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All You Need To Know About Virtual Conferences

AccelEvents

Build and design an event webpage. . An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. This content can be made available to your team and attendees for future reference. This will also be your ticketing site. .

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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The Answer to Sean's Question: Tools for Effective Listening

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've never been referred to as an comic strip character. (It These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post).

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

NTEN

In addition, the TechSoup Learning Center has a great resource designed to help nonprofits conduct needs assessments. Make sure you clearly communicate your needs in the job description, screen applications according to the identified criteria, and base your interview questions and reference checking around the required competencies.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. I'd like to see people have a variety of purposefully designed collaborative learning experiences so they are prepared to work collaboratively in professional life.

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Mapping Experiences: Rethinking Wayfinding in Museums

Museum 2.0

There was a recent post on the ASTC listserv from a museum planning to revamp their wayfinding system. Most museums aggregate their content, either by category (Impressionism, Dinosaurs, World War II) or by abstraction (3rd Floor, Green Wing) and the maps reference these aggregate names. Tags: design. million nodes.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" The article refers to the Dunbar number - 150 - the ceiling on the number of personal contacts a human has the capacity to maintain. This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read. The article says that new research suggests that social networking sites will help humans surpass this limit.