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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For those of us who also focused on training, instruction, and professional learning for nonprofits, the New Media Consortium , has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale for the past ten years. This report is not just your father’s PDF file!

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Doing Your Appeal In-house? 5 Tips to Save Time & Money

Get Fully Funded

That’s why nonprofits outsource to nonprofit mail experts as their donor file grows. And there are plenty of online resources that can teach you the basics. Save the file in its original format and in the format your design software requires for mail merge. Save both the source and merged files. That’s often.CSV.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Teach good programming practice and provide general programming and tech support (everything beyond basic IT stuff) to the rest of the team, who are experts in statistics and social science with varying degrees of techiness. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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10 Best Practices for Email Security

Tech Soup

In order to protect against these unknown threats, email attachments should be "sanitized" by converting to a different file format and removing any possible embedded threats. For instance, by converting a Word file to PDF, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed. Check Internal Emails. Train Employees.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity. an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher?

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

Too often, the raw data never gets overlooked and the public only gets access to small subsets of the scrubbed data embedded deep into PDF. The tool could have a corresponding curriculum for high school and college educators to use it as a teaching tool in the classroom. income, age, etc.). Vote for this Idea]. DoD Web Site Directory.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So you can share post notes, you can share files and since a really long time ago, like now there’s other apps that can do that, but in WhatsApp this has been from our really long time. Audios, files. What can they teach me?” You can send to PDFs. So the first thing was like, “Okay, what do they know?