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3 Strategies for Effective Nonprofit E-Learning

The Nerdy NonProfit

And, you’ll likely need a learning management system to handle course delivery. You can have the most efficient delivery system, and the best user experience… but if the content isn’t useful, it’s a moot point. Do staff members need to develop a skill, such as the ability to recognize and avoid common grammar mistakes?

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Confessions of a Nonprofit Database Administrator, Part II

Connection Cafe

The more complicated you make it, the less likely it is to be understood, and the more inconsistent it is in your system. A nyway, one of the presenters said that us DBAs (or DBMs as he said and I am 10000% on board) are ‘a lot more than a list of technical skills.’ I have a very particular set of skills.” Thank you! (n

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Can participants apply the skills?” Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. It is tempting to think of this step as only doing a survey to answer the questions, “Did the workshop accomplish its objectives? Learner Culmination and Celebration. Closing Circle.

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TechSoup's Top 10 Tech Topics of 2016

Tech Soup

Discover how to identify, enter, group, and present information in your accounting system. Our step-by-step how-to series helps you learn all the basic Photoshop skills. Office 2016 is packed with new features for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook that are designed to improve teamwork and help support growing organizations.

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4 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Move to the Cloud

Tech Soup

Cloud applications are updated frequently, and teams of skilled cybersecurity engineers use sophisticated software to watch over datacenters. CRM (constituent relationship management) applications are becoming the center of our nonprofit IT systems. One of the true headaches of modern IT is the danger of hacking and malware.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. Mazur uses technology,a web-based monitoring system where students submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class. Participants will retain what they learned, it sticks.

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NTC VideoGeekOut Session: The Video

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our morning panel went well despite a few technical glitches with the sound system. He has two more indepth powerpoints packed with advice just on making documentaries. The afternoon sessions consisted of a drop-in video skills coaching.

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