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RESULTS: An Acronym For Nonprofit Success

Bloomerang

An acronym is a much beloved tool of English teachers and PowerPoint presenters all over the world. Utilizing the ideas of those you work with can have major long-term positive impacts on every level of your organization — plus it’s one of the ways to keep your workforce or supporter base feeling engaged and valued.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Network + Self-Organizing + Location + Data Visualization = 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This comes in the form of maps or other creative ways to see our networks. These ideas are going to have an impact on the way nonprofits use the Web in 2010 and into the next couple of years. How do you see the ideas of network, self-organizing, location, and data visualization impacting your nonprofit's work?

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. This time I wanted to feature NGOs around the world that are making a humanitarian impact internationally across several countries.

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Tools to Tell Your Digital Story Available Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

PowerPoint 2013 can be used to create image slides and animations like nonprofit Trickle Up did. Esri : Show where your organization is making an impact or how its impact has evolved with Esri. Use Esri’s geographic information system software to create maps that tell your story.

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The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function

NTEN

Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Each reason is clearly presented with no more text than you might put on a PowerPoint slide. VolunteerMatch: Live Map. Implementation: Custom mash-up of site specific volunteer activity with geo data to map via Google Maps. Open Source – API.

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TechSoup at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Tech Soup

Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. No PowerPoint. Working remotely is becoming more and more common in nonprofits, whether for time-efficiency, greater focus, increased travel, environmental impact, or hiring far-flung talent. Lynn Van Housen. No technology demos.