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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Every month I bring you a roundup of free technology training events that will help nonprofit staffers like you build their skills. Event formats — for example, a lecture, a panel, a world cafe, or speed dating, and how keep them effective and manageable. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

David Wiley's keynote was on the social returns from a new venture he helped create, Flat World Knowledge. Flat World is a for-profit social enterprise that gives away its core textbooks under a creative commons license, and makes its money on ancillary products like a black and white print version for $30 (vs.

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. Read the post from Brian Lamb. blame the internet! :-).

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What Does a NetSquared Event Look Like?

Tech Soup

Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Describing NetSquared events is difficult, because each one focuses on a different topic and has a unique flavor set by the organizing team. Image 1 : Elijah van der Giessen / CC BY-NC.

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Buying a LMS? Acronyms You Must Know (Part 2)

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Training is generally delivered through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, discussions, etc. MOC -Maintenance of Certification : A mandated annual certification or training course that professionals in certain fields must take to keep an active practicing license.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. And although we had some people tweeting from sessions, to me it seemed like we were missing an opportunity but not having a perhaps more organized approach to having our conference audience help “cover” or document the conference. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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The Story of Stuff: An Inspiring Example of A Network in Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hundreds of advocates and allies helped create it and had a stake in it. She says it was “network-held&# resource. They can get millions of people to help, not just paid staff. (3) It wasn’t until she learned to let go of control and shift from lecturing people to inviting them in that conversation exploded.

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