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8 Best Practices for a Successful 2022 Golf Fundraiser

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With 2022 approaching and plans for spring events firming up, now’s the time to consider the lessons learned from successful golf events held throughout 2020 and 2021. Here are eight best practices gleaned from successful golf fundraisers held amid challenging and uncertain times: 1) Stay Nimble. 6) Live-Score the Tournament.

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Member Round Up: Brain science in fundraising, website tips, and Do Good Data 2013!

NTEN

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! We will also discuss best practices for building a thriving healthy community.

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Microsoft OneNote Gives Dyslexic Kids a New Learning Experience

Tech Soup

This is the reality for thousands of 10-year-old dyslexic children in the French school system. The program also gives the children an organizational system that helps them automatically save their work and come back to it if they get distracted. Said one, "For SVT (science lessons) I can even draw diagrams onto the tablet PC.

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A New Habitat: Transforming Communities with Remote Work Tools

Tech Soup

My interview with Bob Lynn, the technology manager at the Omaha, Nebraska branch of Habitat for Humanity, is a lesson in the advantages of remote work tools. When Bob arrived, Habitat was using two different phone systems and outdated technologies, resulting in constant "busy" signals when families called. spanhidden.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Here are my top ten lessons from The Tech Virtual experiment with regard to design exhibits with a community of amateurs.

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

John Russick of the Chicago History Center runs the annual label contest for the American Alliance of Museums , and those entries are always worth reading. I think the backlash against “one-offs” should actually be a backlash against leaders who didn’t learn lessons from those experiments and use those lessons in their future experiments.

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

Paynter’s talk, "The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community," examined how to build and sustain online communities by relating some of the lessons he has learned through managing the Care2 community since its inception. May’s Online Community Meetup featured Randy Paynter, co-founder of Care2.