Online Training

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, social networking,oh my!  We’ll provide a hype-free look at what these tools are and how they might help with typical nonprofit goals.

How do you build a list of constituents truly interested in your cause? We’ll discuss a wide variety of techniques that can help, and how they all fit together.

What do website content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone actually do?  In this recorded seminar, we demo all four systems and compare them for typical nonprofit needs.

You've got data. We'll talk through the low cost tools and techniques to transform it into charts, graphs, and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action.

How do you choose a donor database that will support successful fundraising? The software is only half the story. In this recording of an online seminar, Fundraising technology strategist Robert Weiner walks through ten common mistakes that can prevent you from selecting the right database and managing it effectively.

Does your organization show up on the first page of results in search engines like Google or Yahoo? In this recordings of an online session, we’ll talk through the techniques that can help – from straightforward ones that anyone can do, to some of the structural and technical ones that can make a big difference.
 

How do you take your current photos - or find inexpensive photos or illustrations online - and convert them into great graphics for your website? We'll talk through methods to acquire good material, principles of transforming them into great web-ready images, and the inexpensive software packages that can help you whip them into shape.

How do social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn work?  This recording of an online seminar talks through what these sites are, what’s worth doing, and how you make the most of the medium.

There’s a plethora of options for groups who want to collaborate remotely:  video conferencing, webinars, email discussion lists, social networks, project management tools, online communities, blogs, wikis, and more.  What can each of these tools help you with, and how much investment will they take?  How do you choose what type of software is likely to work for your group?  We’ll walk through your choices for high level types of software, along with a few potential vendors for each type.

 In this inaugural version of our half-hour long "Lunch and Learn" recordings, Laura Quinn walks through at a high level the types of software that can help with fundraising, from the basics to the more advanced, as covered by our Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits.

 You likely need to track many different kinds of constituents - donors, volunteers, clients, members, email subscribers, and many more.  What's more, many people fall into more than one of these buckets. Should you be tracking all those people in one database?  Many?  How can you bring order to all these different types of information to get a full picture of who you're working with and how?  This 10 minute interactive module walks you through the options for database systems and integration to help you decide what's best for you.

 Google Apps provides a compelling set of features - from email to calendars to a organizational portal to shared documents - that gives Outlook a run for its money at a fraction of the  cost.  We'll demo the main components of Google Apps, talk about administrating it as an organization, and show how it compares to Microsoft Outlook.  This session is geared for those familiar with Outlook who want an introduction to Google Apps.

 Perhaps you have a Facebook site, a blog, a Twitter account, or a YouTube channel.  Is it working? Is it worth the time?  How do you know?  We’ll walk through a framework -- including Views, Followers, Engagement, and Conversion -- and the tools that can help you gather the data, to allow you to analyze your strategy, strengthen what works and change what doesn’t.

 Does your organization have its technology priorities in the right order? This interactive eLearning course walks you through a solid plan for making good decisions for your organization’s infrastructure, hardware, and software. The course concludes with a self-assessment quiz to help examine your organization’s needs.