Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. Preparing them for college or jobs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Potential job applicants are beginning to place as much emphasis on positive organizational culture as they do on job tasks and salaries. Leadership skills are only just about our inner-selves, it is also how we relate to other people and manage those relationships, especially in the workplace.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Train Them On the Job. Whatever it is, giving your volunteer a broader look at why their job is important is motivating and gives a great sense of accomplishment when it’s complete. Teach Them About the Program, Too. This may be some kind of printed piece, or a short video that they can watch with the donor.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Let’s call it an anchor story since its job is to anchor people on the page, keeping them on the site as long as possible.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. As top leaders in your organization, your board members should be skilled, trustworthy, reliable individuals who are passionate about your mission. Identify skill requirements. Write job descriptions. Hold interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The people with skills are out there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

One of today's New York Times' headlines is, Economy Shed 598,000 Jobs in January. If you're one of the folks looking for a job with a nonprofit right now, here are some ways to use the web to help with your search. LinkedIn LinkedIn is a professional social network, so it's ripe with job search opportunities.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

April 3, 2012) : A huge part of landing your new job is winning the interview. Teach Online Communication Skills to San Francisco Seniors (April 2, 2012): Can you remember the first time you sent an email or had a Skype Video Chat? Mock Interviews: Help A+ Certified Tech Perfect their Interviewing Techniques!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

These volunteers should have the time, skills, and interests to help you provide programming and services to your beneficiaries. Once you’ve pinpointed what you need new volunteers to do, write out “job descriptions” for different volunteer roles to put on your volunteer website. Send out social media blasts.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

These programs help your staff members develop skills that can be applied at your organization for more efficient processes and a productive work environment. . We’ve written this guide on professional development programs to help nonprofit executives like you empower employees to develop skills and hone their craft.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is esse ntial to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether your organization is training its own staff in nonprofit management, or teaching others technical skills, TechSoup can help you get started. Train on Over 150 Products with Atomic Training.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Teams also has video conferencing, as an alternative to Zoom , as well as file storage. Slack: This is the market leader for inter-office communication the way Zoom is for video conferencing. There are many books and YouTube videos about list-making, including many that discourage lists altogether.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2011

Each of the solutions, such as online conferencing, recorded seminars, screencasts, and learning management systems, utilize the Internet to take the common job training seminar and keep it on location, saving time, energy, and money. Tools for Training Staff Online. Getting to know Online Conferencing Tools.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is essential to keep technology knowledge and skills up to date. Job training for at-risk youth, veterans re-entering the workforce, or even homeless or transitional populations. Users can view the videos from any web-connected computer. Train on Over 150 Products.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Mary did a fabulous job! Both language and what you’re teaching. Even if you have a video with sub-titles, the speakers might be speaking too fast. A couple of tips I picked up from observing Mary in action that will be particularly useful for trainings for participants where English isn’t their first language.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2015

Vu from “Nonprofit With Balls” has drafted four children’s books to teach valuable nonprofit lessons to our sector’s future leaders. A young woman has taken on the video game industry. What will it take to get a nonprofit job in 2020? According to this article , you can improve your chances with data savvy and design skills.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

What do you need to do a more effective job of eliminating obstacles to engagement? . Claire runs “Clairification School” online, teaches the CFRE course that certifies professional fundraisers, and is a regular contributor to Guidestar, NonProfit PRO and Maximize Social Business. Are you keeping up with your blog or e-newsletter? .

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you get kids in on the fundraising fun, you have a great opportunity to teach them important values like leadership, responsibility, goal-setting, team building, and community engagement. Wrangle all of your creative kids together and ask them to put their art skills to work creating one-of-a-kind holiday cards.

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Forj

APRIL 24, 2018

Reading might be preferred to video because physicians can use their excellent skimming skills on it. When video is used, make sure it’s possible to play it at 1.5x Formats that require attention to the learner’s eyes and ears at the same time—like video and narrated presentations—are harder to fit into busy days.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

There are all kinds of great videos, case studies you can dive into and kind of get to know us a little bit more. . Well, in 1990, I got a chance to work for the governor of Minnesota and I realized I didn’t want that job. So I’m going to teach you what works so you don’t have to make the mistakes that I did.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Leading a group of passionate volunteers, doing deeds that help the community around you, and making a meaningful difference to an important cause are what make the job of a volunteer management leader worth it. Consider interviewing volunteers with a video chat or conferencing tool, like Zoom or Skype. Virtual volunteer screening.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Building a donor-friendly website is a complex job – part marketing and part technical. Squarespace, Weebly, and Wix are do-it-yourself sites designed for people with no coding skills. You will probably need to hire a WordPress developer to build your site, but your developer can teach you how to make updates after your site goes live.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. But I spend most of my time as a trainer and a strategist as a coach and I help organizations and the people that lead them, just like you, grow your skills, your teams, and your results. What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people? In the house.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I can’t believe I’m about to back up this claim with a YouTube video , but here it is: Daniel Pink talking about the severe limitations of financial incentives and what really motivates people to do great work. The more a person’s job includes the following elements, the harder it is to fairly evaluate (and reward) individual performance: 1.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

While in detention, these four characters discover an old video game system with a Jumanji cartridge already inserted into the console. They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. You might need to use video to get your message across. Your team members have unique skills.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether you're educating yourself or your staff, or teaching others technical skills, we can help you stay up-to-date on the latest technology, fundraising tools, or development strategies. September's here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Cooking classes have a broad appeal because they attract not just gourmet food, but also individuals who want to learn new skills. 4) Happy hours/wine tasting.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And all kinds of information on our website, you can watch videos, get a really good sense of what we have to offer. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Thinking of shopping, maybe before the end of the year, all kinds of videos and stuff that you can check out. I that’s what I do for a living or aren’t you teaching us about fundraising today, Jesse?” So day two on the job. That’s what Bloomerang is. Jesse, how’s it going? Well, awesome.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, on one hand, involuntary reliance on video platforms and social media paid new dividends in accessibility for volunteers and clients. And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. The most fortunate kept their jobs and their health. Geography and Transportation. “In-person

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I love that “engagement” word, it’s in my job title after all, so this is a good one. You can go to our website, there’s all kinds of videos and resources you can check out there to get to know us a little bit more. You should practice what you teach, which is, you know, be open and learn and grow.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. Think of this as a job interview— this professional will be responsible for providing the strategy behind the growth of your learning business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In the meantime, enjoy the thank you video! s These uniforms are made by girls in our vocational program where we teach these young women sewing skills and pay them to work for our sewing shop or train them for higher paying jobs in the garment industry. I'm elated that we made goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

The first panel on video games at Davos. IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure. Games teach this. Colbert quipped, "I know my car jacking skills have gone up." What about Grand Theft Auto?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Plug donor skills into the work. These need not look like a commercial.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

There's also a shorter, more expository (and positive) CBS video about the experience here. This time, the onscreen actors and educator don't say "good job" or reward the students for their desire to avoid invasion. You can listen to Starlee Kline's opinionated 20-minute piece about it here. You will make history.

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