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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation by Kathy Reich. They can, for example, provide executive directors with leadership training, organizations with skills and tools to develop strategic plans, and networks with training on the latest technologies to scale their work across the globe.

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WeAreMedia: Listening for Nonprofits in a Connected World

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My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. But that was last month's thinking, the Webinar gave me a chance to reflect and incorporate new learnings, particularly with some of the professional tools. Our session covered: Why listening offers value.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

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.” It replaces the old school model of sitting and listening with E-energize learners, help them N-navigate, let them G-Generate personal meaning and A-Apply their skills,G-Gauge and celebrate their learning and E-Extend what they learn to action. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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Jane Bozarth’s “ From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers ” includes some excellent templates and examples for training evaluation surveys. I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki. Learner Culmination and Celebration.

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Open Source for Nonprofits: Programs to Try (Part 2)

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CiviCRM even has some basic HR management tools to help nonprofits keep track of their volunteers, new jobs, and related documents. Vancouver-based Art for Impact is a nonprofit that celebrates the power of art for social change. Human Resources Management (HRM). Aleksandr Peterson is a technology analyst at TechnologyAdvice.

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The Windows 8 Apps for Good Contest Is Live!

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To celebrate the launch of the highly anticipated Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 products, we're partnering with Microsoft to empower app creators to take their ideas to the streets. For the purposes of this contest, Microsoft Citizenship recommends the TechSoup Hacker Help Wiki. That's what we're talking about.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

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Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. Tools social media Twitter NetSquared'