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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. Maybe it imparts knowledge, but people can’t transfer that to a real-life environment.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. In the social period, we began exploring the network – mapping it, evaluating it, testing it.

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Can Networks Have Social Impact?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. It helps a network get more specific with the work flow which maps to different online collaboration and social media tools. This slide show demonstrates the powerful outcomes that a social network offers and how/why relationships are important.

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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Playing games has pushed into the primetime market, and with that statement, Chris Swain , CEO and Founder of Talkie, displayed a slide that showed weekly audience numbers for the wildly popular social game, FarmVille, towering above primetime television shows such as Dancing with the Stars , NBC Sunday Night Football and CSI.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. If you have the slides already, I’m going to ask you to try to not read along because you can only either listen or read, not both.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

As always, just a couple of quick housekeeping items, I want to let everyone know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording and the slides later on today. And so this slide here is just to remind us that we’ve all worked with community stakeholders before. Steven: I definitely will. .