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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Facilitated listening is made up of a number of techniques described in more detail in the book. This includes: 1.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training.

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Teaching language models to reason algorithmically

Google Research AI blog

For example, LLMs are able to perform simple arithmetic operations when numbers are small, but struggle to perform with large numbers. In “ Teaching Algorithmic Reasoning via In-Context Learning ”, we describe an approach that leverages in-context learning to enable algorithmic reasoning capabilities in LLMs.

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A scientific guide to writing great headlines on Twitter, Facebook and your blog

The Next Web

Whilst we have some specific techniques that we are using for our own postings and article headlines every day, I thought looking at the most cutting edge research is definitely required. Here are the top three ones: Ask for a download: Example: According to Twitter, this will increase your clicks by an average of 13 percent.

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Here’s an example where I calculated the mean, median, and standard deviation of the age of people who were served by a nonprofit organization.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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7 Tips To Help You Focus In Age of Distraction: Are You Content Fried!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content. For those of us who work on social media and networks, “content fried” is an occupational hazard.

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