Karen Graham, executive director of Idealware, interviewed me earlier this year on designing and logistics of hands-on training; This is Part II of the interview on designing technology training. It was originally posted on idealware.com. In this second post in our series about hands-on technology training, Birgit Pauli-Haack explains how she creates a training session. […]
Logistics for Hands-On Training
Karen Graham, executive director of Idealware, interviewed me earlier this year on designing and logistics of hands-on training; This is Part I of the interview on logistics. It was originally posted on idealware.com. Offering technology training is a great way to boost user adoption and improve technology effectiveness—except sometimes the training really stinks. I interviewed […]
Top 5 most read stories – Daily #NPTech News via @Nuzzel
Since April 16th, 2017, our new #NPTech News daily newsletter goes out every day, except Sundays, to our subscribers at 10 am. Here are the Top 5 most read stories from last week. The most important piece curating content daily is the discovery of relevant content. The Nuzzel app helps me quickly what sites we follow on […]
Increasing Your Social Media Visibility via Google, Facebook and Twitter
Let’s start with the understanding that the more efficiently you can connect with your target audience, the more successful your social media strategy will be; the higher your social media visibility. To maximize your efficiency you must first understand some basic concepts about Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Google is a search engine, not a Social […]
Donor Bill of Rights
So who is looking out for the donor? In 1993, the Association of Fundraising Professionals published the Donor Bill of Rights. In January, on NPTechProjects we published a blog post about our views on donor privacy. We state very clearly our view that a nonprofit organization has an obligation to be the stewards of the […]
National and Global Public Awareness & Giving Day 2017 as Google Calendar
Heather Mansfield, Nonprofit Tech 4 Good, published the 2017 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar earlier this month. This took a lot of work! And it will save you a lot of time of research for planning your nonprofit activism and community outreach on Twitter & Instagram for this year! We created a Google Sheet and uploaded […]
WordCamp US Session Picks for Nonprofits – Live-streaming from Philadelphia
As a Floridian weather wimp, I prefer to stay in Florida for the Winter. As much as I would enjoy meeting fellow WordPress evangelists, developers and educators and geek-out over Rest API or the Customizer at WordCamp US in Philadelphia, I prefer to be an armchair WordCamper, armed with my Chromecast and a Livestream ticket. WordCamp […]
Google Index Goes Mobile First. Soon.
Google announced in early November that they would index mobile pages first. And only as plan B, they will index desktop version of websites. TL;DR: If you already have a responsive website and the content on both versions are the same, you don’t have to do anything. If you serve mobile visitors a stripped down version, and […]
Google: go HTTPS or go home
Last month, my partner in Relevanza, Steve Hart, wrote about Google’s push for a secure website on Relevanza Blog. To force website developers to a more secure online status the world’s most popular browser, Chrome, will be a tool for Google: go HTTPS or go home. Google will begin in January to warn internet users […]
Thinking about organizing tech training for your staff? TechSoup has the right course for you!
More and more, nonprofit organization are run on technology in all different ways. A lot of small organization have major functions staff with volunteers with different levels of technology education. Organizations will need to make space for tech training of staff and volunteer. TechSoup just unveiled a new online learning system and published the first […]