I’m really excited to be leading an online course on Google Apps for Business, which starts tomorrow. It’ll be every Tuesday for the next five weeks and starts at 11 AM PT.
Sign up and participate for free at http://training.oreilly.com/googleapps/. The course is going to be highly interactive, and O’Reilly is offering a pretty delicious bundle of free content to participants.
The course is being produced by creativeLIVE in partnership with O’Reilly Media, and we’re going to cover the full range of capabilites of Google Apps that are of interest to businesses of all sizes.
I’ve been putting the course together over the past couple of months with my friend, editor, and co-host Brian Sawyer, along with author, visionary, and Head Firsty extraordinaire Beth Robson. It’s going to be a blast… hope you can join us!
Wow, I just finished reading Craig Mod‘s fascinating post on using Kickstarter to raise funds to reprint his book. Everyone who works in fundraising should check it out.
I’d like to add a few points about why this and other Kickstarter projects are such good fundraising opportunities and how these successes look next to classic nonprofit fundraising techniques. Continue reading →
Several weeks ago my illustrious friend the nonprofit capacity building consultant extraordinaire Christie Lewis suggested that I get in touch with the nice people at the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington to talk about nonprofit analytics, and since then I’ve given two presentations to their development roundtable on how to use analytics for fundraising. Continue reading →
Recently O’Reilly released my new book, Head First Excel. The book goes into advanced topics in Excel but is really about teaching Excel beginners how to use the software to solve big problems. Continue reading →
Several weeks back I was thinking about how the Bible is taught at seminaries, and on a lark I decided to check out the website of a big school 200 miles from my apartment in Texas: Dallas Theological Seminary. I wondered, who are the people who teach Bible here? As I looked through their bios, something surprised me. Continue reading →
Like Scott Berkun, I was a philosophy major (and write for O’Reilly), so I was excited to see his Ignite talk on what you need to know about philosophy. It doesn’t hit the points that I’d necessarily make, but it’s worth checking out, as no doubt will be his promised forthcoming blog entry on the subject.
My two cents: What everyone wants to do is kick ass, so here’s how to do it — philosophically — in three simple steps. Continue reading →
During most of the go-go 2000s I lived in the epicenter of the housing boom, Sarasota, FL, where we know a thing or two about debt (and nonprofit debt). So I wasn’t at all surprised to read this morning’s New York Times article about the Harlem School of the Arts, which over the course of years ran up debt and executive pay simultaneously, putting the organization on a path to oblivion. Continue reading →
Thanks again to everyone who joined yesterday for my pivot table webinar hosted by O’Reilly.
Here are the slides, which include web links, and here is the data. Stay on the lookout for a video of the presentation itself, which should be up soon.
(These slides correct my description of tabular data, which I’d called “2×2″ when I meant “2D”.) Thank you for the comments!
Because I wrote a book on data analysis and am currently finishing a book on Excel and a introductory video series on R for O’Reilly (I’ll tweet the link when I have one), I get asked this question pretty frequently. Generally the person asking this question knows enough Excel to get by and has never really looked at R. Continue reading →
