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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text. second delay.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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6 Ways to Keep Corporate Partners Engaged During COVID-19

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These could include helping run your social media pages, assisting with data entry, or facilitating research projects. When COVID-19 shifted the majority of schools to an online learning environment, the nonprofit partnered with JBL , a company that specializes in audio equipment. Consider using livestream technology to run your event.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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How To Facilitate Effective Virtual Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Six Power Tips for Great Meetings in Today’s Virtual World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are responsible for planning and facilitating virtual meetings, here are some tips that’ll help you make your meetings more productive. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. Appoint a facilitator to function as traffic cop, spelling out the rules of engagement and calling on people when it’s their turn.

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Community Voices at Digital Engagement Event: Reflections on the Conversation

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At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Here’s what came out of each session: Session #1 Word Cloud: COMMUNITY. What’s of interest?

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