I've just returned from an amazing trip of facilitating workshops, discussions and master classes as well as a keynoting a conference on "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" in Australia and New Zealand. It made me very happy to be teaching non-stop for almost two weeks. I'm always learning as I help others learn. Here's a couple of reflections from my "trainer's notebook." I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called "The Networked NGO in New Zealand," this workshop … [Read more...]
#datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts
Source: Gemma Correll - I Love Charts Note from Beth: I just knew that I was going to start obsessing about charts and graphs after my Excel spreadsheet obsessions started. I thought if I set up a tumblr blog curating great nonprofit spreadsheets, but the next logical step is create visualizations of your data. What better way than in Excel. I got into a wonderful conversation with Stephanie Evergreen, another nonprofit datanerd who loves spreadsheets who offered to write up this guest … [Read more...]
Transmedia — Making Change Across Mediums
Note From Beth: I'm on my way to Australia and New Zealand lead a series of workshops on Networked Nonprofits and Measurement, culminating with a keynote at this year's ConnectingUp Conference in Australia, so expect to see a few interesting guest posts. I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a "Transmedia" strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this … [Read more...]
The Networked NGO in Australia and New Zealand: Te Ao Maori
I'm headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia's version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference). I am excited for a return visit to Australia. I delivered the keynote there in 2008 and taught a workshop, "Take Me To The Social Web." One of the workshop participants was Stephen Blyth of Common Knowledge - a long time nonprofit capacity builder and trainer - who invited me to come over to New Zealand … [Read more...]
Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp
I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand. The camp was organized by Thai … [Read more...]
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