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3 Top Learning Strategies You Need To Change The World

Bloomerang

And with today’s rapid pace of change, confident learning has become critical to adapting, adopting, and feeling connected to the world we inhabit. How might you more fully adopt writing as a learning strategy for yourself? Identify a key value that governs your behavior or life. Actually, it has to do with everything.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region. We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. He is also currently the country manager for the One Laptop per Child Project.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

Qgiv

NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network is focused on helping nonprofit staff adopt new technologies in their chosen areas of expertise, and to thrive by doing so. And keep in mind: As a grant writer, you will need to focus and spend long stretches of time in a quiet environment working on your computer or laptop.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it.

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5 Tips to Elevate Your Donor Outreach This Year

Qgiv

She has contributed to publications of BoardSource and The Governance Institute, as well as the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and The Giving Institute. In fact, there are two strategies you can adopt right now to prove your appreciation through actions: providing convenient donation opportunities and keeping donor information secure.

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My Organization is in “the cloud”! – What does that mean?

3rd Sector Labs

This is a problem for all industries, but especially for the nonprofit sector, because the private sector and government will typically pay more for the talent. How many stories have we read about banks, retailers, and our government being hacked and sensitive data being stolen? What do we do?