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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. I was always coming up with new, crazy ideas of social ventures, and Gerry was a great sounding board. Not only that, Gerry also turned me and a bunch of the Benetech team onto digital photography.

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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. Now, that’s inspiring!

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Game On: How Gamification is Changing the Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

If gamification sounds like the right answer for your organization, it is most important to define the goals for both parties and the methods that will be used to create an engagement system. While growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio he learned to his passion was within the arts and photography.

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Adobe Is Creating Change

Tech Soup

The Foundation supports organizations with a principal focus on the creation and exhibition of visual and multimedia art, as well as those that use or teach design as a tool to address social issues and to improve lives and communities. The Foundation's community grants program has two focus areas: Arts and Creativity. Youth Services.

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[VIDEO] 4-Step Plan to More Donations and Greater Fundraising Results

Bloomerang

I that’s what I do for a living or aren’t you teaching us about fundraising today, Jesse?” And then eventually we felt like we needed to put this into an online course so that as many people as possible could engage with it because obviously I was limited in how I could teach it. You know, it’s not cool.

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10 Great Nonprofit Websites and How To Improve Yours

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

If it sounds a bit out of your depth, Twenti can help you create a great nonprofit website that works for your cause, just arrange a free consultation with us. Interactive elements on your website are key to making sure viewers stay engaged long enough to learn what you’re trying to teach and to inspire them to seek more information.

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[VIDEO] Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing

Bloomerang

If you have a skill, if you have something to teach that you want your audience to know about, you can create your own Alexa skill for free at Amazon. You don’t have to have any photography experience, any videography experience because I don’t and I made a 360 video and it was really pretty cool. So pretty neat.