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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. That’s a long time. So stay tuned.

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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents. Increasingly, a wide variety of training opportunities are being delivered via LMS.

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What I’m learning

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Michelle, the consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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The scarcity mentality

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. They had realized that if they did that, the client organizations could begin to raise money themselves, instead of depending so heavily on this certain nonprofit.