Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2014

Hint: It's NOT About Saving Money. They might have particular skills or expertise to share with your organization or community. " She says it's not a paycheck that makes the difference - it's training. Therefore, you should be training your paid staff and your volunteers on best practices. What About You?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

The event is seen as a low-cost, high-value training and we wish to keep that reputation,” the creative brief instructed. For the first time, scholarships were offered to individuals whose nonprofit employers couldn’t afford to send them to the training. This was long before Zoom, and Skype was still relatively new.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Virtual volunteering not only empowers your supporters to take action for a cause they care about, but it can even expand your volunteer base. Consider interviewing volunteers with a video chat or conferencing tool, like Zoom or Skype. Next, we’ll talk about email. Take your training online. Online document collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data – so we don’t look at it.” The skills are out there. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D from MIT in rocket science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. That wasn’t fair. Including me.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. That wasn’t fair. Including me.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. That wasn’t fair. Including me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. For the same reason, I love my cordless phone because I find I listen to long phone meetings better when I can walk around and move away from my computer.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Let me tell you about Fundwriter.ai In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. Rather than go on about Fundwriter’s benefits, I asked Fundwriter to write about itself. Read more about the 30+ writing models in the section below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. Here's one of her training presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

With so many people, it was a challenge to make this Webinar interactive, but there was a lot of discussion in the chat and some online activities. One important skill of the curator is to provide context, so I started with sharing my lens on this topic. Evolution of the Web Infographic (hat tip Dirk Slater - click for Source).

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. I went home to live with my parents in rural Wisconsin, and just to be close to my roots, and have the space to really think about the vision. One thing I have learned about myself is that I have to adapt and shift.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). What’s unique and useful about it is that it can be configured to integrate with your Twitter and Facebook accounts. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). CharityRadio is a live weekly radio program that you listen to over your mobile phone. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country. Skype Premium :: skype.com/intl/en-us/prices/premium. Worldometers :: worldometers.info.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). What’s unique and useful about it is that it can be configured to integrate with your Twitter and Facebook accounts. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). CharityRadio is a live weekly radio program that you listen to over your mobile phone. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). What’s unique and useful about it is that it can be configured to integrate with your Twitter and Facebook accounts. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

The Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference hosted a series of discussions about how technology is used to expand and sometimes undermine essential freedoms around the world. El-Fatah said companies should be pressured to resist having their products used to suppress dissent and think carefully about the rights of ordinary users. "We

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