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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

So do everything you can to recognize the attendees as they join: say their names, ask them to share where they’re from, have an interesting icebreaker , play music—whatever makes them feel welcomed and human, not just a square box there to receive a lecture. . One of the best tips is to change what you’re doing every 10 minutes.

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Durff's Slide Show: Why Integrate Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My twitter friend Durff asked for feedback on her slide show. The title slide - "Teaching to Transform" should be a second or two longer and then hit me a visual that shows "transformation" -- maybe a bored student and then an engaged one. The rhytm of music is making me want more jump cuts and faster pace.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

First, I introduce a staff member who speaks for 20 minutes about their work, how it has changed since the pandemic, and what they are learning. The last 15 minutes of the meeting are set aside for me to interact with the volunteers and update them on operational changes or news from other parts of the Smithsonian.

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations.

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Networked Nonprofits Avoid Scarcity Thinking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Watch for the link to the recording and slides – I’ll share it in a more detailed post I have for Friday, but I wanted to capture two ideas that struck me. The black smoke monster on LOST was a stream of black smoke that would appear with scary background music and people would run screaming away from it.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Next I zipped over to the Global Changemakers event, where six teenagers from around the world presented their projects to change the world, using the PechaKucha format (20 slides timed over five minutes). I also got to talk to Pablos because he knew Brian, and ask about ideas that might be worth licensing for social purposes.

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How to choose a CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The lesson here, I think, is that CRM, even for large organizations, is changing rapidly, and the days are numbered where systems that are expensive, proprietary, and closed rule. After the webinar, I’ll be putting the slides up in varied places, and NTEN will have a recording of the webinar. { I’m glad to see that.