@Rubsfido @jfclearywisc social media ia a great platform for learning — Agnes Binagwaho (@agnesbinagwaho) April 30, 2012 I'm headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the  ACE project, a network of African Women's Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region.  The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program.   The participating NGOs include Women's Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia   I'll be … [Read more...]

My friend and colleague, June Holley, has written a much anticipated book, The Network Weaver Handbook.  If you are interested in building networks or working as Networked Nonprofit, you need this book right now! The Network Weaver Handbook is designed to give you skills and resources you need to build effective and innovative networks.  The handbook offers advice and resources for those who just starting out to those involved in well-established networks.   The book gives you the basics of … [Read more...]

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US.    Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called "The Networked NGO," based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit.    The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.  It marked the start of  a six … [Read more...]

After facilitating the two-day  E-mediat Networking Conference, "New Media for the Networked NGO" in Jordan at the Dead Sea last week,  I flew 2,000 miles west to Fez, Morocco to facilitate and keynote a second two-day conference for NGOs from Tunisia and Morocco that had successfully completed the e-mediat program in their countries, Morocco and Tunsia.   The conference in Morocco was a "tri-lingual event" and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and … [Read more...]