[slideshare id=6814180&doc=seattle-tech-for-goodsummit-110204120400-phpapp01] Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs, in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts, the event held the space for peer learning. It was great to see long-time colleague from NPower Seattle Peg Giffels who I met ten years ago when she first joined the staff. I was presenting a strategic technology … [Read more...]
Guided Visualizations at a Social Media Strategy Workshop
Note from Beth: As a trainer, I'm constantly on the prowl for new ideas for activities and exercises that get beyond death by PowerPoint. After spending a lot of time developing trainer of trainers curriculum, it is also fun to incorporate new ideas. I've looked to meditation and reflection practices before - in fact - last year during a guest instructor appearance in Jennifer Aaker's "Power of Social Technology" class at Stanford, I had the class do a reflection activity that involved … [Read more...]
Practical and Tactical Social Media for Nonprofits
If you are wondering about the chart, it came a cool free tool called "Export.ly" It will analyze your Twitter audience, Facebook page, and even your email box by grabbing the data and dumping it into a spreadsheet. You pay per export and right now you can pay with a Tweet. I used it analyze the Facebook page. It compliments the data that you get from Insights - it lets you aggregate and analyze the comments and posts from your page. It is particularly useful if you want to easily get a … [Read more...]
Pause: The Discipline of Noticing
Last month, I had the opportunity to participate in a "Share Your Practice" with colleagues at CPSquared (a community of practice of people who are interested in communities of practice). These sessions are a social reflection process - you intentionally reflect together with professional colleagues on the trade craft of your work. How many of us have the discipline to notice what we're doing with our professional work? Our natural tendency is to keeping moving forward on the to do list, to … [Read more...]
Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy
I've been closely following the use of social media for activism the Arab world given the project I'm about to begin work on at the end of the February. Jillian York, a US-based blogger who free expression, politics, and the Internet, with particular focus on the Arab world and also write for Global Voices (see their special coverage of the Egyptian protests here. ) Jillian has been asked this question a lot in the last few days by journalists, "How are protesters in Egypt Using Social … [Read more...]
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