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Meta-funded program teaches tweens about online exploitation

Mashable Tech

Meta announced Tuesday the launch of curriculum designed to help middle schoolers spot and avoid online exploitation, including a technique commonly known as sextortion. The content offers videos, scripted lesson plans, and interactive classroom activities. Parents and educators have a new tool in the fight against online exploitation.

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The most influential design book you’ve never heard of

Fast Company Tech

During this time, he published a simple manual, called Lettering , which laid out his approach to crafting letterforms, letting students learn about proper technique and trace and copy letters directly inside the book. Walter Kch was a calligrapher and educator at the Zrich School of Arts and Crafts in the late 30s and 40s.

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Learn to work with Windows PowerShell for less than $4 a course with this bundle

Mashable Tech

Master PowerShell and receive certificates of completion from these six courses Let PowerShell teach you the ins and outs of automation, PowerShell scripting, and more with these six courses taught by established IT professional Vijay Saini.

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End-of-Year Giving Campaign: 13 Successful (Yet Underutilized) Strategies

CauseVox

By using community-driven fundraising techniques, such as peer-to-peer fundraising , making phone calls, sharing the campaign online, connecting you with prospective donors, or using their community connections to broaden your campaign’s scope, your board can kickstart the fundraising efforts.

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How to Run Successful Phone-A-Thons [+ Sample Script]

Donorbox

In this article, we’ll walk you through the basics of this classic fundraising technique. We’ll also provide 7 steps to planning and running your own […] The post How to Run Successful Phone-A-Thons [+ Sample Script] appeared first on Nonprofit Blog. There’s a reason it has stuck around for so long!

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3 useful tips to help your early stage startup acquire paying enterprise customers

The Next Web

At Scripted , we’ve been able to acquire almost 1,000 paying business customers without hiring a single outside sales representative. The big takeaway on this technique – do not give up after one email. I hope some of these tips help, and please feel free to reach out to me if I can shed more light on some of these techniques.

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Jonny Goldstein's Shooting Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm pleased to present my fourth installment in my interview series with famous video bloggers about video blogging techniques that nonprofits or others might use. When I first started to make video blog posts, I had no idea how much my shooting techniques would impact the amount of time I would have to spend editing. Click to play.