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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 25, 2017
Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 22, 2013
We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! A quick focus on the solutions without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 20, 2013
One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it. ” The green ugly doll has accompanied me around the world and has been in the hands of many people who work for NGOs and social change.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 20, 2009
On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 28, 2018
Opening Exercise. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 9, 2013
The opening keynote by Hallie Preskill, Managing Director, FSG talked about the trends setting the stage for new evaluation methods, but also cautioned that these methods would not replace traditional methods. Brennan noted that when a program that is trying change a system is in this stage – the logic model is not the navigational star.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 18, 2014
A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques.
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