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Grantseeking Basics: Developing a Grant Project

Tech Soup

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. One tip I could have used early on was to plan and design the grant project before writing up a query letter or proposal. based on the types of projects they fund.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Tim O'Reilly (who has been hugely helpful to us and especially Bookshare.org) published an op-ed in the New York Times about the Authors Guild suing Google's Library project. Against this backdrop, the recent Authors Guild suit against the Google Library Project is poignantly wrongheaded."

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What Are Best Practices for Managing Teleworkers?

Tech Soup

As part of celebrating Earth Day throughout the month of April, we'll be featuring posts about how to make your nonprofit or library more environmentally friendly. time spent on a project. Group projects. Create collaborative group projects so that remote employees. organizational processes. telework programs.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Open source projects are now prominent players in middle layer.

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10 Types of eLearning Assessments for Your Courses

Forj

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. They could even complete a ratings-based assessment before and after learning a topic, to test how their opinions, attitudes, or mindsets surrounding the topic changed. Uploading existing questions and authoring new ones.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What do libraries look like in the future? Funded a project to work with state of Michigan - requirement for high school graduation is that all students have an online learning experience. Interesting projects that are not the historical type. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. Microsoft Corporation.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation.

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