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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. Better Method: Create Visualizations of Important Data and Pull Together On One Slide.

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How to choose a CRM

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 How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow.

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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

Since we shared my laptop, she kindly gave me permission to upload her slides). You can find the slides and resources at my Arts and Social Media wiki. I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop. I had the pleasure of sharing the podium with Susan Chun who spoke about the Steve project.

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RIP Google Reader: Don’t Scream Who Moved My Cheese, Pivot Your Reading

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That’s why when I teach people about RSS Readers, I focused on the practice and offered them a variety tool options – see above slide from a recent workshop. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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Tips for Remote Presenting

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There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. Since the meeting was taking place in Los Angeles, FFOG was graciously allowed me to present remotely with Liz Karlin.

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"2008 is going to be a challening year." To quote Yogi Berra, "It's deja vu all over again."

Connection Cafe

"2008 is going to be a challenging year." While I don't think anyone anticipated that the end of 2008 would be as ugly as it was, the content of the article is probably even more valuable today. Many of us made resolutions last year - we probably kept some and let others slide.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graphing Social Patterns: My Slides. How To Share the Social Media Workload in Your Organization. Twitter on Paper Icebreaker. Nonprofit Blogging Policies. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You. Giving Good Poke. America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Social Media Metrics: Distributed Influence.

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