Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

He talks about the impact of too much information on the human brain and considers how the human brain may evolve over time as the Internet matures and the amount of digital information increases. Some neurons in my brain made me connect back to Shenk's book I attended NDN's New Audiences, New Tools Forum. He said no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? You need to engage the whole brain in learning. Click to see full size image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And just a couple of real quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out that recording as well as the slides later on. Well, let me take down my slides because they want to hear from you, not me. So are you ready for me to present my slides? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Depending on the learning objectives, you could even skip the slides altogether, or adapt them for a pre-work activity. As part of the planning, it might be a good idea to have the slides so participants can organize their thoughts and prepare, but then transform it into an conversation by ditching the slides for the actual webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network. After hearing a story from a peer.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. If you have the slides already, I’m going to ask you to try to not read along because you can only either listen or read, not both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. " Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money. Here's a brain dump of some key points. Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. Engagement= Interaction + Attention. What do they click on?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And I’ll be sending out the recording, as well as the slides later on today. You should actually already have the slides. Steven: bring up those beautiful slides. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. She’ll tell you about that.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

It will also have the slides. So I’m going to pipe down and I’ll stop sharing my screen here, Maryanne, and I’ll let you bring up your slides if you want. So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. Now, there’s not a ton of content on these slides.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

U3 distills itself into numerous forks ranging from tiny, low-memory neural networks that need to think for a long time but can be run in massive parallel populations to Goliath brains woven with millions of specialized experts, which think at lightning speeds but are spread across thousands of GPUs. U3s next goal is to spread.

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