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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

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One approach to documenting skill requirements could be to create a matrix of skills and roles for your organization. Additional resources: Digital Skills Framework — a taxonomy of digital skills, plus further learning resources to help build skills in each area, aimed at global nonprofits.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

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The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” I could see this working well for prioritizing anything and particularly nonprofit web site requirements documents. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

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I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. I also always review Bloom's Taxonomy and have found this diagram really useful.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. It doesn’t allow commenting on documents, but it’s a great place to create a libary of resources without hosting them yourselves. VolunteerMatch has taken advantage of this tool. commenting on any item.

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

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" His introduction made me feel better and now I can learn and teach this tool too. "Delicious is easy to use, but it lacks any kind of serious documentation. He writes: I'm talking about taxonomies and tagging, and at the moment I'm planning on ending with three conclusions about the potential significance of tagging: 1.

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

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In 1998, I was teaching web strategy workshops in which I described a number of strategies for failure on the web. One of these days I need to find the resources to document this in a way that might be useful to other people. (I As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

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Getting Started Guide as a first step and review other help documents as needed. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Step 3: Teach people how to start bookmarking! As mentioned in the screencast, Del.icio.us , which was purchased by Yahoo, is a good place to start. ll want to read the Del.icio.us Findability.