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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

Be sure that your policies and procedures include consistent naming standards for things like campaigns, events, queries, and exports to make searching and reporting easier and more accurate. About the author Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types.

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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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The search for good web conferencing

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 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. One last thing.

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How Software Training Can Impact Your Nonprofit’s Staff Turnover

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Providing the right amount of technology training can have a huge (and positive) impact on employee productivity and satisfaction, which can, in turn, improve staff turnover. Many technology vendors provide training resources that can help your staff learn how to use their products. Here are three simple tips: 1.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Signing up for a Google Account gives you immediate access to a number of Google Products while a Google Profile is your online identity inside of the Googleverse. Again, to re-iterate Google Profiles are public and the information you add to your Google Profile can be viewed by others when you are participating in various Google Products.

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Great reads from January 6th through January 8th

Amy Sample Ward

These are my links for January 6th through January 8th: The Power of Us: Re-Imagine Media | Changemakers - "Join We Media and Ashoka’s Changemakers in the search to find the best new ideas for inspiring a better world through media and technology. Check out some great designs that could get you thinking!

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My system supports my learning goals: One is about product and the other is process. Product-driven learning usually has a predefined specific topic that I need to research with the end goal of creating a presentation, training materials, or writing an article, report, book chapter or book.