Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking with My PC program manager Todd Watts on the TechSoup webinar, Free Windows 7 Curriculum: Basic Computer Training at Your Library or Nonprofit. You can now view the archive of this event , as well as the presentation slides, audio, and links now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. It’s $.24

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2009

A lot of organizations we work with are increasingly using web conferencing to have more productive meetings with staff in the field, share knowledge across projects and programs, and conduct training. Don't forget clear instructions about audio, whether using teleconference or VOIP. Below are some helpful tips. During the meeting.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

PowerPoint 2013 can be used to create image slides and animations like nonprofit Trickle Up did. ReadyTalk : ReadyTalk’s web and audio conferencing tools let you stay connected with your digital storytelling team and supporters. You can also use Visio 2013 to make dynamic diagrams and charts for your story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of 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. Can you add audio with slideshare? (

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Dave Witzel was a participant in the workshop and thought the game could be adapted as apart of training on social media at the staff retreat. The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice?

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Forj

MAY 13, 2021

Use closed captioning alongside audio elements. While the show still went on, many of these events were riddled with growing pains in the form of technical difficulties, whether registrants struggling to navigate the event, buffering video, or splotchy audio. Compare your virtual event platform against the WCAG standards.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

During this phase: Check audio to make sure speakers sound loud and clear. If multiple people are speaking in the same session, ensure they all wear headphones to prevent audio feedback. Test any slides your remote speakers plan to present, as sometimes the computer or browser will require updates to security permissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

We used some of the ideas presented here as a jumping off point for small group sharing on how to make trainings more interactive. Embed Powerpoint Slides as Flash Presentations in your Blog without Spending a Dime , I just had to try it. The flickr set has notes and pointers to other resources if you are interested in the content.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

We've provided training on how to interview subjects, tips for photographing and video-recording, as well as best practices for writing strong stories that encourage and elicit action. Empower stakeholders, provide training and writing guidelines, as well as incentives for their contributions. My presentation slides are below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. In addition to the main screen in your conference room, you can also set up laptops with their video and audio at a seat at the table.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. All of the Nonprofit Boot Camp sessions will be recorded and available on the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcast. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting). About $270 on Amazon.com. About $270 on Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. Do not multi-task (do other work) during the meeting.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

This post recaps these sessions, provides my slides, and shares what I learned at the conference. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. Download my slides here. Download our slides here.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. If you have the slides already, I’m going to ask you to try to not read along because you can only either listen or read, not both.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

is an AI meeting assistant that automatically records audio, transcribes spoken words into text, captures slides, and generates summaries – all in real-time. Here’s a few things to be aware of: Potential biases – AI algorithms are only as good as the data that is used to train them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. " Nancy White's slides from TALO and some audio from Nothern s about the new rules for online communities. Yikes, there are no rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. Do not multi-task (do other work) during the meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Photos of the slides. " Then he takes us to where they are now - after seven years of doing, reflection, and improving this project - he lays out the main elements of the project: Skill training. I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As always, just a couple of quick housekeeping items, I want to let everyone know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording and the slides later on today. Because a couple of things, I do a lot of these trainings throughout the year and two thoughts I have before we start. Here we go.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These platforms are what elevate a static PDF or slide show presentation to greater heights, creating courses that are engaging, interactive, and full of multimedia elements. Essentially, these platforms are used by those with the need for and resources to invest in comprehensive training programs to train a large audience of learners.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and I’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on this afternoon. I’ve already sent out the slides, but I will resend them later on today. You’ll get the recording from me later on today.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

It's becoming this new tool that people are expected to be able to do, and I don't know that we're really trained for it at this point. Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows. I agree, and that's some of the things that I'm learning.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Micro content has trained us to prefer our information bite-sized rather than super-sized. Colleen Fahey’s article, How Audio Enhances Your Brand Content: Find Your Signature Sound , provides guidance for how your nonprofit can strengthen its voice. bonus: she includes video and slides}. You should.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, I just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on today. You should already have the slides. She’s got a really cool training course called Social Media for Social Good, her academy there.

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