Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2010

Our webinar defined the concept of a “social media listening dashboard&# , describing how nonprofits can use free and low-cost services to track and stay notified about online communications that relate to their work and brand. Presentation slides. If you missed the webinar, that’s okay! Audio recording. Leave a comment!

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

As SA’s Volunteer Coordinator, I was fortunate to keep working full-time from home, where I ramped up a new way of volunteering remotely, finding additional volunteers, and training a mixed group of new and longtime volunteers to help host these programs on Zoom. This addition is a slide show of photographs that the volunteers email to me.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2011

Back in June, you may have seen a post from Stephanie Gerding on the TechSoup for Libraries blog about My PC , a free Windows 7 curriculum. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking with My PC program manager Todd Watts on the TechSoup webinar, Free Windows 7 Curriculum: Basic Computer Training at Your Library or Nonprofit.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Cost: Tickets are free! While general admission is free, attendees would need to purchase a VIP Pass in order to obtain session recordings. Cost: General admission is free. The first was a free general admission ticket that included access to all live keynotes, sessions, workshops, and networking events.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A whopping 96% of these people are doing it themselves and only a handful of them may have any training as a fundraising copywriter.”. Check out the free Bloomerang Comms Audit tool! Want help that is 100% free? My heart was racing for everyone there. I worried: “Could they use help writing their appeal ? Be donor-centric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Free-wheeling. see above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Tags: training materials. The Topics.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To accommodate latency issues and provide a shorter, tailored experience for virtual guests, Celebrity Waiters created two entirely separate slide decks for each audience. Choose technology to suit your needs, and leave ample time for training and testing. Option 2: Create a separate video stream for virtual guests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here's one of her training presentations. Beth Dunn's " Money for Nothing, IT for Free " has a post about the importance of considering the total cost of a technology investment even if it is free and some advice for getting started. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. Download this free recording from Blackbauds webinar about setting your goals for #GivingTuesday. Here''s what they said.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

She’s worked in development offices of all sizes and has recently put her years of experience and training down on paper in The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising. I’m also excited to announce that I’ll be giving away a copy of the book for free to a reader! Free Book Giveaway. Standing far away, I had no idea what people needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

This past week, Google announced that it would close Google Reader on July 1st. Nonprofit technology colleague Nancy Schwartz shared that link and it prompted a lot of angst for many who had grown dependent on this free software. I’ve flirted with this, but have not written about it regularly – so expect more of that from me.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Online safety quizzes can help you assess how much your audience already knows and what topics they might need more training in. Slide Decks and Activities. Here are a few slide decks and activities to get inspired by: The slide deck Austin Stroud uses for teaching online safety at the Monroe County Public Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? Improve staff expertise: It used to be that we could be trained to do our work and we wouldn’t need to update and synthesize new information on a daily basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. Some of these tools are free, some are paid, and some offer both free and paid versions. take advantage of free software trials. And we took away some ideas that we thought many nonprofits and government agencies should consider.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Pricing Strategy for Training Courses: Subscription vs. One-Time Fee. Perhaps a fully free model or a per-course model? Developing a new eLearning course isn’t as simple as one employee sitting at a computer, authoring a PowerPoint slide, and calling it a day. Easily replaced with free or lower-cost alternatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Presentations and instructional content are an important part of my content strategy and the lifeblood of my work as a trainer. Slideshare helps set my work free and share it with nonprofit professionals all over the world. We set up a group in Slideshare to share and remix our slide presentations. (4) 6) Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. "You are free to use the content, just me credit and/or a link." It turns to surprise when they see what is there and it free for the using. It gets your work out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

These are all free tools that do not require technical knowledge to install or use, although you have to spend some time learning how they work. Helps me prepare for trainings/consulting Program Ideas. There are a couple of bonus slides in the deck about how to use metrics for podcasts and video. Engagement. Feedburner.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Some of the examples and recommendations from this month’s chat included: UN Food&Ag Org (FAO) has done a great job with their Share Fairs – sharing the discussions and training on and offline. At the end of every presentation, they put up a slide where students can either 1) join their cause on Facebook or 2) text them to sign up.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Their live online event was hidden behind a paywall, but now all video sessions and downloadable slides are available for free after filling out registration for their Pulse Everywhere content, creating long-term engagement. . Key Takeaways: LiveWorx allowed free attendance to boost engagement, and it worked. Microsoft Build.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. But most importantly, I know a lot of you have already done this, but please feel free to chat in during the session we’re going to save some time for Q&A at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Design and Plan Training: To build an effective training, you need to do some assessment of the current skills, knowledge, and comfort level of employees. You will want to determine the best way to deliver training. Also, you’ll need plan out your training materials – fact sheets, tips sheets, and slide decks.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare. This was one of our most interactive webinars - it was filled with community organizers, after all - the Twitter stream and chat channel were delightfully out of control!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

That often intimidates nonprofit folks (including me), but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are low tech tools and online (low cost or free) SNA tools and great resources like Marc Smith at NodeXL. It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. In fact, we gave away a couple of free copies. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Last Friday, social media guru Mari Smith offered a free webinar that took a deep dive through the Facebook changes, and how they work for both individuals and brands. You can download the slides here and listen to the recording here. The webinar was 90 minutes and she took us through step-by-step about how the new features work.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

NetSquared holds free or low-cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. NetSquared Vancouver shares slides and videos from its November event. Mukono, Uganda: Free Microsoft's Office 365 for NGOs. Intensive Training Opportunity.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

There are free workshops and networking events happening in cities across the globe this month. And if you need some help with your video, you can take our short, free online course or sign up for help from one of our experts. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * Storymakers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Webinars (web seminars) have gained in popularity, more often than not, because they are inexpensive or sometimes free, depending on the tool. 2 for 1, free white paper, or enter them for the raffle. If they refer a friend they can get their webinar discount or make it free if a specific number of their friends register.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

NetSquared is here to help you along the way with everything from slide templates to planning checklists. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB and MKI Training: Sharing Your Success: Visualizing Outcomes Data. Austin, Texas: Google Digital Inclusion Fellowship — NTEN, Skillpoint, and Austin Free-Net. Check out one of our events!

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

There's plenty on the calendar but we want to be sure that a few special events make it to your calendars, too: Innogive, CiviCRM Training, and Penguin Day. CiviCRM Training Details: Date: March 16 - 17, 2011 Location: Pew DC Conference Center, 901 E St. Event fees go toward meeting the expenses involved in running this training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts. If your nonprofit meets these requirements, pick one site and invest 5 to 10 hours a week encouraging your fund-raisers, thanking them, and providing tips and training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. She is a lawyer, activist and blogger , and the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. . Tags: training materials. PopTech is an.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Their live online event was hidden behind a paywall, but now all video sessions and downloadable slides are available for free after filling out registration for their Pulse Everywhere content, creating long-term engagement. . Key Takeaways: LiveWorx allowed free attendance to boost engagement, and it worked. Microsoft Build.

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