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The Art of Tidying of Your Online Professional Network Connections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. But having a core isn’t enough, with online social networks there is the power of weak ties. How do you de-clutter your professional online network?

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recruit Through LinkedIn: On LinkedIn profiles, members can “signal” their interest in skilled volunteering for a nonprofit. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. " The Role of Libraries.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. And, how you click on your "friends" profiles and see their social streams. It isn't a walled garden.

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Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition

Gyrus

Gamification is a real thing now, you can play games that teach you everything you need to know, effectively measure said games and embed them directly within your learning platform. What can we do to make our training and development offerings exciting? Topic 3: Implementation – An off the cuff walkthrough.

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10 Types of eLearning Assessments for Your Courses

Forj

For your members, measuring this change allows them to achieve certifications, licenses, and accreditation to build their professional profiles. There are a variety of types of eLearning assessments that you can use to evaluate your association’s members. What are the different types of online assessment? Detail a process.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. profiles so people can find out more about who is sharing this knowledge, and see quickly what other things they have shared. VolunteerMatch has taken advantage of this tool. commenting on any item.