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JULY 26, 2023

Consider adding a five- to 10-minute buffer period before your meeting to prepare the room, login to your virtual meeting software, and set up audio-visual (A/V) technology before your participants arrive. In this case, you may want to grab enough power strips to comfortably accommodate everyone’s laptops and phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” 1. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. Since the meeting was taking place in Los Angeles, FFOG was graciously allowed me to present remotely with Liz Karlin. In the past, I have presented remotely using skype audio and video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Why not end the meeting early? In addition, we should always question our assumption of the need for a one hour meeting, why not book in 30 minute or 45 minute meeting intervals? There were tons of questions in general about meetings, many about how to change an organization’s meeting culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. You can combine this with asking the audience for “out-loud” questions as well.

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