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KAUST Winter Enrichment Program 2013: Beginner’s Guide to Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

Location : King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. The course will include a lecture providing insight into the best practices of featured tools, and a hands-on learning component to help participants explore the tools directly on their laptops or in small group facilitated discussions. Slides (coming soon).

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. This is useful if you want both broadcast AND use your laptop to take notes (or answer email). NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Looking at your entire presentation from their perspective will not only encourage you to cut any excess information, but also help you to design more compelling slides. Eileen on energy levels: “You want to change up the sound of your voice and the visual variety of the slides, so people stay with you. Well, that depends.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The physical space is an open lab space, with lots of white boards, fast wifi, turkish coffee, and lots of geeks sitting on bean bag chairs or at tables with laptops on their laps coding and hacking on their projects. I go through my slides and think will this metaphor or idea translate to this cultural context.

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6 Online Speaking Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Looking at your entire presentation from their perspective will not only encourage you to cut any excess information, but also help you to design more compelling slides. Eileen on energy levels: “You want to change up the sound of your voice and the visual variety of the slides, so people stay with you. Well, that depends.

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You Are Never Too Old To Change The World!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She is entering her second year as an accounting major at a university in Phnom Penh. I still struggle with letting go of my slide projector to do fundraising talks. ve gotten more comfortable with my laptop and the web. Leng Sopharath , age 19, is an orphan. In fact, a few weeks ago we launched an online fundraising campaign.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. I have heard before: I’m a university library, so I can’t learn from or build on the work from the community library because it is just so different here. Comunity-Driven Libraries.

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