Emerging Tech Trends and Their Impact on Social Good

Members $125/Non-members $250
Registration Dates

NTEN courses run for one week and are offered twice a year.

This session will help your org better understand and navigate this new future to assess which new technologies are likely to have the greatest impact on your mission and those you serve.
– Instructor Cheryl Contee

Course Overview

Thought Leadership

We’ll brainstorm how these trends can be used to benefit communication across the board

Analyzing

Participants will learn how to analyze tech trends and weigh pros and cons for usage in their organizations to begin planning for the future.

Communications

This session will include tips and tricks for how you can leverage new tech today to turbocharge your org’s impact, outreach and fundraising.

Description

Emerging tech trends such as AI, bots, livestreaming, deepfake videos, influencer/creator culture, and the “internet of things” are changing the world we live in. Tik Tok already has 500 million users, over half as many as Instagram. This session can help you understand what’s coming next by providing a high-level overview of emerging tech trends. We’ll examine thoughts on what’s relevant for nonprofit organizations and how you can navigate or even take advantage of coming innovations to propel your organization’s mission.

We’ll discuss how trends will affect our ability to connect and communicate, and how they’ll impact causes and campaigns. We’ll dispel myths and incorrect theories about emerging tech and tell you what you need to know to begin recalibrating in advance of the next tech wave.

Presenters

Cheryl Contee

Founder + Chair
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Cheryl Contee is the award-winning CEO of the digital agency Do Big Things, a diverse team that is using new narrative and new tech for causes and campaigns to create global change in a new era. Cheryl is the author of Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success, available on Amazon. Previously, Cheryl was CEO of Fission Strategy, which brought Silicon Valley startup culture to the world’s leading causes and campaigns. She’s the co-founder of Attentive.ly, the first tech startup with a black female founder to be acquired by a NASDAQ company, the National Board Chair for Netroots Nation, and a proud co-founder of #YesWeCode.

Blended courses run for one week and offer a mix of self-paced and live events to offer both the flexibility you need with the personal connection you want.
Pre-Work (Readings & Quiz)
Homework
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Live Event

Recording Available
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20-30 mins (Self-Paced)
90min
20-30 mins (Self-Paced)

Pre-Work

Several relevant articles will establish key concepts and ideas as a primer to the live event, and help you to identify questions and topics you want to explore further.

Knowledge Check

A brief quiz will reinforce what you've learned so far. Don't stress - it isn't pass/fail - it is just to help you remember and distill the concepts you read in the pre-work.

Live Event

This is a 90-minute live captioned online training with opportunities to interact with the presenter and your peers. And if you can't make the live session, you'll be able to access a captioned recording.

Homework

Faculty, themselves experts with a wealth of nonprofit experience, have created exercises that will reinforce what you've learned and give you actionable steps to improving your organization.

Earn While You Learn - Professional Credits

In addition to our own Nonprofit Technology Professional Certificate, NTEN is an approved provider for a number of other professional credentials programs. This course qualifies for the following credits:

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NTEN Professional Certificate

CFRE

CAE