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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. What if we could scan once, proofread the resulting scan, and share that ebook with tens of thousands of eager readers? And stuck was the operative word: I stayed in that role for seven years.

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Ten Books for Every Nonprofit Professional’s Reading List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are looking for more recommendations, check out Book Authority’s list of 52 Best Nonprofit eBooks of All Time ( The Happy Healthy Nonprofit is #9). This year was honored to be the keynote for the Washington State Nonprofit Conference and teach a workshop at University of Washington.

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MagnaFlyer: New Tech Helping People with Central Vision Loss

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is a complex biological task that’s difficult to self-teach: it requires the eyes and the brain to learn a new method of seeing, which means acquiring new habits and skills. Of course, text is pretty universally accessible on computers, so you can read text from all sorts of sources (like word processor documents, PDFs, web pages).

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

Bloomerang

There really isn’t a clear definition that is universally accepted in the sector. ” Big Duck has a free ebook that will help you with this. You should practice what you teach, which is, you know, be open and learn and grow. And the chapter in my book about teams we actually adapted into a free ebook.

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[VIDEO] Be More Productive, Powerful & Persuasive with Board, Staff & Donors

Bloomerang

And in my work, when I started teaching and training people influence, I realized, “If I can teach you influence, marketing is so much easier. One is this ebook. A lot of the concepts that I’m sharing with you today are in this ebook. The universe is limitless. Fundraising is so much easier.

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

Museum 2.0

It’s not every day that a science center releases an ebook about wrongful conviction in rape and murder cases. This interview is not really about an ebook. My hope is that we can find a way to get it into the science and humanities classrooms in colleges and universities, and I am working on that.

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