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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

Kindful

Most importantly, board members should leave feeling motivated to make the changes necessary that will take your board to the next level of performance and impact so your mission can soar! No one wants to listen to a stoic facilitator pontificate behind a lectern reading lame PowerPoint slides. They don’t follow a script.

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Open Source Thinking: A Remix Wikitation of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web2.0 Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marnie Webb's excellent presentation called "Ten Ways To Change the World With Web2.0 I added a lot of visuals, I changed the examples, reorganized and tweaked the steps. You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. This is a powerpoint that Cheryl Hanback and I used to lead an N-TEN Affnity Group of technology trainers at last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. Alexandra Samuel has a great idea for using twitter - provide updates on how you've changed the world! Is Facebook becoming the default front end for nonprofits?

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

And for those that kind of balked at that, we changed the conversation. We changed it to that’s $40 a month, that’s $10 a week. We’re not going to change that. ” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. So let’s just put it on the table. I know a number of you do.

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Tips for Taking a Tech-Fueled Approach to Nonprofit Training

DNL OmniMedia

you may be hesitant to change things up by including technology. Elevated Engagement and Interactivity: At Artisan, we worked with the American Red Cross to transform a less-than-engaging PowerPoint into a self-paced e-learning course. Microlearning courses are short learning experiences hyper-focused on one specific topic.

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6 Powerful Types of Video Content Every Nonprofit Needs

Nonprofits Source

What has changed over the last few years, however, is just how important video has become. But in truth, creating explainer videos doesn’t have to be more complicated than just putting together a few slides in Powerpoint. Explainer videos are usually 30-90 seconds long, which translates into a script of around 150 to 200 words.

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