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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data – so we don’t look at it.” The skills are out there. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. from MIT in rocket science.

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The 8 Best Nonprofit Conferences for Any Fundraiser in 2023 & 2024 Copy

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Nonprofit Storytelling Conference AFP ICON and NTC are fun and educational, but they’re really big conferences! Nonprofit Marketing Summit If you handle any kind of marketing for your nonprofit, attending this conference is a great way to hone your skills! Check out our recap of AFP ICON 2023 here. Learn more about AFP ICON 2024.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The breakout session “How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery” at the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) originated from an earlier session designed by Andrea Berry, Beth Kanter, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. Finally, learners made a decision to incorporate the skills in the future.

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2010 NTC Preview: Mark Becker on Boosting Event Returns

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If you haven't heard us rant about it before, we think that understanding your data is the key skill for nonprofits in the next decade.). Get a preview in our chat together: If you're still kind of scared of pivot tables, Mark and I also talked about putting some data analysis sessions together, so stay tuned!

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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

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Every month I bring you a roundup of free technology training events that will help nonprofit staffers like you build their skills. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

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This year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington, DC, had a lot to offer for the nonprofits in attendance, and TechSoup was no exception. " and includes modeling statistical analysis. Bad for making predictions without the right data or data science skills. More from NTC. More Secrets.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, I was on a call with colleagues to plan our NTC session on training , and co-presenter Cindy Leonard said to me, “You are using ADDIE !” ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. I do this all the time. Implementation.