Remove Interview Remove Life Remove Literacy Remove Train
article thumbnail

How to successfully recruit and retain staff with innovative technology

Nimble AMS

Automation improves the employee work-life balance, and simultaneously lowers job stress levels. You can always invest in your staff with training, but some tech may be out of reach based on all that’s needed for implementation. Offer technology training for all employees. Why this disconnect in data literacy?

article thumbnail

10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. This is one reason why our Human Rights Field Team is supporting LGBTI rights groups from the Caribbean to the African regions with targeted Martus and capacity building trainings. But what about everybody else?

Literacy 158
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. 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. One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone.

Content 101
article thumbnail

Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps and an occasional brilliant insight that turned a mistake into a surprising portal of discovery. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Schoemaker. This book will help. Brilliance by Design by Vicki Halsey.

Skills 105
article thumbnail

Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President. We are pushing an envelope there.

article thumbnail

Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Pivot tables will change your life. Tweet questions to me at @annkemery , comment on Excel for Evaluation to request tutorials, or email me to request in-person training.

Data 139
article thumbnail

Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections. TechSoup for Libraries surveyed and interviewed organizations that received Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) funding. Pew Research Internet and American Life Project: Digital Divide.