article thumbnail

Adobe Absolute Beginners Courses: Go from Design Doldrums to Design Delights!

Tech Soup

If you answered yes to any (or all) of these, you are in the design doldrums. In the nonprofit and library world, it's not uncommon for staff — from management to service delivery team to volunteers — to be tasked with designing handouts, board presentations, or annual reports. Don't despair; we can help!

Adobe 36
article thumbnail

8 Fantastic Facilitation Playbooks for Designing Productive Nonprofit Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether our meeting is useless or valuable depends on how we design, facilitate, and follow up. Meeting design is more than just agenda planning or identifying topics. You also need to establish meeting norms or rules of engagement and then design and facilitate the process to get results.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Nonprofits, Get Your License to Design!

Tech Soup

Go from zero to 60 — or at least gather enough speed to get on the highway entrance — with our Design for Nondesigner course series. Get your design driver's license by taking a few of TechSoup's online design courses. identify and apply standard processes for creating visually appealing and effective design.

License 65
article thumbnail

Learn Design Basics and Build Brand Guidelines for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Do the words "design" and "brand guidelines" make your toes curl and teeth grind? Does design lingo make you think you need to hire a professional designer or go to design school? The course will also walk you through creating a brand book for your nonprofit or library. Learn design basics.

article thumbnail

New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings.

article thumbnail

Web Design Resources from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup

In the spirit of TechSoup's new look , we've compiled a list of resources and products from around our global network on website design, planning, and management. Design and Multimedia. A well-designed website doesn't require a large budget and a professional design team.

Global 55
article thumbnail

The Magnificent Seven: Great WordPress Features Worth Checking Out

Byte Technology

Speaking of widgets, even WordPress beginners are aware of how easy it is to drag and drop them into their sidebars. Visit your Media Library and select an image, then click on the Edit Image button. Sidebars Simplified. But it’s not always easy to do so with a standard mouse or laptop trackpad. Secret Options for Bloggers.

WordPress 100