Pinning Our Lives: Pinterest and Beyond View more presentations from Aliza Sherman Back in January, I wrote a post about Pinterest  as a curation tool to organize and share visual content I've collected in a pleasing visual way.   As the platform has evolved over the past few months,  there are some other benefits including driving traffic and conversions and more recently how pinning helps encourage audiences to "like" the brand more. I've be facilitating a few introductory workshops and … [Read more...]

Women Who Tech Around the World View more presentations from Beth Kanter Yesterday, I had the honor of participating in the  4th annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit that brings together women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. Created by Alyson Kapin four years ago, WomenWhoTech is a network for thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and … [Read more...]

Last month I did a Networked NGO training in Dubai for Pakistan NGOs where I experienced Internet censorship first hand.  The government blocks certain sites, including access to any group organizing features on social sites (shared photo pools for example), skype out, and tools like VPNs that can help you get around government censors.     Eventually, I was able to install a VPN and get to the sites I wanted to use. This week will be our first peer call to follow up from the training which … [Read more...]

Ag Grantees Twitter Webinar   View more presentations from Beth Kanter As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation,  my work plan includes delivering many different peer learning opportunities, coaching, and training with grantees.    Yesterday,  I had the pleasure of doing a Webinar for grantees of the Agriculture Sub-Program.    This blog post summarizes some of the knowledge shared about effective social media strategy, tactics, and practices. In the many years that I've been … [Read more...]

Note from Beth: I'm working in Dubai this week and have lined up some guest posts from some colleagues.    Daniel Ben-Horin from TechSoup Global wrote a thought provoking post over at the SSIR about generational differences in nonprofits when it comes to trying to scale social change strategies using social technologies.  It prompted some great discussion and I hope you'll participate. Scrappy VS Strategic - Guest Post by Daniel Ben-Horin I loathe the cloying mock humility of the twitterverse … [Read more...]