Category Archives: Training & Coaching

Who needs copy-paste? Search for freely licensed images online

Written by jessica. Posted on January 31, 2012. Filed under For Participants, For Trainers, News, Training & Coaching. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
Yesterday, as part of a train-the-trainer assessment, I gave a session about how to use Flickr + Creative Commons to find beautiful images available for remixing and reuse online. There are more than 200 million Creative Commons–licensed photos on Flickr, many of them not relevant to you, of course, but many of them beautiful (like [...]

Writing Net-centric Proposals

Written by jessica. Posted on October 26, 2011. Filed under For Local NGOs, For Trainers, News, Training & Coaching. Tagged , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Network connector by smswigart on Flickr.
Updated November 16 to reflect link to the manifesto for Agile software development, thanks to Kristin Antin. For the past few days, I’ve been working on developing a module for our MADskills participants on how to write strong proposals that integrate, rather than simply graft on, digital and social media. Most of the resources I’ve [...]

5 Steps to Tactical Innovation: A Workshop with New Tactics’ Nancy Pearson

Written by jessica. Posted on September 15, 2011. Filed under For Donors & Partners, For Local NGOs, For Trainers, News, Training & Coaching. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
New Tactics Workbook Cover
Advancing human rights requires the capacity to innovate tactics for comprehensive strategies that can address the complex problems our communities face today. For more than a decade, the New Tactics in Human Rights project at the Center for Victims of Torture USA has worked to create unique resources that enable activists worldwide to build their [...]