Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2009

In this post I'll cover ways to participate in online trainings to save money and reduce travel. By the way, have a look at our information and resources about online learning. Online courses and trainings are one of the fastest growing areas of education. In the US the field is experiencing a 12.9

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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. If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. Then, if all works well, I will bring in Robin for a discussion.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Continue reading below to learn about the new offers and products we featured this year. or Cary __; gas or train __ ( funding ) Answer. The 400-foot range, 12-hour charge, Skype compatibility, and secure encryption let you move around the office. Skype Credits Help You Save on Calls. Or go for full webinar functionality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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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. On average, I work with about 25 people per day. Telework Tools Eli Relies On. Telework Headaches.

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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

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. Normalize the hump.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic. Increase Knowledge Capture.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Virtual volunteering not only empowers your supporters to take action for a cause they care about, but it can even expand your volunteer base. Consider interviewing volunteers with a video chat or conferencing tool, like Zoom or Skype. Next, we’ll talk about email. Take your training online. Online document collection.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. We thought it would be interesting for us to share our thoughts with you on what we're believe ought to be done about our survey findings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

While they are fun (and addicting), they are most useful if you set aside some time to not only generate the visual, but think about what does it mean for your current practice. I’m leaving on Friday to travel to Beirut as part of the eight-day Train the Trainers component of the E-Mediat project. E-Mediat Twitter Network.

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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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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2014

Hint: It's NOT About Saving Money. " 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. What About You? " Check out the video of the event. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. About $270 on Amazon.com. About $270 on Amazon. About $100 on Amazon. Use when recording with Skype. $42 Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. Recently, I read about an exercise that you can do to intentionally improve the experience for all.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

When the book was published, Paul kindly answered the following questions about the book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book? And I’ll admit, I had some initial hesitancy about this particular idea. Paul : For the kind of sales storytelling I’m talking about, I don’t think those changes are very relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Other international keynotes included colleagues Simon Mainwaring and Peter Sims (more about their ideas coming later this week in blogs posts, so stay tuned.) While her parents were concerned about her safety, she kept going. ”If your cause is true and right you have to persevere. ” Philantroteens.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

When the book was published, Paul kindly answered the following questions about the book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book? And I’ll admit, I had some initial hesitancy about this particular idea. Paul : For the kind of sales storytelling I’m talking about, I don’t think those changes are very relevant.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechSoup's fiscal year is about to end on June 30. 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. Don't miss out! TechSoup has those, too.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it. Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating About Impact by Stephanie Evergreen. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Satellite Internet gets the boot October 31, 2007 Finally, I have real broadband. I can Skype again (once I figure out how to use my USB headset on Linux.) I have to admit to being a very happy camper. {

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

We at TechSoup have discussed at length and presented about the sharing economy , but haven't done either for its less controversial cousin, the "on-demand" economy. Since 2013, Samaschool, part of the Sama Group, has provided in person technology training in low-income neighborhoods in California.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D Get Training : NTEN is offering regular webinars on the topic of how nonprofits can effectively use data. Start with this this post about Data as a buzz word , subscribe to Lucy’s blog, and read ” Navigating the New Social Economy.” The skills are out there.

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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

” Of course, with anything you measure, you have to determine what your goals and success means: Important to think about network goals, and what being a network member means #SM_RE. One SNA concept that Marc shared comes from Ron Burt and it is about “Bridging VS Bonding Social Capital.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# Check my Skype status.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

When the book was published, Paul kindly answered the following questions about the book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book? And I’ll admit, I had some initial hesitancy about this particular idea. Paul : For the kind of sales storytelling I’m talking about, I don’t think those changes are very relevant.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Let me tell you about Fundwriter.ai In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. Rather than go on about Fundwriter’s benefits, I asked Fundwriter to write about itself. Read more about the 30+ writing models in the section below.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Recently, Paul kindly answered the following questions about his new book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book? And I’ll admit, I had some initial hesitancy about this particular idea. It would be unintentional, because most people just haven’t thought much about the ethical and unethical uses of storytelling.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Today, Paul kindly answered the following questions about his new book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book? And I’ll admit, I had some initial hesitancy about this particular idea. It would be unintentional, because most people just haven’t thought much about the ethical and unethical uses of storytelling.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

In the meantime, here are answers to a few of the frequently asked questions we receive about social video: What Is Social Video? fun by thinking about choice, interactivity, causes to support, humor, and spotlighting perspectives in stories that would never otherwise be. Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? Make it easy to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

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. There is a new tool called SecondTalk that lets you integrate skype with Second Life. So, that's why I like having both the visual and the aural.

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