Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. These touches will only increase the drive to accomplish the entirety of the learning exercise, as well as aid in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It What would be an alternative? We can no longer afford to get distracted by the volume of information flying past us. Instead, content curation helps us keep focused. Content'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

Readers will quickly become adept at : Leveraging all the lean resources around them , from their own skill set, local community, and personal circles to professional networks, online resources, and technology tools. Meditate, pray, relax, exercise, hike, laugh or whatever brings you peace. Smile and talk to strangers that you meet.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 24, 2013

Alternatively, reducing risk exposure, enhancing brand equity, or motivating and retaining staff can be “make or break” considerations for key internal stakeholders. Procurement Technology Board Budgeting Business Case IT planning ROI Strategy technology' Don’t forget the intangible benefits of your proposal.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

The resultant traffic and chaos from commuters attempting alternate methods of transportation including ferries, buses, and carpooling likely resulted in something of a local holiday – as highways turned into parking lots. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

I’m often asked to help nonprofits define a technology roadmap – that is, figuring out how to migrate their business from a legacy system(s) to a new solution(s) and beyond. ” In response, technology directors and CIOs ask, “I know we can customize this, but is it a good idea?” significant cost savings).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

You can (and there is - the unparalleled Museum of Jurassic Technology ). In the Museum of Jurassic Technology, you feel as though you are in a funhouse. It's available, but it's not the point of the whole exercise. At the end of his interview, Seb wondered if you could have "an entire museum" like this. It's not self-important.

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JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. Alternatively, this could be an open-ended assessment in which the learner is asked to write about their conclusions. Matching, labeling, and sorting exercises involve organizing elements on a page, similar to sequencing assessments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. I tried to picture an alternative with AleiaBrown and Adrianne Russell ’s # MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and LaTonya S. And, well, the whole exercise was depressing.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It’s also very easy for just about anyone to put on due to modern portable karaoke technology. One huge benefit of technology is that these are no longer cash-only events. Exercise Class You can hold a regular exercise class with a volunteer instructor—like a boot camp-style fitness program—for long-term fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

This word cloud is from a virtual workshop I facilitated asking participants what the barriers to effective virtual meetings are: technology, engagement, connectivity, and participation. Virtual meetings may have some specific norms, for example: We will use the technology that most accessible to everyone on our team.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Who would set their sights on these mundane aspects of human experience, things that recede into the background, given the glitzy alternative of commercial games? And Wii Fit is the new hot thing--a game to help you exercise. Serious games offer one example. Supposedly it improves your brain function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Virtual meetings may have some specific norms, for example: We will use the technology that most accessible to everyone on our team. Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues. See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. The alternative would be to use 1.1

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Uber – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service. Their team of journalists pull together a politics and technology news feed that condenses the essential information of the day and makes easy to look at on the small screen. Sidecar – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service (like Uber ).

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. Something like an expensive gift certificate or new piece of technology are great ideas.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2008

I'll be in Philadelphia October 17-21 for the ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual conference. sessions come from all walks of museum/technology, this year we're taking a new approach. Finally, on Monday, I'll be hosting an informal meetup about the Superstruct alternate reality game.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We had surveyed an alternative high school and half the kids had said, “There’s no adult that I can talk to but I need to talk to somebody.” I think it’s a good exercise to pick up a strategic plan and look at it quarterly or annually. That was one really fun example. . Julie: Yes. I actually love.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I think this podcast is a mini success right here, you know, that women and people of color are using technology to -- and social justice activists of all genders and races -- are using technology to get our stories out there. Look at us, how creative we are.

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