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Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation and Impact: Reflecting on Our Journey

The MatrixFiles

All of this new work is prompting new offerings by Matrix Group, necessitating new training for my staff, and creating a need for new skills sets and new positions at the company. I provide my managers with communications skills training. Full of Gratitude As I reflect on 25 years of being in business, I am filled with gratitude.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Learn You Will: #14ntc Nonprofit Tech Training Session Reflection and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve collected the resources, notes, slides, and tweets from the session in this post. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I am particularly grateful to Cindy Leonard who compiled and consolidated our slides based on the design. I nominate #14ntctrain. ntenorg [link]. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was a slowness to it that we don’t have with digital photography (perhaps because the slide film was expensive and we didn’t want to waste film). Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need. Reflection.

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1 Million Trailhead Badges: Lessons from Salesforce.org’s Trailhead Journey

Saleforce Nonprofit

As we cross the milestone of having 1 million Trailhead badges earned, now is a great opportunity to reflect and share key takeaways on what our team learned through the process of designing and implementing a learning program on Trailhead. Map out your strategy: Literally, draw your map of content and audiences on paper or a slide.

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