Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

That’s why I invited Robin Good to skype into my session. Last week, in preparation for this talk, I had a skype call with Robin Good , one of the best content curators on the planet. The other is a collection of content curation for nonprofit resources that I have to used to develop workshops and trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” Training Design' I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. ” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. It does mean that everyone who is involved in a webinar needs to install Skype – but that seems to be a minor issue, to my mind. But, you can’t use the Skype edition on Linux yet, either.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

The partner we chose, Worth Trust employs people with disabilities, in addition they conduct life skills classes and provide training. After several days of training in Chennai and through Skype with me in California and the Worth Trust team in Chennai they started off with 30 books a month.

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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 16, 2015

I work with volunteers holding technology-training events for nonprofits in 50 cities across 20 countries. No matter where I'm based, I'd still be spending most of my day on email, Skype, Google+ Hangouts, and the phone. Email, Skype , and Google+ Hangouts keep me in touch with my Netsquared organizers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Step 4: Offer training through webinars. GoToWebinar and ReadyTalk are the easiest webinar tools to use and you should budget at least $100 a month for the month the training occurs if you need to train 100 attendees or less. For 10 chapters or less, use Skype Premium. At two months before, send another reminder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Many of the techniques are now possible and within the next decade, just-in-time learning will likely become a cultural norm in nonprofits and elsewhere. This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice. Increase Knowledge Capture.

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MAY 18, 2021

These products include Skype, Google Hangouts, and FaceTime. World class training and support. Video Conference vs. Video Interview. To begin with, the most basic form of video service, video chat is meant for personal use and quick one-off calls. They are used on both computers and mobile devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. What was your experience?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Consider interviewing volunteers with a video chat or conferencing tool, like Zoom or Skype. Take your training online. A comprehensive and well-planned volunteer training program helps familiarize volunteers with your mission, further connecting them to your cause and encouraging them to continue supporting it.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2013

Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows Phone) is the mobile version of the popular face-to-face video calling service (we use Skype here at TechSoup). TechSoup's new Audio and Video Conferencing Toolkit has everything you need to help your organization hold virtual meetings or trainings with donated or free software. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

I’m leaving on Friday to travel to Beirut as part of the eight-day Train the Trainers component of the E-Mediat project. On each team, we have master trainers, training center coordinators, and social media advisors. As part of that first day, we’ll be creating individual and collective network maps.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2011

Instant messaging services, including those integrated with Skype and Google mail, are great for quick, up-to-the-minute communications. Longer conversations can benefit from conference calling accounts like BetterWorld Telecom or video conferencing , much like what is offered by Skype, Google Chat, Citrix or Watchitoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

For context, read my first post about this project.) The highlight of third day was a VIP Lunch with project sponsors, implementation team, and remote participation via skype from members of the In-Country teams in Jordan and Morocco. She noted that the sector was not as developed due to lack of training, language, and resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Use when recording with Skype. $42 42 on Amazon Skype Podcast Recording Software Skype [link] (Skype to Skype is free. You can pay monthly, or as you go if you call from Skype to a phone). Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. Logitech ClearChat Pro USB Headset.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2014

" 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. However, as Jayne said, "People think paychecks are magical and somehow make people more committed." Finding (and Keeping!) Great Volunteers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

Some interesting ones are: Skype — the overwhelming favorite free audio and video calling service internationally. So far, the Skype premium mobile phone app allows only group audio calls. If you’d like to just try web conferencing, there are some free web conferencing services. Find my overview of Lync here.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Design tall buildings, create training videos, and more with Autodesk's Ultimate suites. Need to train volunteers? Litmos provides a powerful, cost-saving, learning management system for on-demand online training. Creative Tools: Support Your Mission Visually. We've added five Autodesk products to our catalog.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Some smartphones like iPhones and Dell Venue Pro phones can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi and even do Skype calls. PEC is also running 20 computer training labs as well, called Keyspots , where kids can earn a free refurbished desktop. PEC has delivered 80,000 hours of training to 50,000 people since 2010 in these labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

In a few weeks, I’ll be facilitating a training in the Ukraine with Wake International. We brought our remote partners into the room via Skype. We had assigned a bridge moderator, but we also made sure that we positioned the laptop so the remote person could see our faces.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I can Skype again (once I figure out how to use my USB headset on Linux.) Unfortunately, it is the apparently increasingly dastardly Comcast, but it is so way much better than satellite by Hughesnet , that I can’t really find it in myself to complain. I have to admit to being a very happy camper. {

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Their meeting featured a special conversation via Skype with girls in South Africa as part of the Girl Up Campaign’s emphasis on uniting girls around the world. It was the first speaking engagement that I was able to scale delivery of my interactive keynote to 1,000 people in fixed seating and in two languages using a translator.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

for many, the jobs crisis has led to a growing number of NEET youth – those Not engaged in education, employment or training – and they can quickly become marginalized, creating even more costs for society. environments, and a lack of technical or vocational training to open new. opportunities. their future and ours.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

She argues, "Creating an email address, learning how to search for something online, learning how to talk on Skype, building a résumé on Microsoft Word — these are things that we think are very simple, and we take for granted, but you learn them automatically when you have access to the Internet.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

By including those two additional chapters, I felt like I was giving them a powerful tool, but with the training and wisdom to use it responsibly. Sure, that face-to-face meeting might happen over Skype from a thousand miles away, or that phone call my technically be carried over the Internet instead of a phone wire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I speak to college students regularly, many times through skype like this group of students in Indiana this past month who shared stories about their internships which often included measurement and spreadsheets.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

By including those two additional chapters, I felt like I was giving them a powerful tool, but with the training and wisdom to use it responsibly. Sure, that face-to-face meeting might happen over Skype from a thousand miles away, or that phone call my technically be carried over the Internet instead of a phone wire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Get Training : NTEN is offering regular webinars on the topic of how nonprofits can effectively use data. I speak to college students regularly, many times through skype like this group of students in Indiana this past month who shared stories about their internships which often included measurement and spreadsheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. At the last minute, we were able to bring them in via video skype, although the connection and AV set did not a lot us to interact through that channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

That often intimidates nonprofit folks (including me), but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are low tech tools and online (low cost or free) SNA tools and great resources like Marc Smith at NodeXL.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

By including those two additional chapters, I felt like I was giving them a powerful tool, but with the training and wisdom to use it responsibly. Sure, that face-to-face meeting might happen over Skype from a thousand miles away, or that phone call my technically be carried over the Internet instead of a phone wire.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

For example, when we asked respondents if they were using a specific cloud-based app (such as Skype), responses were different than when we asked if they used a cloud-based app to perform a function, such as web conferencing. That's, in fact, the largest barrier to adoption that was identified in the survey. How to Fix the Confusion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Check my Skype status. All this so a bunch of people can tell each other what they are doing. And, I’m sorry, but “ Insert_web.20_new_thing 20_new_thing to change the world!&# just doesn’t cut it for me. Wanna know what I’m doing? Those windows are already open, and I use them everyday.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

uses artificial intelligence that has been trained on billions of real-world examples. Fundwriter further trains this AI using nonprofit-specific writing samples from websites to appeals to proposals to social posts. The AI uses all of this training to determine what words are most likely to follow the last word. Fundwriter.ai

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