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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008. I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. ” Understanding this, I can adjust and customize the curriculum level and content.

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Arts Summit 2008: The Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations - Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was a circuit rider for their Rurals Program where I drove all over New York state working with Rural Arts administrators - teaching them anything and everything from how to set up an excel spreadsheet to using email to powerpoint - to plugging in modems. (I I don't crawl under desks anymore, I'm too old).

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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American Indian Resource Center: A TechSoup Youth Organization Profile

Tech Soup

Because she had a knack for doing computer stuff, she became the de facto IT person and over time developed their infrastructure, which is now based on Microsoft Server 2008 , with the help of consultants from time to time. She is a classic accidental techie, having joined the organization 15 years ago straight out of high school.

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully. issue as they see it.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone. I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. The 16 year old intern, though, is totally game, so maybe it is just about time. [2]

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Getting More out of Online & Offline Events

Forum One

Slideshare is the YouTube of the PowerPoint presentation for those who don't know it yet.) See a recent tweme from our Marketing & Online Community conference 2008. (It's nice to be able to send them a summary/recording of the discussion generated by their questions.) We've got a number of presentations from various events.

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