Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Are you looking for secrets to giving great presentations?

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Struggling with gaps in talent and skills, organizations are starting to invest more heavily in technologies to predict their training requirements, understand their learners and to create exciting ways to deliver training and learning to their employees.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Great presentation skills always come handy whether you're offering an educational training, making a keynote speech, or bringing new funders aboard. Presentations for Webinars. Leroux Miller kicked off the discussion by offering advice focused on online presentations. Ask and Share with Your Audience.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Are you looking for secrets to giving great presentations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

A photo from this afternoon's protest poster and t-shirt making workshop that is part of RootsCampSL "J27 Events for Peace " Building stuff together in Second Life is where great learning takes place.The workshop leader was errcheck Hick (you can see his read t-shirt and ponytail in the photo.) He did an excellent job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

But wait a second, I could attempt to live blog remotely. because the session will take place in Second Life and will also be webcasted. Second Life: NMC Campus Amphitheater (number 5 on the map) (see picture of me above) (NOTE: Please join "NMC Guests" group for access to Amphitheater).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. 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.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. The October edition of Nonprofits Live examined the topic of online collaboration. Our Experts. where blog recaps and upcoming events can be found.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

s These uniforms are made by girls in our vocational program where we teach these young women sewing skills and pay them to work for our sewing shop or train them for higher paying jobs in the garment industry. So, if don't worry that we're over goal - there are many children who will benefit from the additional support. Ricardo Carreon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. You've got to love their logo. " Have any to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life. The Top Five Ways smart people are using twitter. I'd add fundraising with a ton of caveats). Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

" Way back when I actually did fundraising, this was like 20 years ago folks, so my skills and knowledge are a wee bit out of date -- the mantra used to be "Fundraising is all who knows whom." So, I started down this list that Lucy Bernholz has created, Online Social Networks and Second Life Philthanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Ultimately, my writing skills led me into professional pursuits where I actually get paid for feeding my addiction. Recently we set up an office in Second Life, on the Nonprofit Commons Plush island, and we just purchased our own island in Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

who I met in Second Life for advice) The link got fixed, but no apology! Thank you again This brings me to the photo at the top of this page as sort of test of my creative commons licensing skills. While I was initially flattered that one of my photos was published online by the SF Chronicle, they hadn't asked for permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. He will be bringing equipment and provide skills training to the first Community Access television station in Ghana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

He observed that Podcamp 2 was a lot about relationship building versus skill building. Joyce Bettencourt is a talented print and digital designer who also is doing some incredible work in Second Life. She did an excellent session on presenting skills. Laura Athavale Fitton is a presentation coach and consultant.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Why would they want a Second Life presence? How do you measure success of a project like this in Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. What you do inbetween the beats is up to you. That's where dancing takes place. Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Gaming is testing ideas, proposing solutions, and moving through the system. Gaming is about questioning everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Questions from the audience: What skill sets do smaller nonprofits need to have? Two basic skill sets: a.) The program introduces how to use the technology, but also social skills. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Impulse giving, slightly higher giving amounts. What is the first step?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

I think it is the same in nonprofits, although the mistrust is more about the concern around how to invest very limited resources (money, time, and skills) wisely. Of Second Life? Corporate types resist the adoption of these technologies, and then, subsequently embrace them. tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube? Of Facebook?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

While it took a full-time effort to launch this Web+Second Life platform where visitors can propose and prototype their own exhibits (the best of which we are now building at The Tech), it now takes only about 10 hours of my time weekly to manage the community, coordinate classes, support virtual exhibit designers, and make it happen.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can. This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. That's fine, but for a prospective employer, it's much more powerful if you can explain specifically how your skills will improve their organization. But internship after internship didn't live up to those expectations.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can. This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

I dusted off my weak Excel skills to determine that we had 173 different people use the #nmc2009 tag, and then did a count and sort to look at the frequency. We managed to get a medium quality Quicktime stream that we put into Second Life, and higher quality Flash video stream , that we made available on the web.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

It can help people get a better education, learn new skills to earn a living wage, or start a business. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. Who : Speakers: Marnie Webb | TechSoup Global; Michael Best; Edward Granger-Happ; Jane Meseck. When : 1:30 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

Going beyond tools, however, Nancy White points out an article about a study that shows that women often rank their tech skills lower than they actually are. I need to share this with my colleague Loretta Donovan , the Blog Queen, who keeps making disclaimers about her geekiness. for social change.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 26, 2007

I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share this hilarious spoof of Second Life with you. Today, in keeping with the above, real-life games that motivate social collaboration. skills derive from imaginative and precise description. But enough of that silliness. I've used this game with many poetry classes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2012

They work "to ensure that urban youth have the knowledge, skills, experiences, and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process, and achieve leadership in their communities and on the global stage. Global Kids' Online Leadership Program.

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