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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marcelo Iniarra pointed out that people have limited attention, but simple human experiences like this video of an interrupted skype interview with Robert Kelly from Korean caught people’s attention around the globe. Stories need to be compelling, immersive, human, funny, or provocative to capture attention. Transparency.

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Tips to Maximize Your Nonprofit’s Data Plan

Tech Soup

If you have a reliable history of data usage, look at the trends over time and make allowances for growth. GB), streaming an hour of high-definition video (1 to 2 GB), or making Skype-to-Skype calls (3 MB per minute). You can also use Integra’s network bandwidth calculator to get a sense of usage.

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It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Learn

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use video for capturing knowledge from webinars, trainings, skype sessions, and so on – that can be easily remixed into how-to guides and explanations. This person would assist others in developing their own self-directed learning activities with networks as well as curate relevant learning content to the needs of the organizations.

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Samaschool Uses Tech to Empower Low-Income People

Tech Soup

This trend has been gaining steam and is expected to have global implications. Samaschool's students will be ready to join that trend and take advantage of the benefits of the online work market. On a site like Upwork or Freelancer , you can post a project and find workers who will perform a computer-based task for a fee.

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How Multi-Chapter Nonprofits Can Create a Consistent Brand on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For 10 chapters or less, use Skype Premium. Odds are that the chapter staff in charge of managing your nonprofit’s mobile and social media campaigns on the local level are limited in their ability to research current trends due to time constraints. Google+ Hangouts are free, but not as reliable as the paid services.

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New to TechSoup: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

Tech Soup

Updated contacts: You can stay in touch with your customers by clicking or tapping a phone number to make calls via Lync or Skype or by clicking or tapping an email address to send an email. Clean data helps nonprofits find more constituents and trends and raise more funds. Screenshot of the dashboard with the new navigation bar.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

Gyrus

Let us look at some of the top technology trends taking place in the training and Development Industry: Mobile Learning : According to e- Marketer, the number of smartphone users in the United States is estimated to reach 207.2 million, with the number of smartphone users worldwide forecast to exceed 2 billion users by the end of 2016.