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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. One approach to documenting skill requirements could be to create a matrix of skills and roles for your organization. Northstar Digital Literacy has some online assessments free to individuals.

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The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Information

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. There is also a social change role.

Literacy 110
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WeAreMedia: Listening for Nonprofits in a Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice. Got to share my Radian 6 dashboard.

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Employee Recruitment and Retention: 4 Engagement Tips

Forj

This was initially a struggle, as the lack of face-to-face interaction makes it much harder to teach concepts and learn about a new role. Design a training/onboarding process that reflects your organization. In the past year, training and onboarding shifted online due to the move to remote work.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it was pointed out that there is a lot known about the numbers and less is known about how they are using, the role it plays, and what it means to them. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. It can't just teach them to think about media, but making it on your own terms."

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How Leaders Achieve Balance

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Leadership pundits are talking a lot about vulnerability, but seldom reflect on what that means in practice. Teaching should be used judiciously to ensure it's done in the right moments, supports the goals of the business, and is grounded in fact. Fight entropy.

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How To Discover Balance As A Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Leadership pundits are talking a lot about vulnerability, but seldom reflect on what that means in practice. Teaching should be used judiciously to ensure it's done in the right moments, supports the goals of the business, and is grounded in fact. Fight entropy.