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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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20 reasons for associations to love Salesforce

Nimble AMS

Through Nimble AMS, associations can now move beyond traditional AMS to leverage modern technological innovation and access capabilities and features that once were available only to Fortune 500 companies. Lots of events offering learning opportunities. A strong user community is a critical to succeed with technology.

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How nonprofits can benefit from knowledge management

Socialbrite

By accumulating knowledge from the various experiences of employees and creating a platform to store it with the goal of sharing and disseminating that knowledge to people, you’ll create and enable a learning culture. . This helps foster growth through creating a learning environment in the most efficient way.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. Learning is happening outside of school and it needs to be understood better. Jenkins from MIT described something called "convergence culture." It isn't entertainment.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

Nonprofits and technology often don’t mix. It isn’t because nonprofits are fundamentally inept with technology, however. Technology projects in the nonprofit sector are simultaneously outrageously expensive and drastically underfunded. Before long, you’ll have the development assistant searching Google for “technology grants.”.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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Informal vs. Formal Learning: Creating a Blend!

Gyrus

Establish a Mentor or buddy program for employees to learn and discuss development ideas, goals with a high performer coach. Encourage employees to learn together about topics that interest them, such as latest technology or methods in their discipline. The post Informal vs. Formal Learning: Creating a Blend!

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