Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

While there are a good number of tech-savvy hipsters out there that understand terms like “ Static Web ”, “ Dynamic Content ”, “ User-Generated ”, “ Cloud Computing ”, and “ Semantic Web ”, the majority of nonprofits don’t talk or understand such tech speak. Smartphone Apps enable content to be published and shared easily while on the go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera.

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Gyrus

APRIL 26, 2016

Mobile training not only offers learning on-the-go, but also allows learners to gain an instant access to information whenever and wherever they need it. However, there is often a misunderstanding on mobile learning capabilities and its usage for corporate learning and training. Mobile Learning Signifies Learning on the Move.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. Here’s an interview with the translators about best practices for facilitating training activities that need to be translated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Steve did a content delivery presentation right before and then brought me in via audio as a “cameo appearance.&# We didn’t have enough bandwidth for video, so he projected my photo. I thought we could use the chat back channel but since there was only laptop in the room we needed another system for backchannel communication.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

Nearly all museums and historical sites need Adobe Creative Cloud for developing compelling exhibits and educational web content. You can use Autodesk software to design buildings or additions, interiors, exhibits, and entertainment content. Create Striking Exhibits with Adobe and Autodesk Design Tools. Explore Autodesk tools.

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

Scheduling that same instructor, the classroom, the projector he/she is using, a laser pointer and a shared laptop… priceless. The ability to generate content directly into the LMS not only exists but is being highlighted on this blog post. An API specifies how software components should interact.” Assessment Creation Tool.

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

This goes for laptops as well as any servers or databases. Be aware of social engineering risks and train staff on how to avoid them. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Backup critical data using whatever method is approved for your organization. Want more tips like this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. 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. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Here are some tips for finding and managing that user data and content. This security can depend on the nature of the data you’re working with, but this quick training covers different ways to control access. If the Salesforce Mobile SDK is utilized, it can work together with this as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The physical space is an open lab space, with lots of white boards, fast wifi, turkish coffee, and lots of geeks sitting on bean bag chairs or at tables with laptops on their laps coding and hacking on their projects. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab. It is also fun to re-mix presentations for an audience outside of the US.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 17, 2017

Basically, webinars are detailed, hands-on video training from an acknowledged expert, engagingly delivered to you in the comfort of your own home or office space. Just make sure to bring your laptop. Plenty of good content to check back for each month. With webinars, you can do just that. The Best Free Nonprofit Webinars.

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Care2

JUNE 27, 2013

For example, someone in your network who you have granted permission to see your content can easily take a screenshot of something that you did not intend for public eyes. It’s inevitable that one day you will leave your iPhone, iPad, or laptop either at a client’s office, a bar, CVS, the train, etc.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2015

The Benefits of Planning and Training. To get staff up-to-speed with Office 365, they organized multiple small group training sessions and plan to hold more soon. Staff members contacted a third-party consultant to help out with the migration for the staff's laptops and mobile phones. "It's just phenomenal."

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Turn your employees into content creators. SeenIt enables organizations to truly scale the way they produce video by engaging their own employees to become their content creators and brand ambassadors. H osting a virtual or local day of service?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We can write engaging content for your websites, and our ready-made templates mean that all you need to do is add the final touches to make the website your own. Some businesses may only want a website and our reliable hosting, others might want content creation, social media setups, and detailed analytics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Nonprofit social media managers are bombarded with depressing content. Nonprofit social media managers live in a social bubble of depressing tweets and posts and while we’ve chosen this profession, the toll of such content on your mental health and general outlook on humankind is real and needs to be managed.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Donating computers and laptops to school districts is strengthened by working with nonprofits such as Comp-U-Dopt to refurbish electronics and purchase new equipment for families in need. Qualified teachers are also struggling to deliver content virtually with little to no technological training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Did you clutter your email with event news about partner organizations and other irrelevant content? If you’re guilty of throwing something together and clicking “send” just so you can mark it off your list, you’re probably sending boring emails… which trains your audience to stop reading them! Did you ASK for money ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Do you think they’ll go grab their laptop or switch to their desktop? Your categories might include food, medical needs (like spay and neuter services), training (which can range from potty pads to obedience classes), comfort (blankets and dog beds), and enrichment (which includes everything from toys to leashes and harnesses for walks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. I think this style is a better match for social media as well as social media training. We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops). I said yes. Somethings to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. blame the internet! :-).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Carlos Bergfeld , product content manager, told me, "TechSoup provided its employees with password security training that suggested we create a secure password 'root' to use for all login credentials. " "I also use some free browser add-on applications on my laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

I ended up attending "Screencasting: The latest in technology training," lead by Beth Kanter. Since we will use screencasting for much of the training materials and the "rollout" of the new Commons, the suggestions offered in this workshop--e.g. There's some execellent content there. no more than 3.5

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” With this in mind, and my trusty laptop timer working as a moderator, I will now begin. Systems are capable of not only organizing Instructor-Led Training (ILT), but they now house E-Learnings, Gamification, Mobile Learnings, and alternative learning objects. Topic 2: Where is the LMS Industry Going?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. So this is definitely a tool to watch. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Observations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

Browse our selection of refurbished laptops, desktops, and monitors. In the last year we’ve produced a ton of great content to help you plan and execute your fundraising campaigns like a boss. This new, mobile-friendly operating system brings back the Start button, offers better searching, and can boot directly to the desktop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

If an email displays poorly on a mobile device, no matter how good the content is, it’s likely to be deleted in under three seconds and as many as 15% of users will even unsubscribe , instead of delete. The time invested in ramping up your campaigns and the content strategy behind it is well worth it in terms of return on investment (ROI).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

They should be able to see the faces of in-person attendees, shared presentations, physical documents handed out, content created during the meeting on whiteboards or flipcharts, etc. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops). 6: Give Remote Participants A Seat at the Table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As someone who has been a trainer for all these years, one of the things we're trained to do is "read the room." You watch for body language to indicate the level of engagement and whether or not people agree or disagree and encourage them to participate. It’s like a new set of antennae."

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