Capacity Building
In the parlance of the nonprofit world, it is called capacity building. This is a different beast from advocacy.
Capacity building is a fancy term for the ability to get things done. It is a nebulous term, really, because a nonprofit organization can take so many different forms.
Think New Orleans has it’s focus on the capacity building. We are the boring side of the Internet.
We are not trying to build identities, or brands.
We are trying to teach nonprofit organizations how to publish information so that people can find it, and how to use the Internet as office space.
Think New Orleans shows organizations how to share information with their constituents, we show how to lead discussions in public forums that attract participation, we show how to organize events with calendaring tools and authoring tools, how to create living documents through collaborative authoring in a web accessible forum.
With the Internet Workshops, Think New Orleans creates a collaborative environment where nonprofit and neighborhood organizations can share knowledge, publish information, and develop skills and strategies to employ the Internet in the rebuilding or New Orleans.
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