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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. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Why get good at Excel?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller. Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset. This book will help.

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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. I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. That’s less true.

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Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide?

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According the New York Times “Facebook is already working on techniques to reduce the average amount of data used by its Android mobile app from the current 12 megabytes a day to 1 megabyte without users noticing.” Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion tslibraryorg digital literacy' Connectivity Is a Human Right.

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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. There was a wonderful interview with Jane McGonigal and Kelly McGonigal about their work.

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