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Tips for Hosting a Virtual Peer-to-Peer Event

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Just make sure your language emphasizes the safety and wellbeing of attendees in a positive way. When you’re done livestreaming on Facebook, your video will still be available to view for those who missed your live broadcast. Online shopping makes for a great alternative to a typical supply drive.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many of your supporters are becoming overwhelmed with tweets, status updates, emails, texts, and print and broadcast media and because of that it’s getting more difficult for your “Thank You” message to stand out from all the noise. Since I have returned from Asia I have cut my consumption of broadcast news by 95%.

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Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap

Gyrus

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. Try not to overdo it, but do not be afraid to use splashes of color, integrated music, modern conversational language/dialogue, humorous components, and narrative. Also, please try not to make them boring. Interactive.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

During the selected weekly program -- called Heka Heka Vijijini, which means "busy busy in the village" in Kiswahili -- broadcasters announced an upcoming competition that asked for “the best story of how you’re using the knowledge you’ve gained from this radio program in your life.” Photo: Bart Sullivan . You can nest menus.

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M+R’s Guide to A More Inclusive Media Relations Approach

M+R

To back up: Many communications professionals have long viewed the traditional mainstream outlets (such as The Washington Post, New York Times , and the main broadcast news networks) as the gold standard, regardless of who their work impacts or who their audiences are. Audiences & Outlets What are the overarching goals for this project?

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

This part of the stack includes web servers (Apache), database engines (MySQL, Postgres), version control (SVN, Git), programming languages and frameworks (PHP, Ruby, Zend). . The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). .

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The program was presented at the Texting for Health Conference this past February, and hopes to provide the tool in multiple languages as well! *. Objective : Provide an alternative route to collect donations for those not wanting to donate online via credit or debit card. As a result, over 44,000 student applied in 1.5

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