Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Circuit Rider School June 11, 2007 Way back when (last month – I’ve been busy) Deborah Finn blogged about the "New England School for Circuit Riders."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. Looking at how to be less of training but more on learning. Working on a series of research studies on the benefits of games.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. This require human centered-software and human-centered communities.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Through training, coaching and consulting, she helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy marketing and communications. She teaches a weekly webinar series and writes a leading blog on nonprofit communications at Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com. Rik Panganiban.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

At the same time you made, IMHO, a very critical mistake by teaching people something about security that just isn’t useful. Though I think Plone’s developers are conscientious about security, it’s really Zope’s security model that keeps add-on developers from routinely shooting everyone in the foot. “itâ??s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? These might include knowledge or skills tests, observations notes, evaluation forms, even anecdotal reports collected after a presentation, workshop, training session, meeting or other communications event.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K. Pollak, T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Companies are starting to use gamification to help train employees, generate surveys, and introduce a friendlier work environment just by simply creating some competition, or using badges, scorecards, and leaderboards. All in all, when gamification enters the workforce it can become an addictive behavior, when put to work in the right way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. The AFL-CIO is non-existent and the Teamsters haven’t logged in since 2007. MySpace is a vast, complicated site.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Through training, coaching and consulting, she helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy marketing and communications. She teaches a weekly webinar series and writes a leading blog on nonprofit communications at Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com. Rik Panganiban.

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JUNE 10, 2011

For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. They used Basecamp to bring together all of the Training Officers at each State Commission throughout the country. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. I've been given an opportunity to help by leading a training and sharing my experience with nonprofits and social media. tools) can make their study, work, and life easier.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Really a lot. Or, they’ll call you because the website really is down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

We envision, in 2007, a country where Cambodians can learn and use computers in their own language, a country that does not have to change to a new language in order to use computers! Databases and applications will be developed directly in Khmer, with easy, standard ways to handle names and data.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

Up with People is a global education program whose mission is to train young people in global leadership and to spark them to action in meeting the needs of their communities, countries, and the world while building bridges of understanding as a foundation for world peace. Don’t be afraid to try new things or to fail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Social Media Game In 2007, David Wilcox and I presented a workshop at LASA using this game he created. We used it for the WeAreMedia workshop and one of the participants, Aids.Gov, remixed a version to train their staff. I created a version to teach folks about creative commons licensing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. Check out NOSI 's plans for NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. If you were not lucky enough to get to Australia to attend the Connecting Up 2007 Conference (the nonprofit technology conference for Aussies!),

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

This fantastic book is filled with profiles of social change visionaries like Priya Haji , CEO and Co-Founder of World of Good ; Katie Redford Co-Founder and US Office Director of Earth Rights International; and Wendy Kopp , Founder of Teach for America. by Steve Chase of the Well-Trained Activist. Great New Book on Organizing!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

can transform the teaching and learning experience. I wanted to let you know about a product called Elluminate Live! Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Elluminate Live! One of the great features of Elluminate, is the no user left behind philosophy. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2013

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007.

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And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. So I’m going to teach you what works so you don’t have to make the mistakes that I did. Paul to teach them a bit about what goes on in Ethiopia, or Uganda, or wherever their camps are.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2010

ToneCheck , a software program that works with Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010, helps to ensure your tone is clearly communicated and understood. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Or, do you have employees whole struggle with the tone of their emails?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Can teach field to use. launched pilot program in 2007 to see if it worked. Trained 100 disaster response volunteers in submitting their info, improving content. We’ve trained volunteers by the hundreds. set goals: decrease number of incoming media calls. increase transparency about disaster response. set audience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The 2007 book, authored by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Lighting : Use more efficient lighting systems, such as those with motion sensors, particularly in your office bathrooms. Kostigen, is a New York Times bestseller.

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