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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities. Q: What kind of folks have asked about becoming a grant writer? You will need to be flexible and patient.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Documentation. You also want to document your training. This book is a must-have for any serious trainer.

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Small Organizations and Social Media: It's What You DON'T Do That Matters

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Beth Kanter and Allison Fine have documented some of the small organizations who used social media exceedingly well during the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. See Students for a Free Tibet and Darius Goes West.). In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices.

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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there. Nonprofits have become intimately familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS).

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14LCS Idea Accelerator: Transforming Technology into Social Change

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All Idea Accelerator participants will be encouraged to continue to refine their pitches, work on their projects, and document their progress going forward on NTEN’s blog. To learn what they had to say, check out the link to the Instagram videos via the @NTENorg account. For the full list of project pitches, visit: [link].

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I gave a lightening talk at the Gates Foundation convening of the Markets for Good community on “ Between the Keyboard and the Chair “ Facilitation and Train the Trainers: I was honored to co-facilitate a leadership track at the first ever Leading Change Summit hosted by NTEN which was an amazing learning experience.

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Linux Desktop Migration

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits?

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