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Your 10 Point Checklist For Nonprofit Newsletter Writing

TechImpact

Passive content gathering is when you are working throughout the week, aggregating links, content and information as you unintentionally stumble over it. Send your newsletter to someone who reads it on their laptop, and to another one who is going to read it on their smart phone. Check, check and check again.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Online Interaction Tools To Engage Your Audience in the Room and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Online versions of assessments for participants that would can calculate individual scores and show aggregate results. Slido allows you to crowd source questions from the audience who can use the web site from their mobile phones or laptops in real time. Flash polls. I tested a few different options and here’s what I learned so far.

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Collecting Data in Low Resource Areas: How to Get Started

NTEN

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? That means collecting the data at the source, aggregating the data, verifying the data, creating meaningful reports, and analyzing the data for decision-making.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up

NTEN

Here are highlights from the web of NTEN members doing their, you know, NTEN-type awesomeness: NARAL-Pro Choice America launched a contest on Twitter last week: submit hashtag (#) ideas for aggregating the discussion around "the Supreme Court battle that's just around the corner." Thanks, Peter! See more here.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. It's true: the employees of tomorrow may not have laptops or PCs. The new realm of net-enabled personal communications devices will cut down on the need for many employees to have an expensive-to-maintain PC or laptop.

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New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Tech Soup

At the time, we had a very limited selection of offers, comprised only of desktops and laptops, most of which had Pentium III processors (you get the idea). They’re urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month.