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Volunteer Week: Orientation for Your Leadership

Greater Giving

Make it a Collaborative Learning Experience Instead of a traditional lecture, consider an interactive workshop format. This allows for open discussion, brainstorming, and knowledge sharing. Examples include who is in charge of volunteers at events, and how to thank volunteers for their service.

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How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. Based on what I observed and heard, yes!

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London Net Tuesday January - Resolutions for Learning

Amy Sample Ward

The first of the year is resolution time, so this will be a chance to make resolutions about your learning, and get quality feedback about how to make them happen! 6:15-7:00 - Learning discussion groups & idea sharing. 7:00-7:20 - Collaborative learning grid & wrap up. Agenda : 5:30-6:00 - Networking.

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Great reads from around the web on April 28th

Amy Sample Ward

We hope to establish a collaborative learning community — with plenty of space for ideas and wisdom of the field. We aim to work together to create a vision for meeting the education and learning needs of people in our field. ."

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most of the projects with these programs were carried out collaboratively; so I had a chance to see how different kinds of organizations, from grassroots to national, operate. It focused on collaborative e-learning. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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NpTech Tag Roundup: Election Day, NPTech Blog Chatter, and Tool Talk

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks. Social Edge concludes its online discussion about Second Life - no summary but lots of pointers to nonprofit and social change activities including a few here , here , here , here , and here.

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