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Be Your Own Filter In the Global Brain

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Almost ten years ago, I used to teach a workshop called " Digital Information Coping Skills " for artists and arts organizations as part of a series of workshop on the theme of how to integrate the Internet into your (arts) organization's mission. I asked him, on Twitter, if he thought his brain had evolved. Photo by VaxZine.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. I was able to rearrange an area for viewing presentations slides and have enough space for participants to move around for full group exercises.

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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

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In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. 3 Key Takeaways from DevOps Dreamin’. Camaraderie is one of the best learning opportunities.

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Digital Storytelling at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013

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This April our 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge offers resources to sharpen your skills and an opportunity to enter your short video or five-image slide show by April 30 to win awesome prizes! And brain scans now show that when you tell a story that taps into your audience's emotions, their brains actually reflect your own.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. Depending on the learning objectives, you could even skip the slides altogether, or adapt them for a pre-work activity. This can be a mix of presentations by peers, with lots of facilitated discussion and interaction.