Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

But surprisingly few nonprofits are talking about open data. The government is even planning to appoint a chief data officer to manage the effort, earning praise from the Open Data Institute as the most advanced government in the field of open data. According to the Open Data Institute, open data saved Canada $3.2

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2022

As we take on new projects and clients, we have a number of openings to fill. To answer these questions, let’s hear directly from our incredible Tech Architect team. You can also find out more about what it’s like to work at Forum One and our Tech Team before applying today ! Among them is the role of the Technical Architect.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

billion WhatsApp users exchanging more than 60 billion messages every day and that unlike other media, it has an astounding 99% open rate and 40%+ response rate. The post 4 Ways to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Digital Storytelling with WhatsApp appeared first on Nonprofit Tech for Good. Recent data indicates that there are in excess of 1.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2022

We are here to educate, facilitate and communicate,” he said. “We Opening the ability to receive stock donations provides another avenue for donors to be able to support the organizations that are meaningful to them in a contactless way. We work with nonprofits to educate donors on the benefits of donating appreciated stock.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

Opens new window. Through their own reforestation, regeneration, and restoration projects around the world as well as the empowerment of others with the same goal, Plant-for-the-Planet aims to facilitate bringing back 1 trillion trees, helping us keep global warming below 2°C. Opens new window. Opens new window.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. I have never had a better tech support experience in the CRM industry. Keep your communications open with your community.”. Continue to ask for donor support.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2022

Plus, virtual offerings remove airfare and hotel costs from the equation, opening up the opportunity to attend for more people who previously may have faced financial or geographic barriers—a win-win for event organizers and guests alike. The key is finding a tech partner that can integrate live and virtual experiences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

In other words, I don’t avoid social media, I use it a lot, and I actively facilitate my clients use of social media integration with their web presence. ( How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? And I use hashtags in blog entries! ). But I’m still bored silly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Research shows that staff often resist using multiple services, often because they don’t want to open one more window on their computer or launch one more app on their mobile device. Many times we need to use technology to facilitate the meeting, whether it is bring a remote worker or view a presentation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In a departure from its usual format, the August session of the San Francisco Online Community Meetup was an open forum. The talk, facilitated by online community veteran Scott Moore , delved into various facets of online community. The topic questions and responses are outlined below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. They will also spend time with and encourage girls from local schools to explore tech careers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. The Art of Good Openings and Closings. Think of “House of Cards” when Francis turns to the camera and shares the dialogue inside his mind.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This pandemic has forced businesses to work remotely, if possible, and to jump through additional hoops if allowed to remain open in a physical location. . Live chat can facilitate a presentation, a Q&A, a general chat, or polling questions. . The healthcare industry and the medical industry have been on its own rollercoaster.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region. There is some great insight into the need for the Open Data movement to be more inclusive as well as explanations of why big data gathering should be more strategic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

I don’t usually title my tech blog entries with quite that sort of title, but that’s how I feel after spending 3 days with one of the most fabulous groups of people I have had the honor of spending time with in recent memory. Sessions I went to included: Open Source Ecosystems. Tech Cooperatives. Business Models.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2014

Instead of a traditional conference with concurrent sessions and a line-up of speakers, Leading Change Summit (LCS) is designed around the idea that the best ideas can emerge through facilitated workshops and driven conversations. Digital Strategy future of tech impact leadership leading change summit' Is LCS for you?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

From a Tech Club organizer, to NTEN Lab facilitator, to NTC speaker, to Editorial Committee member, he has demonstrated his commitment for nearly a decade. My first introduction to the NTEN Community was through the 501 Tech Club here in Portland, PDXTech4Good. What about lessons learned from being a former Tech Club leader?

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 15, 2021

Hybrid events can be a live-streamed product reveal, which is very common in the tech world, or it can be a trade show with an in-person event and an exclusive online app. . This allows tech junkies, media, and industry experts to watch live from anywhere in the world. . Keep yourself open to changes. Examples of Hybrid Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Give A Unique Welcome To New Employees: Tech companies in Silicon Valley have made onboarding an artform , for example at Google new employees are called Nooglers and given a prop beanie to wear. Having a workplace flexibility policy can facilitate it.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

After the session, she asked to reuse the game locally and I asked her to just let me know how it went: I recently facilitated a day long meeting with a group of 7 different community media centers in California. I design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C BlocPower , a Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund portfolio company, is a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that is rapidly greening and electrifying buildings in America’s urban core.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

If you are responsible for planning and facilitating virtual meetings, here are some tips that’ll help you make your meetings more productive. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. Appoint a facilitator to function as traffic cop, spelling out the rules of engagement and calling on people when it’s their turn.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. For one client, I am their technology go-to person, since they are really small, and have no tech staff. I answer all of their tech questions, and solve pretty much all of their tech problems (mostly by helping them figure out who they should call.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. The opening video sequence shows how AI will impact the everyday work flow of business professionals. You can watch the keynote on YouTube. Hat Tip to Tal Frankfurt). ?.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This pandemic has forced businesses to work remotely, if possible, and to jump through additional hoops if allowed to remain open in a physical location. . Live chat can facilitate a presentation, a Q&A, a general chat, or polling questions. . The healthcare industry and the medical industry have been on its own rollercoaster.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

We’ll be exhibiting at the Science Fair, running a nonprofit idea generator for our Caravan Studios project, and hosting an open lounge where you can come by for tech support, advice on Office 365, and to hear some of our partners talk about their exciting new projects for the sector. Several of us from TechSoup will be there.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

We currently have 3 staff positions and 1 contract position open. S/he will also support NTEN’s 501 Tech Club program by coordinating with 501 Tech Club leaders across North America. NTEN is looking for technology, community, and event lovers to join us in our work serving the nonprofit technology sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

Of course, people like me, who make our living building websites, and helping facilitate the web presences of organizations, look askance at tools like this, so take what I say with a grain of salt. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. The problem I have is that they hid it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. There are both proprietary and open source LMS. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Mapping can be done with low tech tools (sticky notes and markers) or you can use simple tools to map your own network on social media platforms or software that helps you illustrate it.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The knowledge derived from the BRIDGE project will also facilitate more strategic decision making by those who are working to create positive change across the globe. Today's launch is an important milestone for the world of transparency, impact measurement, philanthropy, and nonprofit and social enterprise performance.

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