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Meet TechSoup New Zealand in the exhibit hall at these one-day events where you will learn the essentials of nonprofit knowledge necessary to perform your job effectively and confidently. This is your chance to immerse yourself in a full day's learning at an incredibly affordable price.  

Organisations across the community sector are reporting major changes and uncertainty  in their funding, and this is the  number one priority in any survey of organisation's  needs.  It has always been a high priority topic, but changes in Government policies, greater demands on philanthropic trusts and donors has created increased pressure for many.

Digital storytelling includes videos, photos and interactive ways we share information about meaningful endeavours. Here's how SlideRocket can be used to tell your story. Join Evonne Heyning, Interactive Producer at TechSoup Global in San Francisco as she shared how their social media team uses SlideRocket for sharing interactive presentations and media across offices. Topics included transmedia campaigns for causes, dynamic interactive presentations and live events, integrating social media discoveries along with the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge, an annual video and photo campaign. Original slides can be found at http://portal.sliderocket.com/TechSoup/slidestory

If your not-for-profit needs to set up a basic computer network, this webinar will take you through how to set up an organisational network.

Volunteers are important partners to any not-for-profit organisation. They serve by contributing time, talent or treasure. Volunteers can also share their experiences and create a positive word of mouth in the community for your organisation. As they are a valuable resource to the organisation, you need to make sure you recruit the right volunteers and have the right strategies to retain them.  This presentation will provide an introduction to volunteer recruitment and management. It will equip you to identify actions in the development of the detailed volunteer management action plan for your not-for-profit organisation and to improve an existing or start-up program. Key learning outcomes: 

The first Service Pack for the latest versions of Office, SharePoint and Exchange are now available for download.

Since the emergence of social media as a marketing method, it has been suggested that email marketing is no longer relevant or effective – this is not so! Used correctly, email marketing is an incredibly valuable component of your digital marketing toolkit to communicate with and encourage action from your database.

In this webinar:  Learn the different corporate purses to tap into The key consumer and corporate trends that are pushing corporates to partner with charities The opportunities and risks A robust strategy for success Inspiring case study Readiness checklist Key learning outcome : What you need to do to be successful and how to sell this to your board

Are you thinking of using SharePoint in your organisation but would like to know more about it first? Or maybe you already have SharePoint but unsure how to use it to its full potential? Join us as we explore three SharePoint features that you can customise to dramatically improve your team's collaboration and productivity.

Join this free webinar and determine what services you are actually providing, how to structure your accounting system to get the information you need, how to report on the profitability of your activities and more. The webinar will highlight lessons from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) rollout.

In this webinar Tony Nissen will highlight cloud computing technologies not-for-profit organisations of all sizes are currently leveraging to become more efficient as well as provide you with two real-world case studies of organisations who are already reaping the benefits of embracing a mobility driven strategy.

Upgrading out-of-date infrastructure and making better use of online media are top priorities for Australian and New Zealand not-for-profits in their efforts to keep up in the digital age.

Fundraising, whether it be crowdfunding, pitching to investors, or applying to grants, is fundamentally about storytelling. This session will help you identify how you can use the power of storytelling to engage with supporters and rally your community to raise funds for your project. It will also help you identify how you can produce stories about your organisation without a big budget or expensive equipment.  Key learning objectives:  An overview of various types of fundraising where storytelling can be used (crowdfunding, online portals, grant applications etc)  Identifying the most powerful stories to tell which motivate donors and supporters  Understanding your audience  How to source and produce content for fundraising  Case studies Q&A  About the presenters – Mikey Leung and Natasha Akib

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Preparing financial reports to cater for the requirements of Board members, whose experience and financial knowledge is usually varied, can be quite daunting for many handed this task. This webinar is ideal for those with little or no bookkeeping or accounting knowledge who are keen to get a better handle on key financial reports including budgeting and cashflow options for their Board, delivered in an easy to understand presentation. We will go through the foundations of good reporting, through their key components, finishing with a short presentation on timesaving tools available through Connecting Up. If you want to ease what many consider a painful experience, register for this informative session on presenting financial reports for your Board. This webinar will help you understand the fundamentals of presenting financial reports: 

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Grants are a very important source of funds for most not-for-profits. Billions of dollars are provided every year by local, state and federal governments, as well as philanthropic, community and corporate trusts and foundations. The trick is knowing how to set yourself up for success. As grants are such a valuable resource, you need to ensure that you use your time wisely and that the fit is right between the project for which you want funds and the grants program funding parameters.

With YouTube for Nonprofits now available in Australia and New Zealand, register for this webinar to find out more about how it can help your organisation.

Crowdfunding is about building your network, breaking away from gatekeepers, overcoming territorial barriers and getting that cash to help launch your passion project or great idea into reality.  Key learning objectives:

Picture this: You are sitting around the table at the end of your management meeting and your CEO reminds you all that the annual performance reviews are due next month.  The range of reactions from the managers range from eye rolling, huffing and puffing, outward groans, through to disbelief that another year has passed by so quickly.  This is then followed by furtive glances into work diaries wondering how they are supposed to fit in one hour one-to-one conversations with all their direct reports, not to mention the preparation time required and dreading that one conversation with their ‘problem employee’.  The meeting has now ended on a sour note and everyone shuffles out of the room - and that’s just the managers!