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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Kudos to NTEN for breaking the template on the typical type of events it has hosted. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster.

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Virtualization: The Revolution in Server Management and Why You Should Adopt It

NTEN

Targeting a highly technical session to an NTEN audience is kind of like cooking a gourmet meal with one entrée for 1000 randomly picked people. End users are shielded from major disruptions and IT staff are not required to make any changes to scripts or touch workstations.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience. I love the way NTEN does these sessions. An NTEN staff person interviews the expert on a conference call line, while people listen and post questions in the back channel. Live in a tool for a month, and experiment with only one tool at time.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. It is also cross platform. Apache Derby – a DBMS written entirely in Java. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. It is also cross platform. Apache Derby – a DBMS written entirely in Java. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects.