Note from Beth: I've been looking for good examples of nonprofit mobile strategies. I had to look no further than the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Program. With 75% of the world's fisheries are fished to capacity, or overfished, the fish we order in restaurants or pick up at the grocery store for dinner, has the power to make this situation worse, or improve it. But, as consumers, we don't have that information handy, unless the the restaurant specifically lets us know and, … [Read more...]
How Networked Nonprofits Visualize Their Networks
Two weeks ago, the social media maven from the National Wildlife Federation, Danielle Brigida, tweeted the above photo showing how they were mapping one of their networks with one of my favorite low tech tools: sticky notes. This got my attention because I was designing a Networked Nonprofit workshop for E-Mediat and will incorporate a network mapping exercise. Danielle connected me to Daniel Chu, Vice President, Affiliate and Regional Strategies and resident network weaving … [Read more...]
A Free Agent at Davos!
Shawn Ahmed, Free Agent and founder of the Uncultured Project, has been invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will meet with business leaders and heads of state. This year, Shawn's video was selected from over 100 covering a wide range of topics and debates, to participate in the meetings. A big congrats to Shawn! He will talk about his work -- and the whole notion of free agents working with NGOs as highlighted in our book, The Networked Nonprofit. Shawn has … [Read more...]
E-Mediat: Social Media and Digital Activism in the Arab World
This third and final post shares some insights from the planning sessions for E-Mediat project, a networked approach to capacity building for NGOs in Social Media in the Middle East. (For context, read my first post about this project.) The highlight of third day was a VIP Lunch with project sponsors, implementation team, and remote participation via skype from members of the In-Country teams in Jordan and Morocco. Trish Tierney, Executive Director of IIE from the West Coast Center welcomed … [Read more...]
E-Mediat: A Simple Design Process for an Online Learning Community Site
This second post shares some insights from the planning sessions for E-Mediat project, a networked approach to capacity building for NGOs in Social Media in the Middle East. (For context, read my earlier post) One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. Meedan, an implementation partner, is … [Read more...]
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