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Trainer’s Notebook: Tips for Good Openings

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Our group also visited Starfish Impact School , where we learned about their work to ensure indigenous girls have equal access to education and provided mentoring and training for young women graduates of Starfish. Nonprofit blogger Vu Lee has some tips on what types of openers to avoid. A Few Examples of Good Openers.

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Make Your Nonprofit Board Meetings Magical

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No one likes a dull board meeting, or a long one, or one that doesn’t start on time. That’s why we turned to guest blogger Susan Schaefer for fresh ideas on this problem in this week’s guest post. . Chances are, they share these traits: Convenient, agreed-upon meeting time and location. Prompt start and end times.

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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog

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I am fascinated by the possibilities of blogging in the foreign language classroom. Since then Langwitches Blog has turned into a Professional Development tool for me as well as for other foreign language educators. t feel I can ever balance my online life with being a parent and working full time the way I would like to.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

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Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. possibly related classroom projects??? Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ?

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

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From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. local time). Media isn't just happening to kids.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

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What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? These are events where a group of bloggers write about a particularly topic on a particular day. The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. I think it means nothing.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

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Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. The "invited live bloggers" are Susan Herr , Tactical Philanthropy , Worldchanging and Lucy. What about other conference attendees who might also be bloggers?