Kyla Hunt's blog

On Thursday, April 26 at 11 a.m. Pacific time, we are holding our second webinar in collaboration with the Foundation Center, Toolkit Essentials: Finding Funders for Your Cause. This webinar is designed to answer one of the most frequently asked question at the Foundation Center: “How do I find funders that are interested in my cause?”

Are you working at a public library or a nonprofit interested in receiving TechSoup product donations and discounts, and are wondering how to get started? We're happy to announce that we now have three short videos designed to guide you through TechSoup's process of registration and eligibility.

The three videos, available on the TechSoup YouTube page:

On January 19, I had the pleasure of assisting in our app-inspired webinar, App It Up! You can now view a recording of the webinar on YouTube.

If you were one of the many people who attended our webinar Training an Invisible Audience: Delivering Effective Webinars, I'd like to thank you for being such an eager and inquisitive audience. I was struck by the many locations of the registrants (including more than 10 countries!), as well as the many reasons that people hold webinars, including parenting classes, genealogy courses, and student engagement.

This week I had the pleasure of listening to several webinars that were part of the Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference. Even before I get to the content, let me say that I was incredibly impressed at the amount of presenters contributing to this global event. My kudos goes out to Library 2.0 and The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University for organizing this impressive virtual experience.

As Webinar Program Manager for TechSoup Global, I am often asked to provide information and insight about various webinar tools. I wanted to take an opportunity to talk about some tools that I've used, and some that I've just heard about, in the case that your organization is considering providing webinars or online conferencing.

While at the Association of Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) Annual Conference last weekend, I saw a lot of speakers who provided just as many great resources. Many of these resources were geared towards helping librarians assist their patrons with computers and technology.

Trying to find a tool that allows you to create great, flexible surveys for your organization? Check out the upcoming webinar, FluidSurveys Demo for TechSoup, on Tuesday, September 20, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time.

Since FluidSurveys is a recent addition to TechSoup's catalog of donated products, so we asked them if they'd do a live walk-through of their tool as a special introduction for our nonprofit and library audience.