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How To Fix The 12 Most Common Presentation Mistakes

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Questions: So many presenters default to PowerPoint as their presentation tool. What are the pros and cons of using PowerPoint? They are not designed to be a crutch to help get a person through their content. Start by addressing the mistakes that are most pertinent for that situation and focus on improving in those areas.

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Announcing the 2021 Open Data Project!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The anonymized survey data can be easily downloaded into Excel, PowerPoint, a PDF, and/or Word. The Open Data Project is basic in design, but significantly more useful to the global NGO sector. Please help promote the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey in your country. How to Use the Data. Sponsor the Open Data Project.

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5 Favorite Features, Tips, and Shortcuts for Microsoft's PowerPoint

Tech Soup

Following up on a post from last month that featured my favorite features, tips, and shortcuts for the oft-used Word program, I wanted to do the same with another tool in the Office Suite: PowerPoint. Please feel free to share your tips, shortcuts , and favorite features in PowerPoint in this discussion in our forums. read more.

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. For this exercise, it would have been helpful to have people in each group with some prior real life experience designing an ROI study. What are your tips and tricks for designing and delivering effective webinars?

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Set 2023 Up for Success: 7 Easy Upgrades to Make

The MatrixFiles

This could be a template for your: newsletter, PowerPoint presentations, meeting pages, PDFs, press releases, or social media posts. Little tweaks like this can make a big difference, and good designers should be able to do this work fairly quickly. Refresh the most visited page on your website.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.