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July Online Training Opportunities – FREE

Check out the Professional Development Calendar for more information and to register for the following FREE online training opportunities:

ADVOCACY

July 10: Social Media 101 for Nonprofits (Firespring)
July 11: How to get media coverage for your small nonprofit (The Good Partnership)
July 19: Digital PR Basics for Nonprofits – How to Get Visibility for Your Cause (Bloomerang)
July 19: Library value: student success, research outcomes & collection impact (Library Connect)
July 19: How to Master Your Tribute Book Layout (Charity How To)

ASSESSMENT & PLANNING

July 17: Laying Out the Welcome Mat: Asset Mapping to Better Serve the Immigrant Community (WebJunction and TechSoup for Libraries)
July 17: How Safe Is Your Data (GovLoop Training)
July 17: Measuring Success: How to Strategically Assess Your Program (VolunteerMatch)
July 18: Beyond Surveys: How to Measure Outcomes Using Alternative Data Collection Methods (Public Library Association)
July 24: Be a Data Champion at Your Library (Infopeople)
July 24: How to do Big Marketing on a Shoestring Budget (Wild Apricot)
July 25: NCompass Live: Emergency and Disaster Response Planning for Libraries (Nebraska Library Commission)
July 26: Marketing strategy, marketing plan and marketing tactics: Why you need all 3! (OCLC)

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

July 11: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Promote Framework Principles Adoption, Student Engagement and Active Learning (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
July 18: Analytics and Accessibility (DigitalGov)
July 25: AAC Language Modeling (Accessible Technology Coalition)

CAREERS

July 18: Impromptu Leadership — How Women Can Seize Spontaneous Moments to Lead (American Management Association)
July 26: Wake Up! Are you sleepwalking your way through the day? (Colorado State Library)

CHILDREN & TEENS

July 9: Code Club for Small & Rural Public Libraries Application (Prenda)
July 12: Youth Engagement & Leadership (YALSA)

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT

July 3: Collection Development Made Easier with Ingram (Nebraska Library Commission)
July 10: Small-Press Speed-Dating Extravaganza! (Booklist)
July 11: The Art of Collections Management Technology (Lyrasis)

COMMUNICATION

July 10: Social Media 101 for Nonprofits (Firespring)
July 11: How to Keep All Those New Donors You Worked So Hard to Get (Productive Fundraising)
July 11: How to get media coverage for your small nonprofit (The Good Partnership)
July 12: Be Found: The Secrets of SEO for Nonprofits (Firespring)
July 12: Be CALM not BUSY: How to Manage Your Nonprofit’s Communications (Firespring)
July 12: An Inside Look at How the FBI Develops Engaging Video (DigitalGov)
July 13: Making Difficult Conversations Easy (Effectiveness Institute)
July 18: Impromptu Leadership — How Women Can Seize Spontaneous Moments to Lead (American Management Association)
July 18: Effectively Communicating in the Moment (American Management Association)
July 19: Digital PR Basics for Nonprofits – How to Get Visibility for Your Cause (Bloomerang)

DIGITAL RESOURCES

July 10: Trustworthy Digital Repositories (Federal Depository Library Program)
July 12: Google Earth Web: Oh the Places You Can Go (Teachers First)
July12: Choose Your Own Adventure with Google Slides (Teachers First)
July 19: Digitization 101 (North Dakota State Library)

DATABASES & eRESOURCES

July 10: Trustworthy Digital Repositories (Federal Depository Library Program)
July 25: Environmental Health & Toxicology Resources for the Public and Professionals (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)

DEVELOPMENT & MANAGING CHANGE

July 11: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Promote Framework Principles Adoption, Student Engagement and Active Learning (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
July 17: How and Why Libraries Should Move to HTTPS (TechSoup)
July 26: The Tech Effect: Discover the Simple Solution that 1000s of Organizations Are Using to Grow Membership In Today’s World (Wild Apricot)
July 26: Marketing strategy, marketing plan and marketing tactics: Why you need all 3! (OCLC)

FUNDRAISING

July 11: IMPROV(e) Your Business Workshop Series (Nonprofit hub)
July 11 How to Keep All Those New Donors You Worked So Hard to Get (Productive Fundraising)
July 11: Introduction to Finding Grants (GrantSpace)
July 12: Perfecting your Pitch: How to Successfully tell your Story to the Media (Nonprofit hub)
July 12: An Introduction to Online Fundraising for Small and Medium-Sizing Nonprofits (Charity How To)
July 18: Introduction to Proposal Writing (GrantSpace)
July 19: Turn Your Website Into a Membership Growth Engine (Wild Apricot)
July 19: How to Master Your Tribute Book Layout (Charity How To)
July 24: Apps, Zaps, Data Maps: How Nonprofits Can Navigate the Software Integration World (GuideStar)
July 24: How to do Big Marketing on a Shoestring Budget (Wild Apricot)
July 25: Beyond social media: Identifying and mobilizing supporters with data (Nonprofit Hub)
July 25: Introduction to Project Budgets (GrantSpace)
July 25: Grant Writing 101: Basics for Programming Librarians (Programming Librarian)
July 26: The Tech Effect: Discover the Simple Solution that 1000s of Organizations Are Using to Grow Membership In Today’s World (Wild Apricot)

LEGAL

July 27: Legally Using Video in Training (Training Magazine Network)

LIBRARY SPACES

July 10: First Tuesdays: Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite (your library) (Washington State Library)
July 24: Starting Your Markerspace (edWeb)

MANAGEMENT

July 10: Mindful Leadership: Govie Edition (GovLoop Training)
July 11: Strategic Thinking (American Management Association)
July 17: How Safe Is Your Data (GovLoop Training)
July 18: Impromptu Leadership — How Women Can Seize Spontaneous Moments to Lead (American Management Association)
July 18: Academic Librarians and Low Morale Development (Georgia Library Association)
July 26: FranklinCovey’s 7 Habits Seminar (American Management Association)

OUTREACH & PARTNERSHIPS

July 12: Youth Engagement & Leadership (YALSA)
July 17: Laying Out the Welcome Mat: Asset Mapping to Better Serve the Immigrant Community (WebJunction and TechSoup for Libraries)
July 18: NCompass Live: Many Languages, Many Cultures: Responding to Diverse Health Information Needs (Nebraska Library Commission)
July 24: Free Resources for Medicare and Medicare Rights (KEPRO-BFCC-QIO)
July 26: When I’m 64: Financial Literacy Resources for Those Nearing and in Retirement (WebJunction)

PROGRAMMING

July 9: Code Club for Small & Rural Public Libraries Application (Prenda)
July 19: Introducing MakeCode from Microsoft (Washington State Library)
July 25: Fresh Food, Fresh Thinking: An Innovative Approach to Youth Development and Learning in Rural Communities (Public Library Association)
July 26: When I’m 64: Financial Literacy Resources for Those Nearing and in Retirement (WebJunction)

READER’S ADVISORY

July 10: Small-Press Speed-Dating Extravaganza! (Booklist)

REFERENCE

July 11: NCompass Live: WebJunction: The Learning Place for Libraries (Nebraska Library Commission)
July 11: Make Your Smartphone a Depository Library (Federal Depository Library Program)
July 19: The Technology Reference Interview (Utah State Library)
July 19: USGS Library Materials for Natural Hazards (Federal Depository Library Program)
July 24: Free Resources for Medicare and Medicare Rights (KEPRO-BFCC-QIO)
July 24: Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … Providing Health Information Services STAT (North Carolina Library Association)
July 25: Beginning Genealogical Research at the National Archives (Federal Depository Library Program)
July 25: Environmental Health & Toxicology Resources for the Public and Professionals (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
July 26: When I’m 64: Financial Literacy Resources for Those Nearing and in Retirement (WebJunction)
July 31: Making Sense of Numbers; Understanding Risks and Benefits (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)

SCHOOL LIBRARIES

July 11: Supporting the Turquoise Wedge with Mirrors and Windows in the School Library Collection (Follett)
July 11: Hidden Treasures: Engaging and Free Resources from TeachersFirst (Teachers First)
July 12: Personalizing Learning: Empowering Students to Use Data to Drive Their Own Learning (edWeb)
July 12: Google Earth Web: Oh the Places You Can Go (Teachers First)
July 12: World Class: How to Build a 21st Century School System (Alliance for Excellent Education)
July12: Choose Your Own Adventure with Google Slides (Teachers First)
July 17: Europe’s Tough New Data-Privacy Law: Breaking Down GDPR for Companies (Education Week)
July 19: Introducing MakeCode from Microsoft (Washington State Library)
July 24: Starting Your Markerspace (edWeb)
July 24: Engage & Inspire: Podcasting in the Classroom (Teachers First)
July 25: Thinking in Action: The Power of Digital Literacy (edWeb)
July 26: Cross-Curricular Instructional Principles to Prepare More ELA Students for AP and College (Education Week)

TECHNOLOGY

July 18: Dorobekindsider Live: IT Modernization in the Age of Digital Transformation (GovLoop Training)
July 19: Digitization 101 (North Dakota State Library)

TRAINING & INSTRUCTION

July 19: The Technology Reference Interview (Utah State Library)
July 19: Memorializing Subject Matter Experts: Techniques to Converting Subject Matter Expertise to High-Performing Live & On-Demand Video Learning Assets (Training Magazine Network)
July 24: Brain-Based Presenting: Getting the Brain to Pay Attention (InSync Training)

VOLUNTEERS

July 10: The New Volunteer Manager’s Toolkit (VolunteerMatch)
July 12: Social Media and Volunteer Engagement (VolunteerMatch)
July 17: Measuring Success: How to Strategically Assess Your Program (VolunteerMatch)

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