Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. Online safety quizzes can help you assess how much your audience already knows and what topics they might need more training in. Learning Resources for Children and Families. Assessments/Quizzes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it. Along the way, I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. The speed and access to the Internet has changed dramatically.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

1) Access to the internet in Mexico has grown very rapidly over the last decade. Since we provide personalized training to all our campaign fundraisers, we develop a personal relationship with all of them. How has this impacted individual giving to NGOs in Mexico? Is online giving growing rapidly as well? 40% attend fundraising events.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Develop a standard Library Giving Day pitch and train your staff and volunteers to share it. Host a tutorial about the campaign page for your team to prepare them to answer questions about giving online. Encourage staff, volunteers, and supporters to create buzz about the event.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. The Relevancy of the Internet Problem. He said that the first order of business is to address what he calls, "the relevancy of the Internet problem."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. Purchasing Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design through TechSoup made it possible to offer training in Photoshop and Premier Pro. It is now more of a community center that offers training and facilitates events.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

The library ordered 60 Dell refurbished desktop computers from TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) to provide its patrons with Internet access. The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools. The Pumpkin Church.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Some smartphones like iPhones and Dell Venue Pro phones can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi and even do Skype calls. Mobile Beacon offers handy mobile hotspot hardware devices that provide you with 4G mobile broadband Internet service. PEC has delivered 80,000 hours of training to 50,000 people since 2010 in these labs.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. According to the report, 99% of public libraries offer access to technology, and 90% report offering some sort of digital literacy skills training. " The Role of Libraries. A United Front.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We also help poor children and poor schools. We help children with school fees, computer training, and many other things. They need affordable and reliable Internet. They need training in basic computer use and knowledge. Here in Uganda and Africa in general, governments do not provide for elderly people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. The one question: How do I convince my boss and co-workers to get on the train with us? He showed examples when change comes joyfully, like weddings and having children. He talked about changes in technology and fashion. Direct the Rider.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). If you need to pop in to an Internet cafe to connect every other day or so, please do… but my advice to you as social media manager and a fellow traveler is to leave the gadgets at home. The era of winging it in social media is over.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Smartphones and Apps are changing the way we use Internet. Or your going to have a hellish old age of aches and pains from coming of age in the Age of the Internet. If your not getting this ROI, then you are not using the sites correctly and it’s time to get training. Sometimes just leave the smartphone at home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

So, I designed a training curriculum that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a process for learning from them. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

The Webinar was mostly focused on the privacy concerns and the Human Resources side of Internet/Social Media Policies. Educate: Important to train or make employees aware of the implications. C) Avoid "Friending" your boss and any of his/her teenage children, nieces, or nephews. Brownstone, Esq.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. The one question: How do I convince my boss and co-workers to get on the train with us? He showed examples when change comes joyfully, like weddings and having children. We rarely train our analytical capacity to what is working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

She uses every avenue on the World Wide Web to raise funds for Cambodian children. A one-time employee of the Boston Symphony, she plunged into the Internet in the early 1990s. She started tapping friends—and friends of friends—through her blog while adopting two Cambodian children in 2000. through the Sharing Foundation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2015

Although we know we have no lever guaranteed to eliminate poverty — it has been with us for thousands of years — for the first time, we have a tool kit and neural network via mobile and the Internet, which can be pointed at making a difference in people's lives. and the Lake County Council on Aging in Mentor, Ohio.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Doing a Data Dive to Find Data About Children and Families. You like numbers? Monday, May 1, 2017. Tuesday, May 2, 2017.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. The one question: How do I convince my boss and co-workers to get on the train with us? He showed examples when change comes joyfully, like weddings and having children. We rarely train our analytical capacity to what is working.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Ever since the advent of the internet, the retail landscape has changed drastically. Check out the virtual peer-to-peer world trivia night the Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa hosted for inspiration for your own trivia night. Wishlist drives. Virtual college + career prep workshop. Sports clinic.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

The Santa I know typically operates in the currency of choo choo trains, gumdrops, and candy canes, but this holiday season, it seems he’s branched out. One in every three American children is now considered overweight or obese. Seventeen million children live in food insecure households. Check out Pick Chow!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

And with the rise of computer and the Internet, we now have children who replace playing outside with going to the basement to play video games. He says that you feel the excess malaise if you walk into any office filled with chairs, or people sitting in conferences or training all-day long on their bottoms.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Many of these organizations operate loan programs as well as assessment and training to use the devices. Programs like this often add an array of useful freeware software to their AT computers like GCompris , Childsplay , and the Zacbrowser , which is an Internet browser specifically designed for autistic children.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

It includes names, addresses, credit cards, Social Security numbers, emails, credit history, work history, names of friends and other relationships, preferences for everything from movies to what they search for on the internet, etc. Perhaps privacy is dead. General Data Protection Regulation. appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Of the cases are Internet-related, they originated in chat rooms (as featured on the show Top Catch a Predator). So, my Ode to MySpace: 1. Nonprofits using social media… it all started on MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Professional development used to be about getting trained or acquiring a specific skill. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues. For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. Sejal Makheja, age16, founded the Elevator Project, an organization that aims to lift people out of poverty through apprenticeship, vocational training and job placement. Nonprofits and Gen Z.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

Today, we’re chatting with Brian Mucha of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. I asked Brian what the elevator pitch for Children’s Memorial was, he said “in actual elevator conversations I don't have to give much of a pitch at all. Emily for CC: How do you describe your role at CM to friends at parties?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Yes we have an accessible and attention span limited world thanks in great deal to the internet. Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Carol Cone, Founder of Carol Cone On Purpose , explains why she believes CSR is now a business priority, stating “ It is all about the transparency of the internet. The days of putting people in a room with 50 of their colleagues to go through a seminar like training hopefully are — or will so on — be over.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2015

So that brings us to an important question surrounding online engagement: How else can people take action on the Internet outside of making a donation? Download a piece of educational content (for example, How to Grow a Flourishing Neighborhood Garden, or How to Protect Your Children from Cybercriminals). Download a member directory.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City. . They lost power, heat, and light. They could not cook. This couple is my parents. After two days I was driven to distraction with worry about their ability to deal with the cold.

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