NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Using adult learning principles in technology trainings — an NTEN Digital Inclusion Fellow shares a few key lessons about how to (and how not to) train adults. If you teach people to operate software, have them follow along on their computer instead of just watching the trainer perform the task.

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NTEN

APRIL 6, 2021

Language — Is English the primary language of all your volunteer programs? Can you incorporate some other languages to include more people from your community? Take stock of your existing staff and volunteer language capabilities and incorporate different languages in your volunteer programs to make them more inclusive.

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Volunteer Ideas Develop Management 110

Care2

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Year after year the annual NTC conference produced by NTEN has been the "go to" conference for nonprofit campaigners to get the latest best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, online fundraising and social media. Beyond English - Remove the Language Barrier to Relieve Poverty and Save Lives. Here are my top five picks.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

As Holly wrote in the #NTCFail blog post outlining the things that didn’t go as planned at the event, we value being open and accountable at NTEN. NTCwinning 2: Learning Everywhere So much teaching and learning happens at the NTC and that makes us proud. Yes, the counter to #NTCfail is #NTCwinning. View the recording.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Look at most online and offline forums in our space, even outside of NTEN, and you'll find it's the accidental techie who offers helpful down-to-earth counsel. We're also good at translating tech-geek into language that the average program-focused person can understand, even if we can't write a line of code ourselves.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

While you should be wary of anybody promising to teach you how to make people laugh, some of the advice itself can be pretty funny. Humor helps, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

(And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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