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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

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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. Using adult learning principles in technology trainings — an NTEN Digital Inclusion Fellow shares a few key lessons about how to (and how not to) train adults.

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

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Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. If you haven't already, you'll have to create an NTEN Affinity Group Profile.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. Audience Research.

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Building and Supporting Your Drupal Website: In-House, Outsourced, or Both?

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Do you have a team with some expertise in information architecture, taxonomy, and usability, a team with capacity to outline website specifications clearly? No one model is best; like everything, it should be evaluated on a case by case basis. Tip 2: Assess your personnel - present and future.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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Anyway, you already asked yourself what roles were needed when you did your strategic evaluation, right? Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing! Further reading: http :// www. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community.

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

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The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. Each equation, and each program, is continually evaluated and improved. Foundation Center has been working on automating much of this work.

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