting year-long goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

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.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

Recognizing the significant role of NGOs as influential agents of change on a global scale, The Global Journal has sought to move beyond outdated clichés and narrow conceptions about what an NGO is and does. Social media has become an integral part of UNICEF’s outreach strategy for main publications and campaigns."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

Once I recover from the journey, expect read reports about the Networked NGO in Rwanda and use of social media to support Women’s Rights organizations. Her blog, Vistas provides insights, strategies, techniques, and solutions that help values-driven businesses realize their social-change missions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Just A Little Content To Get Started .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it. I’m always learning as I help others learn. Here’s a couple of reflections from my “trainer’s notebook.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. He's learned from these experiments that it is challenging to adopt these tools/techniques and there needs to be an investment in teaching and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder? Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

Her blog, Vistas provides insights, strategies, techniques, and solutions that help values-driven businesses realize their social-change missions. So, when Geri offered up this second post about nonprofits and LinkedIn, I couldn’t resist. Note from Beth: I’m just finishing up an intensive training here in Rwanda.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Speaking of Salesforce , they just announced NGO Connect , a new app to help nonprofits connect every aspect of their work for greater impact. StartingGood Digital Summit is an online event exploring the tactics, tools, and techniques entrepreneurs are using to create change today. RSVP and boogie on down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2006

Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. Technorati Tags: ngo , flickr , net2 , nptech Flickr Official Documents How to get the most out of flickr FAQ. Flickr Tools The Great Flickr Tool Collection. Backgrounders Interview with Flickr Founder.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Our team members are creating an “accountability toolkit” – a set of innovative techniques for identifying patterns of responsibility for grave human rights crimes. First, in partnership with Colombian NGO Corporación Punto de Vista, we assessed a methodology for studying conflict-related sexual violence in the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. In order to do this, you need to give people a brief context and articulate the interaction rules. I suspect I’m not alone.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

If fundraising is the only measure of what makes an NGO effective, then I worry about what the real value proposition is of organizations soliciting donations. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection. The challenge is creating a high touch experience online as well as off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

The idea is to bring together students, professional Bloggers, writers, NGO workers, media, and tech gurus from within and outside Cambodia to share and learn more from each other on about how the ICT (including Open Source Software and Web2.0 A conference workshop on blogging techniques and video blogging techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit , e-advocacy But it is far less critical that your organization choose the most appropriate tool than it is that you are able to make appropriate decisions and take effective action no matter which new tool comes on the market.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Or maybe your nonprofit is actually an NGO based in another country. You should have a data collection system that helps evaluate which fundraising techniques bring in new donors and which techniques help you retain donors or take them to the next level. Do you have (or will have) a facility?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

techniques -- blog, viral video, etc. How do you find the time to incorporate these new techniques into your communications plan? As staff members who work with nonprofits and technology for ngo doing development work, what blogs you read to keep up with what's going on in your field? Fight Hunger is using a lot of new web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

I didn't go (too expensive for my budget), but I had the pleasure of having dinner in Boston's North End with Nancy White (who was attending and leading a workshop on virtual meetings ) and a few other conference participants, including two fascinating women who work in the areas of collaborative technologies, online learning, and NGOS.

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OpenAI

AUGUST 24, 2022

Using scientific experiments, we study how alignment techniques scale and where they will break. Training AI systems using human feedback RL from human feedback is our main technique for aligning our deployed language models today. Solving these problems is important to achieving our mission , but we do not discuss them in this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

She has worked for that NGO for almost two years. With the commitment to start the blog, I asked expert people and used self-learnin to master the techniques. photo by Oso Sopheap blogs at ifocus with the tagline ???three three dimensions of life.??? What are some of the benefits?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 7, 2006

Like a lot of the web apps I find noteworthy these days, its not so much that this service will change your life, as it will show you what is possible with new browser-based programming techniques. One is from Vickie Davis's Cool Cat Teacher Blog. Meanwhile, Amy Gahran takes on the etiquette of editing already posted material.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

Whether you’re a small community organization or a large international NGO, selecting the right technology is key for achieving fundraising success in 2024. Using nonprofit storytelling techniques will ensure your messaging hits home. Make data-driven decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

see here ) In celebration of International Women's Day, Joe's Blog showcases some games that are designed to teach us about this issue, along with ways to support NGO's doing work in this area. Check out this disaster simulation game from the UNISDR called Stop Disasters ! here , using the ICT4peace tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. . ”FB can be a catalyst and lever to tackle wicked problems.” ” In these three ways. Boundless communities. Momentum without limits. Empower participants and constituents.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

InterAction Forum 2019 will feature the world's most influential and inspiring organizations, change makers, and executives from the public, private and NGO sectors. It's a vast, immersive uniquely comprehensive experience for the latest strategies, techniques and innovations in direct response marketing and fundraising.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

2023; Ngo et al., For example, there are cases of LLM encrypting information using steganography techniques (Roger & Greenblatt, 2023). Its especially relevant for alignment to test whether a model is situationally aware : if the model can tell what phase it is in, namely, training, testing, or deployment (Berglund et al.,

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Growth hacking is more of a mindset of experimentation than tactics and techniques. Today, your next door neighbor is seen as just as credible a source of information as an academic, government, business or even an NGO. It’s a particularly useful framework since nearly everything we’ve learned about engagement is changing.

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