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3 Top Learning Strategies You Need To Change The World

Bloomerang

How about trying to journal? The easiest place to begin might be to keep a gratitude journal. For fundraisers, I recommend you keep a donor gratitude journal. I’ve seen folks who keep such journals not only become more effective fundraisers, but also enjoy their work so much more.

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The $3 Laptop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Snazzzz 's post in live journal comes the story of the $3 laptop. Inspired by MIT's $100 laptop project, they've been working on their own educational laptop project and delivered their first working model to Saron, a banking and finance student living in a small village near Prek Eng. They had it fixed.

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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My walking ritual was featured in this Wall Street Journal article. I also have a winding down ritual – I set the alarm, make my next day to-do list, and put away my laptop and phone. Walking can be inclusive. You don’t need to walk as your fake commute and other activities help you establish boundaries. Make it a no screen zone.

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4 Tech Solutions To Better Collaboration For Nonprofits

TechImpact

Image courtesy of The Journal. Adopting an all-in-one cloud service solution can enable mobile access to work materials, team conversations, and shared calendars from a tablet, smartphone, or laptop. A connected nonprofit is a successful nonprofit when it comes to collaborating and working in teams.

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One Laptop per Child meets the Competition

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal highlights the effect that the One Laptop per Child Initiative has had on the pc industry. The result is that low-cost laptops are being sold to schools in many developing countries today, but surprisingly few are OLPC units.

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Google exec: Connecting via social media can spur nonprofit donations - Phoenix Business Journal:

AFP Blog

Google exec: Connecting via social media can spur nonprofit donations - Phoenix Business Journal:: "Google Business Development Manager Jaime Casap led a spirited presentation about the importance of technology in today’s business and nonprofit environment.With a declaration of “the laptop is dead,” Casap said the importance of a strong and meaningful (..)

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Great reads from around the web on May 14th

Amy Sample Ward

New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook - The Wall Street Journal circulated a newly compiled list of "professional conduct" covering social media, social networking, and so on. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop.