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Furthering Your Nonprofit Career: 3 Tips for Development

Bloomerang

Discuss on-the-job opportunities with managers. Higher job satisfaction. When you enjoy your job, you’ll be less likely to leave and find a new position somewhere else. To start your search, you need to understand the different options available to you. Actively look for new learning opportunities. . Let’s get started. .

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eBooks #2: So you want to e-publish? Mechanics…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From what I can tell, Barnes and Noble is the only one of the list of these outlets that really distinguishes between self-publishers and regular publishers in the experience of customers viewing/searching for eBooks. Make sure, of course, that your manuscript has the right types of cover pages, etc. that are standard for eBooks.

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3 Reasons to Explore Virtual Training For Nonprofit Staff

Connection Cafe

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. These will help drive your search for new training opportunities.

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Vendorspeak

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people. Be Helpful.

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Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

NTEN

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Open source software is often an important ingredient for the engineers to consider, and not just because of the low acquisition cost.

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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

Tech Soup

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.