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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

By now, most of us have heard about the lawyer who couldn’t turn his cat “filter” off on a Zoom court hearing, so that he appeared in virtual court as a cat. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. Moving to Zoom, the simplest way to adapt would be screenshare my slide deck.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more. Explore top nonprofit solutions for virtual and in-person events. Zoom Platform overview: Zoom is a virtual meeting platform that allows teams to collaborate and gather even when working remotely. Nonprofits can access a 50% discount via Techsoup.

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July Is Web Conferencing Month

Tech Soup

With the ability to present slides, share links and desktops, conduct polls, and create and store meeting notes, virtual meetings can be more productive than meetings in person. Audio, video, application, and screen sharing (jpg, ppt, pdf, flash, mp3, doc). Webcam sharing (multiple users). Attendee polling and statistics.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. Now, with over a year of virtual meetings under our belts and the future of office-centric work for all being unclear, hybrid meetings are likely to become our new normal. Give your remote participants a seat at the table.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English.

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Why Google Might Be the Answer to Your Problems

NonProfit Hub

Google gives you virtually unlimited storage, easy sharing and compatibility with tons of apps and websites all for FREE. Pretty much every Google Drive platform (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar) allows you to work on documents simultaneously with your coworkers. And why wouldn’t it be? Collaboration. Compatibility. PowerPoint (.pptx).

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Slides are available in the NpTech group in Slideshare. In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us. Then do the next best thing, take a virtual trip to Bali. There's a good case study of LinkedIn.

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