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Training on your new database

Robert Weiner

Train end users on a sample database, not production data. The sample database should be configured with your own codes, menus, security settings, and any customizations. If you're training a lot of people, try to train in a classroom setting so everyone hears the same thing. Train end users just before going live.

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Nail Online Giving With These Tips and Tools

Get Fully Funded

DonorsChoose is a cool platform for classrooms where teachers post a project and people commit to giving. When a project reaches its funding goal, the company purchases all related classroom materials and ships the items to the school. Non-profits can create and customize branded donation and event registration pages.

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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

The Council on Nonprofits has samples to review. Completing a self-assessment helps the board look internally at the board itself, reflect on both individual and shared responsibilities of its members, increase teamwork, clarify board and staff expectations, and help determine areas of responsibility that need attention.

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2009 DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

The challenge runs throughout October, with hundreds of bloggers and Twitterers rallying to support classroom requests on DonorsChoose.org. All told, they raised over $275,000 for classroom projects reaching 67,000 students in low-income neighborhoods around the country.

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New on SSIR: A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

Create Digital Classrooms – Education programs—schools, after-school programs, and youth-focused nonprofit—can work with established collections in the classroom; and students can document the area around their school to create their own collections, and potentially trade collections with other schools.

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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. Meantime, if you’re not familiar with DonorsChoose, the idea is a simple one: It’s a site where public school teachers could post what materials they were lacking in the classroom. The cool part?

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.” .

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