Happy Fourth of July! I was going to write something patriotic about social media, but I got an email from Mari Tikkanen with story about her recent experience working with maternal/reproductive health organizations and human rights NGOs in Nigeria for the MacArthur Foundation. Mari mentioned in an email was that one of the women in this workshop was a lawyer, who heads up WRAPA (Women's Rights and Protection Alternative) and LACVAW, a coalition of 70 orgs working on rights issues (see … [Read more...]
Balance the Spontaneous and Strategic of Social Media: Newsjacking and Obamacare
As part of my work at the Packard Foundation this year, I'm honored to be working on a project called "Friending the Finishline," a group of children's health advocates who are working together on a peer learning exchange to discover how to best use Facebook and other social networking tools to advance their work in children’s health. One area of challenge: balancing strategic communications with spontaneity of social media. The spontaneous part is all the organic stuff, … [Read more...]
The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning
After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs. At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation … [Read more...]
TechCamp: Empowering Women Through Technology
Note from Beth: With all the travel I've been doing, I was hoping that I could sync my schedule with attending TechCamp, a program under Secretary Clinton’s Civil Society (CS) 2.0 initiative – an effort to galvanize the technology community to assist civil society organizations (CSOs) across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to harness the latest information and communications technology (ICT) advances to build their digital capacity. Unfortunately, that was not … [Read more...]
Wiser Giving: What's Your Giving Style?
Shel Israel describes social or goodwill fundraising (individual raising money and giving to causes) as the “cult of generosity” – I would like to call “Individual Social Responsibility” – like there is “Corporate Social Responsibility,” it is also important for individuals to be generous. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t be strategic. I learned this from Giving 2.0 author Laura Arrillaga-Andresseen (who wrote the foreword to my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit). While … [Read more...]
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