TechImpact

DECEMBER 3, 2013

“Where I’m from, jail and death before age 18 are the two major options, but I wanted different,” said Christopher Snow, who because of ITWorks is now working as a Technology Services Technician for the large international consulting firm, Accenture. 400 purchases a laptop so students can study at home. Donate this. Donate this.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 13, 2013

They emerge from the program with industry-recognized certifications, hands-on experience, and the professional skills and network they need to compete for jobs in the technology workforce. 400 purchases a laptop so students can study at home. Our students are unemployed or underemployed. How to help. Donate this. Donate this.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

Flickr Photo: peppy sis Most people probably wouldn't put Earth Day and technology together, but you and I know that's just silly. We just finished spring cleaning the NTEN offices and took a laptop, four boxes of toner, some thumb drives, a broken keyboard, and some old power supplies to Free Geek last night. Skip the commute.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn is a major gift fundraiser and nonprofit communications expert who uses technology to amplify her impact and do more with less. Q: What if one I have only basic office skills? Prior to college, I had also taken typing courses to hone my office skills, and this made me a valuable employee. Meet Carolyn Appleton!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need. It may sound counter-intuitive but we need to use technology. And, of course, there’s an app to help you apply this skill.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology. The session was so engaging and informative that, as soon as the session ended, I logged into my laptop and set up CI jobs in my project to get practice setting up my own pipelines.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

But I have come to realize that it is actually a useful thing (skillful means, in Buddhist terms) to have a time of year where you consciously decide to dig deeper, and connect with yourself, and God/Spirit/Wisdom/{your name for the Divine here}. Watching TV or movies on my laptop/computer/tablet/phone/etc. (no Playing video games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Achieve

MAY 11, 2023

These can be t-shirts, laptop cases, water bottles, pens, lanyards, and so much more. When you show your genuine gratitude for their efforts, employees will be motivated to work harder and may even go the extra mile by learning skills that specifically help with your nonprofit’s operations. Branded nonprofit merchandise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Stephen Blyth wrote up this reflection from the workshop about mindfulness and points a recent Guardian post where Oliver Burkeman delves into ‘conscious computing’. The article showcases “Calming” technology – which is to use technology to help you focus or what he calls the “slow web movement.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2017

Dust off the cobwebs on your old branding and spruce up your accounting and financial management skills with our March webinars. If you're already using QuickBooks and want to learn more intermediate skills, join us for the existing nonprofit user webinar on March 22. The same can be done for your organization this month.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Even before our current health situation arose , technology has been the leading method of engaging employees in today’s society. Skills-Based Volunteering. In the span of one year, from 2016 to 2017, remote work grew 7.9%. Over the last five years , remote work grew 44% and over the previous 10 years, it grew 91%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

After 26 years of using a PC, I'm going to switch to MAC (dual processor) when this computer and my laptop die. I'm going to continue to play and reflect and learn about technology tools and how they can be used to support nonprofits and to create instructional material. Keep things in draft a little longer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps. The value of doing an extended peer learning exchange is that participants get the opportunity to put the ideas in practice and apply what they learned. The Importance of Energizers Throughout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

Holly knows how to weave people together, give recognition, create rituals, and all the many other skills of building a strong community. One tradition she started last year, in response to the economy, was to get extra sponsorship from Convio to cover some scholarships for those who otherwise couldn't make it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. . Can we deliver job skills for $10 per skill? It showcases projects that demonstrate best practices in technology in the area of social change.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2014

In this case, a team leader would be able to select specific volunteers by a predefined category, such as the skills they possess. At the event we talked to some very smart and committed ham radio experts to understand new technologies useful for converting ham radio signals to readable messages on a laptop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

But I have come to realize that it is actually a useful thing (skillful means, in Buddhist terms) to have a time of year where you consciously decide to dig deeper, and connect with yourself, and God/Spirit/Wisdom/{your name for the Divine here}. Watching TV or movies on my laptop/computer/tablet/phone/etc. (no Playing video games.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors. Kosaraju's father, like many parents in this region, has been working in the technology sector for a while.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Jeff Hancock has been working with technology both from the developer or technical standpoint and as a business manager for. technology since 2000, when he helped establish the San Diego Futures. SDFF was founded in late 1999 by two co-workers and me to provide technology and technical services to nonprofits in San Diego County.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. Put your laptop in the closet and don’t take it with you if you are traveling for your vacation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. Yes, there are a lot of terrible meetings – agenda less, scheduled for no reason, poor facilitation, lousy prep and follow up, technology glitches – and the reasons go on. One of the modules is on meetings.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2015

The project provides paid internships and job skills training for unemployed and low-income veterans, as well as rehabilitation therapy (through gardening!) Solar-Powered Technology and Job Skills Training. The Veterans Organic Garden has laptops that are mainly used to train veteran interns in employment skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. If you want to explore the intersection of technology use and mindfulness, follow Soren's work. Technology stress and information overload have been around for decades. Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? You have a great staff, but they are not sophisticated in the use of technology tools. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Donating computers and laptops to school districts is strengthened by working with nonprofits such as Comp-U-Dopt to refurbish electronics and purchase new equipment for families in need. Qualified teachers are also struggling to deliver content virtually with little to no technological training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. It boils down to audience. We lost electricity and could not use the powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. This first day’s three learning objectives: 1. Nerds, Geeks, and Hackers.

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Achieve

JUNE 3, 2019

An online giving page that’s mobile-responsive—that is, one that you can access and use as easily on a smartphone as on a desktop or laptop computer—is an essential step in providing your donors with mobile giving options. The answer is: as many as you have the time and skills to manage and update effectively. About the Author.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2015

She says that most patrons also prefer the comfort and privacy of being able to use a laptop anywhere in the library. " Patrons can make appointments with Amy for one-on-one coaching, where she teaches them basic computer skills. QuickBooks to the Rescue. " "What does your community really need?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you’re looking at your technology budget and wondering whether you’re getting your money’s worth, join Digital Strategist & Technology Coach Maureen Wallbeoff and learn exactly how to harness the power of your technology to help your organization grow. They’re just technology.” ” I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together an unusual mix of technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age. The Wisdom 2.0 Watch live streaming video from wisdom2conf at livestream.com.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

HART needed a technology solution that would allow it to go from a staff of 5 to 50 people — without having to pay additional costs or have extra maintenance. Executive director Julie Lyles Carr says: "Anything that helps get the message out through technology is so important." " The Kosch-Westerman Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Technology can be a huge barrier for inclusion if we don’t consider the digital divide of skills, tools, and Internet speeds when selecting platforms and tools for meetings. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops). Beware of Power Imbalances and Group Dynamics. 8: Hybrid Meeting: Specific Facilitation Tips.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2021

The cybersecurity job market is in the super-niche skills areas. Increasingly using technology, the internet, digitization of the assets, and data pose security risks and threats to every business. The average highest salary is around $218,000 per annum according to ZipRecruiter. Explain the need for cybersecurity in organizations?

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