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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

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This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The Accelerated Learning Handbook. By Dave Meier. by Eric Jensen. by Sharon Bowman.

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The Perils of Popularity

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Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. Can our brain handle it? I know you and you know her and i connect to you, I can be connected to her. Will google set it free in 2007 ?

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

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Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People in Philadelphia

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Crash Course: Social Media for Arts People View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain. I also got a chance to spend some time with Thomas Taylor , the Alliance's nonprofit technology in-house guru and social media whiz who turned me to twitpic.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). More information here.

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Be Your Own Filter In the Global Brain

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He talks about the impact of too much information on the human brain and considers how the human brain may evolve over time as the Internet matures and the amount of digital information increases. Some neurons in my brain made me connect back to Shenk's book I attended NDN's New Audiences, New Tools Forum. He said no.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

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Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. After the introduction, I gave my brief presentation. He talked about the growth of wikipedia.

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