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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

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Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

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As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. What is your techniques or process visualizing data? Establish the underlying coordinates. Map the data. Draw a conclusion.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

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In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.” ” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. Development.

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Reflections from Independent Sector and Blackbaud Conferences

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Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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National Study Reveals: Digital and Social Media Are Delivering Results for Arts Organizations

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Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. Arts organizations are not alone in this. What are they learning from their experiments?

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The Dance Floor and The Balcony Social Media Training

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Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .