I've just returned from an amazing trip of facilitating workshops, discussions and master classes as well as a keynoting a conference on "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" in Australia and New Zealand. It made me very happy to be teaching non-stop for almost two weeks. I'm always learning as I help others learn. Here's a couple of reflections from my "trainer's notebook." I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called "The Networked NGO in New Zealand," this workshop … [Read more...]
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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop
[slideshare id=18216702&doc=knight-chicago-april4-130405000428-phpapp01] Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center's Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. The workshop topics included trends in digital media consumption, social media, engagement on mobile devices and a variety of community foundation projects funded by the Knight Community Information Challenge. I was part of the first-day that featured mobile … [Read more...]
Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World
“New Skills for a Complex World” was the theme of the seventh annual Nonprofit Management Institute, a two-day conference for several hundred nonprofit leaders sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) earlier this week. I had the honor of being on the faculty to do a master class on leading networked nonprofits. But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford … [Read more...]
E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World
That's one of my favorite photos from Beirut, taken in March, 2011 during E-Mediat Train-the-Trainers intensive workshop that kicked off the 18-month capacity building project for NGOs in the Arab World about using social media to realize civil society goals. I'm sitting next to my colleague, Lena, a master trainer from Yemen - engaging in a some shoulder to shoulder learning. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. It is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle … [Read more...]
What's Your Calling?
At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents, I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. The photo shows us modeling "shoulder to shoulder" learning. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling. Later, Michael Hoffman, who was in the audience, introduced me to his friends at "The Calling" and they suggested I write a guest post about anything I'm … [Read more...]