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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I was able to rearrange an area for viewing presentations slides and have enough space for participants to move around for full group exercises.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Incorporate the three learning styles: visual, audio, and somatic. The session slide deck is also available on Slideshare.net. This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog. Give the learners a jolt—an engaging learning activity that lasts for a brief period of time and illustrates one or more important learning points.

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Mia Hamm Delivered to Your Inbox? A New Way to Communicate in Email

NTEN

That's the idea behind GoldMail , a communications tool that marries email to voicemail, and throws in a visual slide presentation to round out the experience. Once you click it, the online mini-slideshow (Adobe Flash) with synched audio is opened in a browser window. The folks at GoldMail recently gave me an overview. Leave a comment!

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NetSquared Local Events: June 6–7, 2013

Tech Soup

In 20 slides he tells us how modern conveniences, unconventional user interfaces, and unique innovations have been used in the past and present to help people with disabilities carry on with their lives. Philadelphia, PA: Social Audio: Creating and Using Great Audio Content. Coolest Thing of the Week. Wednesday, June 5.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

15 per person/minute for audio is very tough to swallow. Even the unlimited plans (which start at $50/month, or possibly discounted) have pricing for audio, which I hadn’ t realized. It was this audio pricing that drove a stake in the heart of my ReadyTalk plan. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP. It’s $.24

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Guest Post by Laura Norvig: Friendfeed As Nonprofit Technology Water Cooler

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. NTEN holds numerous Office Hour chats , including the Water Cooler one. for the last five years or so).

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. I love the way NTEN does these sessions. An NTEN staff person interviews the expert on a conference call line, while people listen and post questions in the back channel. Yes check here ).

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